when i was 13 days old in castlepollard, my mother and i we re in castlepollard, my mother and i wereerarms in were transferred and i was taken out of her arms in the hall by sister agnes and sent to the wards. notorious you‘d wards. she was told to go outside, sit on the wall and wait for her father to come collect her. i have never seen her since that day and i never will. you had this conversation with her. why you say there will not be another one? she made it clear she does not want anything to do with me. i kind of knew that anyway because social services contacted her many times over the years, or at least tried to. she was avoiding them. and she was never in any way shape or form proactive or open to contact over the years but i still felt i needed to know some of my natural family and some of them did want to know me when i contacted them and they were happy to meet with me. that she... she was talked into taking a phone call by her brother. why do you think she did not want to talk to you? she was too traumatised. she has a complete memory blackout of the time a form of sele

there is probably no more known about castlepollard than i knew about the mother and baby homes.ve been? the real scene was that it was a 75—bed maternity hospital with 145 cots. it was a great custom—built institution. standards were... in effect it was a cross between a maternity hospital for single mothers and low—to—medium security prison. the wards where the babies were kept were locked at night. the dormitories where the mothers were kept were locked at night. and there was one midwife at a time working in the place. there was no doctors or nurses. food was absolutely grim. it was a working farm. the girls were expected to work on the farm for, generally speaking, about two years, to supposedly repay the debt to the nuns for taking care of them, despite the fact the government was paying for their care. because these were women who would have been taken there by their own families. i would kind of have issues with that particular phrase now. ireland was, to all effect, a theocracy for a lot of this time, and the church ruled the roost. and families didn't really have much c