Daughter of Magdalene Laundries victim tells story of mother on Twitter

Sometimes it is really great that the modern means of communication exist. And
that people have great interest and sympathy for victims, like those of the
Magdalene Laundries.

Samantha Long, the daughter of Magdalene Laundries victim, tells the
story of her late mother on Twitter and having great success with that.

It is a very sad and appalling story. The poor women was taken to the laundries
at the age of two and would leave the Church run laundries 49 years later in a
coffin, after she died of slave related injuries.

And here's the tweet thread by Samantha Long

It is also great to note that hypocrisy is not much of religion anymore.
When the Catholic Church complains about secularism, people becoming
ever more godless, and so on, they practically slander people again.
Because, as mentioned, it is just hypocrisy in all its institutionalized forms
that fading and vanishing thanks to people staying away from such rituals
and events. They also fail to mention that Jesus did not preach hypocrisy,
quite to the contrary, he spoke out against it, had nothing good to say about it.

And they fail to tell this simple truth: That Jesus never told anyone to join
a congregation, a sect or a church, nor did tell anyone to visit a temple (church),
attend rituals there and so on.
Instead he recommended - Matth. 6,6: "And if you pray, go into room where
nobody can see you, and there you pray. ..."
With this advise he solved the whole lot of problems very efficiently. It is
unbelievable what kind of problems someone can thus avoid simply by
staying home on Sunday for instance, not being under the influence of clerics.
Like this one can avoid those scumbag Catholics who are always to either
heap further abuse on victims, twist such stories or are otherwise complicit.
in such scandals.

Tabloids are biggest losers in circulation again

The Sun on Sunday is the  biggest loser. 6% of its readers stopped
buying it in December. It was started with a circulation of 3,2 million
in 2011. Meantime the circulation is down to 1,877 739. The decline
of the print media is not to stop.

The daily edition of the Sun also went down considerably with 3,66%
in December and which is thus the biggest loser.

See here for the December UK figures:
The Sunday newspaper market (including some circulation in Ireland)

The national daily market (also including some Irish circulation)

Irish newspapers want big money for links to articles

The Irish newspapers presently manage something otherwise only
experienced in dictatorships. The want a law passed that enables them
to ask for lots of money for links to articles. And there is not one word
in the newspapers about their efforts. A total news blackout concerning
this matter.

Hence it is outside websites carrying the information, apart from
The Journal.ie, Irish an internet (news) website.
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The Irish media have, by and large, their long list of sins. Sins that helped
to bring the economic problems about Ireland is in now.
Since the outbreak of the crisis, they banked on "bad news are good news",
are great in wailing, whining, ranting, while at the same time carrying on
partying and minding "life style" issues just like the French aristocracy before
the Revolution. The certainly aren't business papers that can be taken
serious. A serious media crisis would not be a problem, rather solve a
lot of current problems.

Update: The Irish Times has meantime reacted and declared that links to
articles in the Irish Times would be tolerated.