In her current newsletter, Dún Laoghaire county councillor Anna Grainger writes that Ms Gemma Rowley founded Ally.
She writes: "Congratulations Mrs Gemma Rowley from Dundrum for her pioneering advocacy on behalf of unmarried mothers and their children at a time when significant stigma prevailed in Irish society.
"In 1965 she founded Ally, an initiative that provided alternative community based support arrangements for pregnant women......"
Was it not Dominican priest Fergal O'Connor who founded Ally?
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