image 1 text: tweet from Dr Nicola Ní Mhistéil @serentrippety. If you're wondering what #RoeVWade has to do with Ireland, the same groups that funded anti-choice campaigning & lobbying are pumping money & comms into anti-choice groups here. This is a global campaign make no mistake about it.
On a night like this I remember the child
who came with fifteen summers to her name,
and she lay down alone at my feet
without midwife or doctor or friend to hold
and she pushed her secret out into the night,
far from the town tucked up in little
bargains struck, words broken, prayers,
and though she cried out to me in extremis
I didn't lift a finger to help her,
I didn't intercede with heaven,
nor whisper the charmed word in God's ear.
On a night like this I number the days to the
and the turn back to the light.
centre of our foolish dance,
Statue of the Virgin at Granard Speaks"