I didnt know about this case at all. And it had some very recent events attributed to it too as the teacher involved died a few years ago. It’s mental to think this was the way things were back then.
Reading this article about the events and her life
going by the surnames of the busy body parents, I would safely say they were on the Kilkenny side of the river. There is also another name mentioned in there that would be very close to some on this site too that I wouldnt have realised either. 2 pubs in Ross that I never knew existed either.
Dismissing her appeal in the Circuit Court, Judge Noel Ryan famously claimed that the nuns had been too lenient with her. Elsewhere in the world, women were condemned to death for this sort of offence, he said. Not that he agreed with it, he added.
Every single block of the Fastnet lighthouse was laid by the same fella, James Kavanagh. He was also responsible for loads of the lighthouses around Ireland.
Is there anyone living there? They built a load of empty cities there a few years ago and no one in em.
As an aside the Chinese one child policy has led to such a significant imbalance of men and women that Chinese families can’t afford the dowry anymore so they are remortgaging the houses the whole lot to get them married off. A good looking woman is away in a hack.
Rural Chinese are so indebted from it that they are aborting the boys now to get the pay off from the girls. #economicincentives