BRITISH mental health services and homeless agencies should be trained to help ‘screen’ Irish people whose lives were devastated by institutional abuse, it was claimed.

The Federation of Irish Societies in Britain has warned young people not to move to England without getting proper advice.

THE RTÉ Prime Time TV programme on Irish emigrants to Britain, shown late last year, stirred the consciousness of the Irish at home and raised awareness of the problems of some members of our community in the Britain.

VARIOUS institutional abuse survivor groups have been helped, supported and instructed both financially and in order to buy their compliance.