THE long-awaited interim report from Ms Justice Mary Laffoy will be published next Friday and is expected to be highly critical of the Government’s support for the Child Abuse Commission.

GOVERNMENT officials were kept in the dark over details of the compensation scheme for victims of abuse in religious institutions, it was claimed yesterday.

WITH growing suicide rates among child abuse victims, support groups are planning widespread protests if the work of a long-awaited compensation board fails to get underway next month.