UNITED STATES
Christian Today
James Macintyre 08 March 2017
A right-wing Catholic commentator has dismissed the Tuam mother and baby home atrocity as ‘fake news’, as the Irish Prime Minister said the home was a ‘chamber of horrors’.
Bill Donohue of the Catholic League in New York contradicted bishops as well as politicians by writing that accounts of up to 800 dead babies at the home in County Galway are a ‘lie’ and a ‘hoax’.
‘It was a lie in 2014 and it is a lie in 2017,’ he said. ‘There is no evidence of a mass grave outside a home for unmarried women operated by nuns in Tuam, Ireland, near Galway, in the 20th century. The hoax is now back again, and an obliging media are running with the story as if it were true.’
The comments come as the Irish Taoiseach Enda Kenny said the discovery represented a mass grave and ‘a social and cultural sepulchre’.
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