The memories of the physical torture were not as shocking to someone of my generation as the lasting impact the assaults still have on the adult men who endured them so many decades ago.
It's like the watermark on a £5 note. It's there. It'll always be there.
Her mother kept him out of school after a particularly dreadful beating. A garda came to their house on a bicycle to tell her that Gerry would be sent to a reform school if he didn't go back.
Norman Murray's mother, also from the Navan area, took him to the doctor and asked for a medical note requesting that he be beaten on his good arm.
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