Colin Murphy: The ties that blind
Spotlight reminds us how we sometimes need outsiders to help us see the obvious
I remember occasionally noticing a rag-tag group protesting outside the Dáil, demanding “justice for Magdalenes”. This was around the time of the Ryan report, and the issue of institutional abuse (including in the Magdalene laundries) had been exhaustively ventilated in the media.
I couldn’t see that there was anything in it. After all, if there was, Mary Raftery, whose investigative work had driven much of the agenda on this, would have been on ...