Joanne Hayes was badly treated by the gardaí – but to paint her a victim of Catholic Ireland is wrong
Joanne Hayes and her daughter at home in 1985
David Quinn
The past is a foreign country, they say — and Ireland of the 1980s is now depicted as so utterly alien and dark compared to the Ireland of today that it might as well be from another planet.
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