Last night.
Mother and Baby Home activists Breeda Murphy, Eunan Duffy and Frank Brehany discuss the fallout from the UN envoy job offer to Katherine Zappone.
Ms Zappone served as Minister of Children and Youth Affairs from May 2016 to June 2020, a tenure often marred by criticism over her handling of the Mother and Baby Home issue by survivors, their families and supporters (and the UN). Not least for her personal plea to Pope Francis (top), during his visit to Ireland in 2018, asking if the Vatican would contribute to costs for the exhumation of remains discovered at Tuam.
This is the 21st in a series of shows looking at all aspects of the Mother and Baby Home Report.
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The reality is that if they had been forced to advertise this role, it would have been done purely for optics, but the outcome would have been the same. They would have gone to the expense of running a recruitment campaign and wasted other candidates’ time before shoe-horning their woman in. Cronyism seems honest in comparison.
*Ahem*. Didn’t you and I exchange words about nepotism in [Irish] politics during the past year? Although, at least cronyism is different to nepotism… so it is.
But at least the outcome would have been the same.
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I reckon brazen describes it more honestly.
Honesty seems to be lacking in all of this.
Cronyism in this story is just blatant, but I wouldn’t argue with your take on how it would have happened had the post been advertised – you git that in one.
What’s the title of Frank’s book about his father?