In 1985 the then President of the Federal Republic of Germany, Richard von Wiezsäcker referred to women as being “the keepers of the flame of humanity".
During that same time in Ireland, when it was suggested that women be allowed take on non-combatant roles in the Irish Army, an Army chaplain demurred, arguing that “whatever use women might have in the forces was overridden by the moral dangers involved.
- Information taken from an opinion piece by Diarmuid Ferriter in The Irish Times yesterday.
Ferriter was writing on how the Irish Army has taken too long to face up to sexual harassment problems and how it took the airing of the personal testimony of women to create the necessary urgency to confront in any sort of a meaningful way a deep-rooted, damaging culture.
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