Irish sports stars are not famed for their contributions to political discussions, but the latest utterance by Padraig Harrington is a whole new level of inanity.
The golfer was trying to defend Saudi Arabia’s takeover of LIV Golf and merger with the PGA, when he incredibly compared the repressive country to….Ireland…in the 1990s.
Now, not only did Ireland have not one but two women presidents in the 1990s, but the country was certainly not ‘locking up unmarried mothers’ as Harrington hilariously claims.
Perhaps he is referring to the fact that the last Magdalene Laundry closed in 1996. But to claim that unmarried mothers were being ‘locked up’ is flat out untrue.
These laundries were brought to Ireland by English Protestants in the 1800s, the demand from native Irish was so high that they asked the church to take them over upon foundation of the new state in the 1920s. Irish people, particularly men, used them as places to dump women and children that they refused to support. Although they continued to be used under the new Irish State, they never reached the levels of popularity that they had had under British rule.
The places themselves were awful and serve as a reminder to what happens when Ireland adopts British culture and to what happens when the church collaborates with the states and the worst vices of the people.
We could list a million examples of why this comparison from Harrington is absurd, but just one will suffice, of a woman who received 100 lashes after being raped and beaten.
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If Harrington thinks that is the equivalent to Ireland in the 1990s, and he is not alone as many feminists do too, then we do not know what to say.
