Pat Flanagan: State goes to vast lengths to cover up all its scandals

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The revelations of decades of abuse at schools run by the Congregation of the Holy Spirit is a very Irish sex scandal in that it concerns children and priests, writes patflanagan1 in this week's column

The BBC has been hounded for having one Jimmy Savile - imagine we have an institution in this country which allegedly had 82 of them.

She and the other Hep C scandal victims were warned by the Chief State Solicitor they would be pursued all the way to the Supreme Court if they failed to accept the derisory compensation offered for losing their lives. When I was a boy I was abused by Dr Michael Shine on several occasions at our Lady of Lourdes hospital in Drogheda as were many hundreds of other children in the 1960s and 70s.

She called for a commission of inquiry into what is it about Irish society that filters through into organisations where it seems it is more important to protect the institution and the offenders rather than children.

 

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