Justice Seán Ryan and the Child Abuse Commission have ascribed responsibility for the abuse of tens of thousands of institutionalised children by examining the role and reactions of the authorities concerned – the twin pillars of Church and State which colluded so disastrously in the misery of so many children.
OPINION: IT IS quite simply a devastating report. It is a monument to the shameful nature of Irish society throughout most of the decades of the 20th century, and arguably even today, writes MARY RAFTERY
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