Queue Of Soulless PR Firms Forms Outside Bon Secours Sisters, Offer To Explain Away All Tuam Excavation Discoveries
A MERE 11 years after local historian Catherine Corless’s research on the presence of a mass child burial site in Tuam created headlines around the world, an international team of excavation experts will begin the careful work of exhuming the remains of children discarded by the Bon Secours Sisters.
However, the work may be hampered by the large queue of PR firms once again willing to whitewash the role religious orders played in the alleged deaths of 800 children and the potential human trafficking of 1,000 more to America.
“Getting a PR gig with a religious crowd is the holy grail excuse the pun, because you’re guaranteed steady income as once one scandal disappears another one surfaces. And I like the challenge of defending the indefensible, it’s fun but more importantly it’s lucrative,” explained one eager PR firm whose website mentions the words ‘integrity’ and ‘moral led approach’.
“And despite what you think, representing a religious order that stonewalls people looking for their loved ones and hides records doesn’t hurt your career or turn you into a pariah. Just look at Terry Prone, you claim on behalf of the nuns there’s no bodies in Tuam and you’re almost guaranteed newspaper columns and TV appearances,” offered another hopeful PR guru.
“If I can share a dream of mine, I hope it doesn’t sound too silly but I hope I get the consulting gig helping the government promote and road test legislation making religious institutions legally liable to pay redress while also working with those institutions to lobby against the proposed legislation ever becoming law,” shared an excited PR man in the queue.
Other PR professionals weren’t so excited by the prospect of gaining such a client.
“It’s a little too easy of a gig if you ask me; authorities are embarrassed and shamed into looking into the deaths of 800 children hidden in a mass grave and the guards never treated it like a crime scene. Where’s the challenge to manage damage limitation in PR when official Ireland automatically limits the damage for us anyway,” concluded one disappointed PR professional.