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More than 4,000 disabled Irish people live in homes that most developed countries would have shut long ago. In some, residents are still medicated to control their behaviour, writes Chief Reporter CARL O’BRIEN
TYPICALLY THEY were behind high walls, down long driveways or on the edge of communities. Some are relics of an era when “unreasonable” members of the population were locked away or institutionalised in the 18th and 19th centuries.
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