The institutions that were a very common feature of Irish life for such a long time, and in which many abuses took place, are indelibly associated in the public mind with the Catholic Church. This is understandable to a certain degree because they ran so many of them, chiefly the industrial schools, the mother and…
Our double standards about institutional abuse
‘Final Journey’ – a Magdalen Laundry Sculpture in Galway. Photo: William Murphy / Flickr.

David Quinn