IRELAND
Offaly Express
Justin Kelly
4 Apr 2017
Email: justin.kelly@iconicnews.ie
Daingean native, William Gorry, has opened to the Offaly Express up about his horrifying experiences at the Mount Carmel Industrial School in Moate, Co. Westmeath in the 1970s.
The Offaly man now lives in Kilmainham, Dublin, and says, “I owe it to others and the public to admit what went on in Mount Carmel, which left many children like me facing many difficulties in our adult lives.”
William was born into a large family in Daingean, Co. Offaly, and had seven brothers and five sisters. He told the Offaly Express that with such a large family, his mother and father were ‘under financial pressure as they tried to look after us all’. He says a social worker was involved but insisted that there was no assistance given by the Midland Health Board.
“We had no running water, electricity, toilet facilities or heating, and we had to carry water from a well, use tilly lamps for lighting and open fire places for heat,” he recalled.
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