Read your article online and download the PDF from your email or your account. That should never have been part of the tribunal. People in Granard are still reluctant to discuss Ann Lovett's death, re- flecting the continued belief that they were maligned in the media frenzy, but many people from around the country regret that a young unmarried mother had to die before social attitudes began to change.38. Initially, Lovett's death was ignored in the local media, which did not carry even an obit- uary. The Mental Health Reform are calling on the Government to spend the money for eating disorder services on eating disorder services. In the weeks following the eruption of the "X" case, opinion polls suggested that a majority of Irish people approved of abortion in limited circumstances, and politicians even broached the possibil- ity of introducing limited abortion services in Ireland. McCafferty described Hayes’ case as “medieval”: a young woman from a tiny village being questioned about how she conceived a child by a married man. News images provided by Press Association and Photocall Ireland unless otherwise stated. The most immediate source of antagonism was the fact that Lovett's death was reported at all. A measure of his temperament and attitudes to women in the Kerry Babies case is the judicial pronouncement made at its end by Justice Lynch. Nell McCafferty, A Woman to Blame: The Kery Babies Case (Dublin: Attic Press, 1985). Were the conditions under which Lovett gave birth and died any more or less moral than the fact that her pregnancy was "illegiti- mate"? The coverage of the tribunal in the national and local broadcast and print media enabled people all over Ireland not only to keep abreast of the latest develop- ments but also to participate in a national critique of the contem- porary Irish society that claimed to embrace "pro-life" principles even as it allowed newborn babies to die, and single women to give birth frightened, alone, and stigmatized. In spite of the apparent liberalism of the 1960s and 1970s, Ire- land remained a "Catholic country": the overwhelming majority of Irish people subscribed to the Catholic faith and regarded themselves as practicing catholic^.^ Most people also continued to accept the principle of Catholic moral authority, even if some men, and women in particular, were beginning to exercise an in- dividual conscience where their own sexual and reproductive ac- tivities were concerned. As its power waned and people were less afraid of confronting it, tales of clerical sexual abuse and the systematic cover-up of clerical sexual abuse trickled and then flooded out to damage its reputation and its authority irreparably. [12] Bus Éireann local route 111 between Cavan and Athboy (with onward connections to Trim and Dublin) serves Granard and operates four times a day each way, thrice each way on Saturdays and once each way on Sundays. Both mother and baby died. The local press inadvertently reinforced this impres- sion in their attempts to defend themselves: "Every week in every county in Ireland babies are born to young girls out of wedlock. During the 1992 "X case controversy, in which a fourteen-year-old girl initially was prevented from traveling to England to abort a pregnancy that resulted from rape, an anonymous source produced and sold T- shirts bearing the slogan, "Remember Ann Lovett.". The fact that Hayes was an un- trustworthy heroine did not diminish popular support for her; when she was attacked by the tribunal her neighbors stood solid- ly behind her, and this was due in part to the fact that, sexual transgressions aside, Hayes and her family were regarded as "re- spectable" in the community.

