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Matt Cooper's article on The North Mon

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  • 09-05-2008 9:00am
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    flo8s967qjh0nd
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    Has anybody read the article in today's Examiner by Matt Cooper.
    A piece on alleged physical abuse in the North Mon. As usual with such pieces, it didn't happen to him, but to a friend of his!

    Now, I realise people got a slap and a thump from time to time, but this article makes the place sound like a concentration camp and that it was unlike what went on in every other school in the country at the time.

    I think Matt Cooper has done the school and the Christian Brothers a disservice by this piece. They are by no means perfect, but they were not all bad either.

    See the article here:
    http://www.examiner.ie/irishexaminer/pages/story.aspx-qqqg=opinion-qqqm=opinion-qqqa=general-qqqid=62296-qqqx=1.asp


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    DannyBuoy
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    They were not all bad but they certainly had some sadistic members in the 70's. If they were around today they would have been arrested for assault and rightly so.
    I accept that there must be some form of punishment in schools but beating the s*** out of some 7 year old young fella cant be the best way.


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    who_ru
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    speaking as someone who attended a christian brothers school but not the one in question i can vouch for the sadism of some of them - quite simply they would be serving extremely long custodial sentences if (and they should have) faced a criminal court.

    i know they were not all the same - i myself was beaten twice by the same christian (?) brother while at school - once aged 14 and he used his fists.


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    patbundy
    Registered Users Posts: 493 ✭✭patbundy


    who_ru wrote: »
    speaking as someone who attended a christian brothers school but not the one in question i can vouch for the sadism of some of them - quite simply they would be serving extremely long custodial sentences if (and they should have) faced a criminal court.

    i know they were not all the same - i myself was beaten twice by the same christian (?) brother while at school - once aged 14 and he used his fists.

    same here buddy


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