 Complete the following phrase:  The case was the subject of much media comment and public controversy in the period. Colm Tóibín described the reports on the Gay Byrne Show as reminiscent of a Thomas Hardy novel. Feminist and liberal commentators at the time and in retrospect have seen it as one of a series of events illustrating a conservative Catholic society unsympathetic to women; others include the 1981 Kerry Babies case, the 