| Media Watch with Eithne Earley-Jenkerson |
| Written by Eithne Earley-Jenkerson | |
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AND SO Nuala Ó’Faoláin has gone. The woman who claimed not to believe in an afterlife or have a belief in God is to be cremated after Mass this morning. Befuddling even beyond the end! Although her passing was known to be imminent, there was evidence of precious little media preparation. The RTÉ website on Saturday gave her age variously as 66, 67 and 68. The RTÉ One news said she lived in Galway and included the sentence “She never married.” What that had to do with the price of eggs, nobody knows. The Sindo got her place of death, The Blackrock Hospice, correctly but weirdly carried a statement from a different hospice. It fell to The International Herald Tribune and The New York Times to be the first to come closest to the sum total of her, with the blinding quotes and the correct facts. “A lot of us suffered in the Ireland of my day,” she is quoted as saying. “We came out of a culture where women were utterly powerless and children had no value. If you were hit at school you were hit at home for being hit at school. It goes without saying there was no sex education. The only education a lot of us got was in neglect and being unloved.” Registration is required to view this content, registration is FREE |
