The support offered by Scouting Ireland to people alleging they were abused, sexually and physically, within scouting is not enough, a leading abuse survivors charity has claimed.

“Be prepared” is the scouting motto, but it is unlikely that Scouting Ireland was ready to deal with the fact that a full review of the organisation has found evidence of 71 alleged abusers and 108 victims between the 1960s and 1980s.

AM trying to contact any former members of the Catholic Boy Scouts of Ireland who travelled on the scout pilgrimage to Rome in March 1934 on the ocean liner Lancastria.

A former leader of an organisation, widely regarded as the IRA’s youth wing, today compared it with the boy scout movement.