59 - A Miscarriage of Justice: Nora Wall
Mens Rea: A true crime podcast
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🗓️ 19 January 2020
⏱️ 52 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the mens rea podcast and this is the story of Nora Wall. The Oh, Please note this episode contains discussion about allegations of child abuse, sexual assault, and rape against children. |
| 0:52.0 | The Sisters of Mercy established a convent in Capacquin in Waterford in 1850, and in 1877 St Michael's Industrial School was opened on its grounds. |
| 1:06.3 | It operated as a boy's home where they would stay until about 10 years of age. |
| 1:11.9 | In 1970 girls were admitted and the age you could stay to was |
| 1:16.6 | eventually extended. When the original industrial school building was closed in 1977, the school was reformed into two group homes, Cushkame and Emmeru. |
| 1:31.2 | The homes remained entirely under the Sisters of Mercy until 1985. |
| 1:37.0 | At that point the Southeastern Health Board took over, in theory, but the Sisters of Mercy still ran the group homes and looked after the management of it. |
| 1:47.0 | The Sisters of Mercy at Kappa Quinn were primarily engaged in providing education in a number of ways, some as regular teachers, and a few working |
| 1:57.2 | exclusively in St. Michael's. |
| 1:59.9 | The home also had a number of lay staff, that is staff who were not members of the Order of Nuns or any other religious organization. |
| 2:09.0 | Nor a Wall, better known as Sister Dominic at that time, was manager at St Michael's Center, and had been since 1978. |
| 2:19.0 | She was the daughter of a farmer, born in 1948. She was raised on the farm in the picturesque |
| 2:27.2 | Nair Valley near to Clonmel in County Waterford. After school at the age of 16, she joined the Sisters of Mercy and began |
| 2:36.0 | teaching in a girl's secondary school. After that, she underwent training in |
| 2:40.5 | child care and social work. She was part of the first wave of a new generation |
| 2:45.9 | of clergy people who would be professionally trained in the social work that they often found |
| 2:52.1 | themselves called to do. |
| 2:54.8 | Her first child care course was completed in St Joseph's in Kilkenny. |
| 2:59.6 | By all accounts from her colleagues at the time she thrived in her studies and did well there. |
| 3:04.0 | She absorbed the knowledge and put it to use. |
| 3:09.0 | By the time she was 30 years old, |
| 3:11.0 | Sister Dominic took up the position as manager of St Michael's Child Care |
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