Judgment has been reserved in a Supreme Court case where a woman, who suffered institutional abuse while in state care as a child, was refused in her application for redress because she was too late.

Questions surround a section of the McAleese Report which states it asked the Ryan Commission to contact seven women mentioned in the Ryan Report who were in Magdalene Laundries.

The Christian Brothers has been urged to mediate settlements with survivors of historic sexual abuse instead of fighting cases in the courts following a landmark deal in North America.

The child abuse redress guidelines could frame the work of any scheme drawn up for the Magdalene Laundries women, writes investigative correspondent Conor Ryan

I am writing in relation to the point made by religious orders recently in your paper, when they said that accepting a 50:50 share of the Redress Bill would imply they are all to blame for abuse.

Intimidation is a very powerful and secret weapon used by dangerous people.

Two sisters who allege they were abused in residential institutions have brought a challenge to the refusal, on grounds of being out of time, to allow them bring an application for redress.

A woman who the High Court heard suffered "severe sexual and physical abuse" as a child in a state institution has brought a legal challenge aimed at overturning the Residential Institution Redress Board's refusal to allow her bring a claim for compensation.

A WOMAN who claims she was abused at an industrial school has lost her High Court challenge against the Residential Institutions Redress Board’s refusal to allow her bring a claim for compensation.

A woman who claims she was abused at an industrial school has today lost her High Court challenge against the Redress Institution Board's refusal to allow her bring a claim for compensation.

EDUCATION Minister Ruairi Quinn has told religious congregations they have a moral duty to pay significantly more in reparations for those abused in residential institutions.

Education Minister Ruairi Quinn has told a group of religious congregations that their responses to provide compensation for victims of abuse is "disappointing".

THE Government has asked the Attorney General to examine a groundbreaking report by the state’s human rights watchdog which calls for a statutory enquiry into the Magdalene Laundries.

THE Justice For Magdalenes (JFM) advocacy group has accused the Government of refusing to apologise to the women who were kept in Magdalene Laundries as they know most of the women are very elderly and too ashamed about their past to campaign for justice.

I READ with interest your report headlined ‘Year delay before abuse inquiry decides on documents’ (July 5).

THE TAOISEACH Brian Cowen told victims of institutional child abuse that the state intends keeping two-thirds of the extra €348.5 million in redress that it has just secured from religious orders.

In as much as the Pope’s pastoral letter is an apology for clerical paedophile abuse, it should be warmly welcomed, but it is distinctly short on specifics about what should actually be done.

EMBATTLED Bishop of Galway Martin Drennan has pleaded for patience as the Church deals with the impact of the Murphy report.

THE Government yesterday unveiled its long-awaited response to the recommendations of the Ryan report, with the roll-out of the plan likely to cost €25 million.

FINGERS were jabbed through the air, thick with recrimination and hurt – the only surprise is that for once the Government wasn’t the target.

CONTRIBUTIONS to RTÉ’s Spirit Level programme (June 28) showed there is an ongoing need to hold to account religious congregations who even still wish to cast themselves as the victimised and betrayed.

An man who lost his legal challenge against the Redress Board's refusal to accept his application for compensation is to appeal his case to the Supreme Court.

An alleged victim of abuse has lost his legal challenge against the Redress Board's decision to refuse his late application for compensation on the grounds of exceptional circumstances.

The One in Four support group has reiterated its call for an extension to the Redress Board deadline for victims of institutional child abuse.

THE Pope has made what is being widely interpreted as his first official comments on the child abuse scandal in residential institutions here.

The Garda Central Vetting Unit (GCVU) was established in 2002 with the aim of vetting those intending to work with children or other vulnerable people.

An alleged victim of abuse has commenced a legal challenge against the Redress Board's decision not to accept his late application on grounds of exceptional circumstances.

Thousands of people marched yesterday from the Garden of Remembrance, down O’Connell Street, past the GPO, to Dáil Éireann in solidarity with the survivors of sexual abuse in Catholic residential institutions down through the decades.

ARCHBISHOP Diarmuid Martin has warned that complaints by people abused as children in religious-run day schools – which are not covered by the Redress Board – will not go away.

BOYS number 117 and 146 hadn’t been in touch for over 40 years but when they spotted each other in the crowd, they were instantly back in the childhoods they had tried hard to forget.

SURVIVORS of institutional child abuse held their first meeting with Taoiseach Brian Cowen last night in an attempt to strike a new atonement deal.

Our republic is just over 60 years old. As you mature through life, you reflect on your own failures, errors and shortcomings. As a nation we need to face these with honesty. We have been too trusting and deferential to those on whom we have conferred authority

THE Department of Education has rejected claims that compensation payments to victims of institutional child abuse have been hit by budget cutbacks.

THE perpetrators of abuse against generations of children in industrial schools are unlikely to ever face prosecution, a senior solicitor said yesterday, claiming victims should not be given “false hope”.

The Government today faced calls to revise its capped compensation scheme for thousands of victims of clerical child abuse.

THOSE who may have suffered abuse in orphanages and industrial schools in Ireland have been advised that it may not be too late to apply for compensation.

SO Eugene Murphy (Letters, August 29) did not find my column headlined ‘Taxpayers fleeced and reputations ruined by false child abuse claims’ (August 22) to his taste.

I REFER to Hermann Kelly’s outrageous column (August 21) alleging fleecing of taxpayers and fraudulent claims before the Residential Institutions Redress Board.

ALLIANCE Victim Support has spent many years trying to help victims of abuse by campaigning, advocating on their behalf and introducing them to the services they need.

THREE cheers for Hermann Kelly for his column on the Residential Institutions Redress Board (August 21).

THE final compensation bill for victims of child abuse in residential institutions will top €1 billion, according to agreed figures from the State’s spending watchdog and the Department of Education.

THE number of Freedom of Information (FOI) requests made each year to public bodies has fallen by 36% since the Government introduced application fees in 2003.

A NUMBER of victims of disgraced obstetrician Dr Michael Neary who received short notice of a compensation scheme may miss the August deadline to apply, a group representing them has warned.

SIEGE man Jim Hourigan told the Irish Examiner by mobile phone last night how his life was left in ruins after he was repeatedly raped as a postulant in the Christian Brothers.