For more information on cookies please refer to our cookies policy. she had survived; if the boy had survived, what life would she have in Granard? Building on the McGee case of 1973 (against the 1935 ban on contraceptives), peo- ple were beginning to insist on an individual's right to privacy, even when that individual's behavior contravened Catholic teach- ings on sexual morality. From the start Hayes was an unlikely heroine. Both local newspapers pointed to the large turnout at her funeral, writing that it was the "largest ever seen in [the] area," as evidence of her popularity, and of the town's deep sad- ness over her death.9. 4. The surname Sheridan was first recorded in Granard in the 8th century.[2]. 34 years later, her protest lives on. Fora | Because, he told me uncomfortably, the then Minister and Department decided that it might frighten pregnant women who had already taken the drug and do more harm than good. Lovett went to the Virgin Mary, perhaps seeking comfort, and the Virp was powerless to help her: "I did not move./I didn't lift a finger to help her,/I didn't intercede with heaven,/nor whisper the charmed word in God's ear." The grisly discovery sparked a countywide investigation that reverberated throughout the na- tion. ON 14 APRIL 1984, the body of a newborn baby boy was found on White Strand beach at Caherciveen in Co Kerry. Hayes was "punished" by the tribunal for her flagrant disobedience of accepted moral codes, in other words for exercising an individual conscience in her practice of the faith. It brings me back to the Thalidomide scandal in the early 60s and an interview that I did 10 years later with the then Minister for Health, Erskine Childers. The language of the amendment was ambiguous in its protection of women's rights, appeared to value the potential life of the fetus more highly than the actual life of the mother, and suggested that referendum sup- porters still viewed married motherhood as a woman's most le- gitimate and important social f~nction.~. However, the tribunal would present, in frank and sometimes graphic detail, subjects that respectable Irish Catholics found difficult to discuss private- ly, much less publicly. It seems extraordinary that the Hayes family would pursue the issue once the charges against them had been dropped, particularly as their allegations of garda misconduct would have been almost impossible to prove. The first test of this new self-image came in the 1992 "X case, when controversy erupted over the right of a pregnant fourteen-year-old victim of sexual abuse to travel to Eng- land, with the full knowledge and support of her parents, for an abortion. There is a sense among them of womanhood itself being on trial here, and the traumatic echoes of the amendment debate in the recurring phrases of the legal and medical practitioners about sex and wombs and babies done to death.35. It brings me back to the Thalidomide scandal in the early 60s and an interview I did 10 years later with the then Minister for Health, Erskine Childers.

In all these cases there is no publicity, no media treat- ment, no television camera crews. They insisted that a constitutional amendment was the only way to preserve Ireland's distinctive moral foundation in the midst of a seculariz- ing trend within Irish society and a growing exposure to "foreign" cultural, political, and moral influences resulting from Ireland's entry in 1973 into the European Economic Community (now the European Union). Login via your In an extra- ordinary reversal of the initial decision in the "Xucase, the High Court ruled not only that the girl could travel to England for an abortion but also that she could be accompanied by staff of the state-funded agency to which she had been entrusted. Larry Donnelly looks at the how the highest court in America became “such a political hot potato”. Ann Lovett was the 15-year-old schoolgirl who 34 years ago, gave birth to her baby alone, lying in the rain, at a grotto to Our Lady in Granard, Co Longford. As in the death of Ann Lovett, the media played a leading role in articulating the diversity of responses to the Kerry babies affair. And that’s the pattern with secrets. JOANNE HAYES AND THE KERRY BABIES Ann Lovett's death was still a recent memory when, on April 14, 1984, the body of a newborn child washed ashore on a remote beach in Cahirciveen, County Kerry. In 1973 the governmentally established Commission on the Status of Women report- ed its findings, recommending government action to institute equality in job opportuni- ties and pay, and maternity leave, leading later that year to the abolishment of the ban on married women in the civil service. "26 Hayes finally crumbled under garda pressure and confessed to the murder of the Cahirciveen baby; shortly afterwards members of Hayes's family confessed to helping dispose of the body. It took us a long time to winkle all of this out because the Department was afraid of any admission that it might have been negligent.

She and her family confessed to the baby’s murder – but later withdrew their confessions and said that Joanne had given birth to a baby on the family farm. Whether drawing from the complex past or the shifting present, the pieces that appear in Feminist Studies raise social and political questions that intimately and significantly affect women and men around the world. The Catholics who wrote trusted God, not the priests or the doctors or the lawyers. Meáin Náisiúnta Seirbhíse Poiblí na hÉireann. Gardai persisted in the twins theory, suggesting that Hayes could have given birth to both babies through the rare process of superfecundation, whereby a woman is impregnated by two different men within a forty-eight-hour period. Of that 95 percent, 86 percent attended church weekly or more often, while less than 5 per- cent attended church yearly or never.

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