A chara, – Róisín Ingle clearly intended to remind readers that the horrors of institutional abuse in Ireland were not limited to correctional schools or deprived areas, but extended also to privileged and prestigious organisations (“Turns out Blackrock College was a world away from us Pill Hill girls”, Life, November 16th). Unfortunately, this sentiment was missed by about 100 light years. Her tone conveyed a sort of moral righteousness and haughty superciliousness. – Is mise,
CONOR MAGUIRE,
Dublin 4.
Sir, – I read, and re-read, Róisín Ingle’s reflections on her school days in proximity to Blackrock College in absolute bewilderment.
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How did she, or anyone on your editorial staff, think that it is appropriate to use the exposure of decades of sexual abuse in that school as some sort of excuse for a point-scoring exercise against “posher” boys who once made up a mean nickname for her own school? – Yours, etc,
Dr PADDY SMYTH,
Sandymount,
Dublin 4.
