Commission must uncover the truth of 'Grace' case

After the decades of appalling abuse Grace is alleged to have suffered in a foster home, comes yet another shocking thought: Was someone trying to cover it up? Political Editor Daniel McConnell shows how the HSE has already tried to stonewall and hoodwink an Oireachtas committee on some matters relevant to the case, and cautions that the new commission of inquiry offers no guarantee that justice will be served

IT WAS shocking, horrific. This mute, intellectually disabled woman arrived at her day care centre only to take off her underwear and adopt a sexual position on the utterance of a particular phrase.

She needed to have seven teeth removed because of the neglect she endured.