The chairman of the North's historical abuse inquiry has urged James Brokenshire to implement recommendations in his report.

Clerical sex abuse survivor and papal representative Marie Collins said she was glad there would be an inquiry over the failure by the gardaí to act on information it had in 1973, about paedophile priest Brendan Smyth.

Sixty-six people have applied to give evidence about the alleged abuse of child migrants from Northern Ireland, the Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry has said.

FROM 1859 to 1969, 105,000 children were taken into industrial homes in Ireland. They were often large and uninviting buildings, designed to make economies of scale, with staff morale poor and workers displaying aloofness from charges who may have been orphaned or separated from their mothers because they were born out of wedlock.