The controversy over the much heralded book Cathy's Story continues. In it the author claims she was she mistreated and abused by Nuns, and made to do menial work in the laundry
Let Our Voices Emerge (L.O.V.E.) are 100% sure that Kathy O'Beirne was not in Magdalene laundry, and will help any journalist or investigative team who want to follow up the Sunday Mirror article with what we know.We are determined that this book will be proven in Ireland and the U.K as being a work of fiction.
In the Irish Sunday Mirror yesterday [20th August], the family of Kathy O'Beirne have vehemently counteracted many of her claims in the book 'Kathy's Story'. She has lashed back saying 'I have never lied before - and I'm not going to start now'.
Let Our Voices Emerge (L.O.V.E.) are 100% sure that Kathy O'Beirne was not in Magdalene laundry. Let Our Voices Emerge will help any journalist or investigative team who want to follow up the Sunday Mirror article with what they know and are determined that this book will be proven in Ireland and the U.K as being a work of fiction.
A press release issues by L.O.V.E states
Today in the Sunday Mirror exclusive,
'Kathy's Story', a book now on the bestselling lists both in Ireland and in the U.K , detailing horrific abuse by nuns and priests has today been exposed as a cruel hoax by the writers family.
Let Our Voices Emerge (L.O.V.E) are outraged that such a story could become so successful with so little proof. Yet our warnings that the writer could produce little or no evidence were ignored as we ironically enough couldn't produce evidence to back our claims.
Florence Horsman Hogan states :
'Many people have suffered terribly, their lives and their reputations ruined because of Ms O'Beirnes allegations, the courage of her family coming forward in such daunting circumstances is absolutely heroic.
I would encourage anyone else who knows of false allegations to come forward and speak with us. Much damage can be avoided at a much earlier stage if we are approached for support'.
The book alleging to be the authors true life story of horrific physical, sexual and emotional abuse in six Institutions, some of them Magdalene laundries shocked Britain and Ireland in it's stark cruelty .
Raped by two boys, as well as by two priests (one resulting in a child that died at ten years old), washing dead bodies as a fourteen year old for punishment ,being abused in a psychiatric hospital, undergoing drug trials, Electro Convulsive Theraphy, liver and intestinal biopsies taken without sedation, beatings with a hose pipe resulting in a fractured pelvis, hundreds of people buried in mass graves in Glasnevin....and the litany goes on.
Ms O'Beirne has walked over the suffering of any child who has suffered abuse, and callously took their stories (much exaggerated), as her own. Let Our Voices Emerge intend expose others that we know to be false or exaggerated in the future.
The Sunday Mirror and Niall Donald have shown incredible determination, and sensitivity in handling this story, her family have shown great courage in the face of much opposition in coming forward.
Florence Horsman Hogan:
Let Our Voices Emerge
01-2821414 / 0868762148.