Feeling excluded, surviving on State pension with health problems
Born in 1947 in the Bethany Home, I was there for fewer than 180 days .
I was sent by Bethany Home to a “nurse mother” in Tipperary where I was so ill-nourished I suffered from rickets of the head – a condition known as “skull-cap”, resulting in skin on the head folding over the ears. I was taken under the control of the Irish Church Missions and spent some time in a Smyley’s home.Analysis: Kamala Harris press performances prompt more questions than answersThe name stuck, though Patrick is not my birth name. I was regularly beaten.
I left that “home” and lived in a treehouse as a teenager, before finally escaping to England aged 17. I returned to Ireland and was founder and artistic director of the Tubular Gallery, Cork, and in 1978 was the founder and director of the Triskel Arts Centre, Cork.From the beginning, I was excluded and abandoned by the State. I am excluded now, trying to survive on a State pension with increasing health problems.
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