Department attacked industrial school in 1940

Jim Morahan

The report was written in 1940, nearly five decades before the scandal of child abuse in religious institutions hit the headlines.

“I cannot find any excuse which would exonerate you and your staff from the verminous condition of several of the children’s heads,” Department of Education medical inspector Anna McCabe told Rev Mother Agnes Langan, who was in charge of the congregation’s institution at Newtownforbes, Co Longford.