IRELAND
Irish Times
[with audio]
Lorna Siggins
“Everyday she’s on the boat
When it pulls out from the quay
Far from small town eyes she floats
Across the Irish Sea..”
Tuam band the Saw Doctors made reference to the State’s attitude to unintended pregnancy in the lyrics of their song Everyday.
The Bon Secours mother and babies home had been closed for 35 years when Leo Moran and Davy Carton wrote it, but Moran has never viewed attitudes to women as being particular to their town.
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