JUST a few months ago a new board of directors was appointed to Right of Place, a charity for survivors of institutional abuse.

THE head of the Irish Survivors of Child Abuse (SOCA) group has written to Taoiseach Brian Cowen calling for an inquiry into the financing of all survivor groups over the past 10 years.

The Health Service Executive (HSE) is withholding funding from a Cork-based group representing survivors of institutional abuse until it can prove it can manage these monies appropriately.

The Chairman of an organisation set up to support survivors of residential abuse has claimed before the High Court today that he has been threatened by a group of individuals who are attempting to take over the day-to-day running of that body.