Mar

26

Ahern: Plot to ‘silence’ apology for State care abuse

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Thursday, March 26, 2009

By Juno McEnroe

FORMER Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Bertie Ahern has revealed efforts were made to silence his apology on behalf of the State to survivors of institutional child abuse.

Mr Ahern said people had put pressure on him because of legal and financial concerns not to say sorry when the apology was made nearly 10 years ago.
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Mar

15

Children must be protected from the will of a conspiring Church

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We’ve finally realised that children are not to be fed to the Church’s power or sacrificed to its ministers, writes Emer O’Kelly
Sunday Independent, 15th March 2009

HE looked old and he looked wrecked; a far cry from the plump, effervescently supercilious individual in the expensive tailoring who arrived in Cork from Rome in the Eighties.
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