Madam, - It is lovely to know the pope shook the hand of the unmarried "mother to be" in President Sarkozy's cabinet (The Irish Times, September 13th).
This is a far cry from my unmarried mother friends of yesteryear who were spirited away to England or incarcerated for life in the Magdalen laundries. Would an apology be too much to expect? - Yours, etc,
ANN HAYES,
Corbawn Lane,
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Shankill,
Co Dublin.