Why should we not speak badly of the dead if they have done terrible wrong?
Has it something to do with protetcting institutions and organisations? Something to do with control and power, as pathetic as it may be?
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Dominican priest Philip McShane died in St Vincent’s Hospital in Dublin on Wednesday, October 18. We talk about people dying with their boot... -
Seósamh Laurence Collins died in Tallaght University Hospital in the early hours of Monday morning, January 22. Larry, as he was known in t... -
Dominican priest Leo Donovan died in Kiltipper Woods Care Centre, Tallaght on Saturday morning, February 17. Leo had been over two years in ...
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I always wondered about that one.
I think it may come from the idea that, being dead, they cannot defend themselves.
However, I agree that its application these days is far too wide and I have no problem holding the dead to account.
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