The God Squad

We have recently learnt that the Humbert Summer School in Co. Mayo is to honour victims of clerical abuse.

The Humbert Summer School will also give commemorative awards to journalist Mary Raftery who doesn’t figure in our book, and Sean Ryan who headed the long – running inquiry into church and state run schools and reformatories who at the present is in the Comptroller and Auditor General Report 2009 in relation to its cost to the taxpayer over several years.

It appears that John Cooney, Director of Humbert Summer School said “the honour will mark contributions of the Commission, the long hard campaign of survivors to have their testimonies believed”.

We would like to point out that my wife’s testimony has been edited in the Ryan Commissions Report.

We are dismayed and appalled that the Ryan Commissions Report concerning such serious matters, some of which may contain implicit allegations of abuse, could contain so many inaccuracies and misleading passages.

It is submitted that no conclusions could safely be drawn for any purposes in relation to the aforementioned and on the material on the Ryan Commissions Report.

When one looks at the present position in relation to the State and the Religious Orders including the Redress Board, the Ryan Commission and its Report and the Labour Party’s Institutional Child Abuse Bill 2009.

It soon becomes clear that the Fianna Fail/Green Party Government who voted down the Labour Party’s Institutional Child Abuse Bill 2009 has shown it is dominated by the Civil Service, has no political imagination or courage of its own and just drifting without direction.

Furthermore, the Fianna Fail/Green Party Government and the Religious Orders and the aforementioned overlook their failure to understand that they should be supporting the Labour Party’s Institutional Child Abuse Bill 2009 on behalf of thousands of victims of institutional child abuse instead of patting each other on the back with the aforementioned awards.