Nell mccafferty kerry babies

A Woman To Blame (The Kerry Babies Case) by Nell McCafferty
1985, Attic Press. ISBN 0-946211-22-1, ISBN 0-946211-21-3 pbk

A sketch you might be familiar with: Irish comedian Tommy Tiernan instances his sex education – at break-time in school a more knowledgeable peer announces “first your willy goes hard...

then you put it inside her”. One perplexed schoolboy says “but I don't like cider!”
In Nell McCafferty's detailed description of the Tribunal of Inquiry into the Kerry Babies Case I have a picture of similar boys to those in Tiernan's class but now grown up: at the top of their game in the Gardaí Síochána or legal profession sitting on the Tribunal but still not much clearer on the mysteries of love/baby making – Judge Kevin Lynch (the Tribunal Judge) asking at one point if it was possible to give birth standing up.

There really isn't anything funny about that.

A Woman To Blame does what it says on the tin: the undeniable