As a child, one of my jobs was to go to the local shop each morning to get the newspapers. We took The Irish Times and The Irish Press each day; The Sunday Press, The Observer and The Sunday Times on the weekend; and various regional papers on a weekly basis. Instead of the front page, I was looking down at the death notices on the back page of The Irish Times. The woman in the photograph was a Catholic who was engaged to a British solider, and was publicly punished. I don’t know how small children nowadays deal with the news they see coming at them from screens all around them.

Source: The Irish Times March 04, 2026 14:40 UTC