On your letter column on August 28, Patrick Dalton wrote of us being collectively responsible for the society we live in – going on to say, “who said stop when families handed over their ‘fallen’ daughters to institutions? Who said stop when the State broke up struggling families and put their children into care? Who said stop when Irish priests, brothers and nuns abused these citizens?”

I am delighted that in the end, we have found the culprit for all the abuse of children and women that has occurred in our country.

FORMER pupils of a primary school in the south-east have told Bishop of Ossory, Seamus Freeman how its teachers past and present, have presided over a “reign of abuse” that dates back 25 years.