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Article originally prepared on : 20 April 2010

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Support Groups And What You Did Not know

Description: On 15/06/02 Val Grourke and his good friend, Noel Barry, both acting for Right Of Place in Ireland booked into an Inn in London

Support Groups And What You Did Not know
 
[Part 1 act 1]

 

On 15/06/02 Val Grourke and his good friend, Noel Barry, both acting for Right Of Place in Ireland booked into an Inn in London, and it was not just any Inn. It was the four Star Hilton Olympia, one of the most prestigious hotels in the heart of that great city.

 

Tired after their journey while carrying the torch and burden of the Institutional Victims that they claimed to represent, which numbered over 15,000, they set down quickly to business over a few drinks. Then a few more, and a few more. By now the night and early morning had lost its first flush of youth and they were not so young either. They at last decided to retire to their shared room. Morning would wait a little later in the day.

 

When it did arrive the hangover that came with it dulled the senses a bit but not their appetite. They got dressed, and I presume showered and shaved, and headed down for the morning grill. Work of some importance may have been conducted around this time on the telephone and the food was good. So good in fact that the Hilton charged them €264.55. This was of no consequence to Val and Noel, after all were they not here to represent abuse victims, even though many of them had no breakfast at all that morning for they could not afford it. The real world waited outside for them but they did not seem to notice much for they were still nursing that hangover.

 

That evening, they had dinner brought to their room for they were burnt out with the trials of the day that weighed heavily on their shoulders. A few more telephone calls was all that was left in them to make. After whispering a few sweet nothings to each other while framed in the moonlight, sleep came fast and soundly that night. In the morning there was no time for breakfast and quickly paid for their very short stay. Noel, handed the cashier a Barclay card after they handed him the bill. Neither showed surprise including Val when it came to €833.19 that included €32.14 for those important phone calls. After all the government through the HSE including some charitable priests, Christian brothers and nuns were paying the bill anyway. They could not have known that these two support group leaders along with others, were only supporting themselves. The intervening years through inflation would have made this bill much higher and help pay for at least one of Paris Hilton's handbags, and were only a fraction of the expenses for those 48 hours. With that, they all lived happily ever after.

 

These details will never be in the end of year breakdown for 2002, only the generic disclaimer form that allows any kind of ink but not for truth itself, and leaves the accountant to go home with a clean slate. Part 1 act two will follow in due course.

 

Barry Clifford

bgclifford@iol.ie

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