THE provincial of the Christian Brothers’ St Mary’s (northern) province, Bro David Gibson, certainly had a point when he warned against the danger of innocent brothers being unjustly accused of abuses in industrial schools (Irish Examiner, May 23).

I SEE Ryle Dwyer has resurrected the old canard about the priest in Daingean who admitted he had boys stripped naked and flogged in a stairwell to make it more humiliating (Irish Examiner, May 6). Allow me to lay that particular ghost to rest.

THOSE criticising the Irish Bishops' Conference's document 'Our Children, Our Church' for its supposed absence of direction on mandatory reporting appear to be missing two essential points.

NORA WALL, the former nun wrongfully convicted of rape and sentenced to life imprisonment in 1999, is to sue the State for damages.

PEOPLE may have felt a sense of betrayal over the disclosure that Bishop Eamon Casey had fathered a son, but in the last analysis it was their own sense of innocence that was exposed.

THE vindication of a former nun, wrongly sentenced to life imprisonment for the rape of a young girl that never happened, deserves to be loudly applauded.

A former nun who was sentenced to life imprisonment for the rape of a young girl was today declared the victim of a miscarriage of justice.

A young woman gave false evidence against a former nun because she hated her and wanted to get back at her, a court heard today.

A nun who was wrongly convicted of raping a young girl is due to seek a certificate declaring a miscarriage of justice at the Court of Criminal Appeal today.

THE Director of Public Prosecutions’ issuing of an apology and explanation in connection with a case file reveals he is prepared to depart from his stated policy of refusing to give reasons for decisions, a high-profile solicitor has claimed.

Harry McGee says Director of Public Prosecutions James Hamilton may be trapped by policy of silence.

SINCE it was established in 1974, the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has been embroiled in many controversies, mainly when a decision is taken not to prosecute or when the prosecution goes wrong, as it did in yesterday’s Curtin case.

NORA WALL was sentenced to life in prison after she was wrongly convicted of raping a nine-year-old girl.

THE Director of Public Prosecutions is not expected to oppose an application by former nun Nora Wall that there was a gross miscarriage of justice in her case.

THE recent RTÉ Prime Time programme raised emotions sufficiently high to trigger off a lynch mob. Some commentators developed instant ‘hanging fever.’