THE Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse has heard claims that there is an “unbridgeable gulf” between the findings of school inspection reports and the personal experiences of children at former industrial schools run by the Sisters of Mercy.

The Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse is reportedly due to begin investigations into residential institutions run by the Sisters of Mercy this week.

THE Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse is to begin public hearings into allegations of abuse at an industrial school for girls in Co Longford when it resumes in the New Year.

SURVIVORS of abuse in children’s residential institutions have said plans by the Laffoy Commission to interview people who were not abused will make nonsense of the commission’s work.

THE Laffoy Commission decision’s to solicit evidence from those with positive experience of Irish industrial schools has been branded a “whitewash” by the leader of the 800-member Survivors of Child Abuse.