Bethany Home injustice rankles

The Child Abuse Redress Scheme does not apply to all victims equally, says Conor Ryan

CATHOLIC religious orders lobbied the State to relax the rules in order to ensure more of their institutions were belatedly covered under the child abuse redress scheme.

Meanwhile, similar institutions, like the Protestant-run Bethany Home, met with blunt refusals to allow its survivors benefit from the compensation scheme.