Seminars to track down Irish abuse victims in US

SEMINARS are to be held in the United States to track down potentially thousands of American-based Irish people who may be eligible for compensation and other benefits as victims of abuse in orphanages and other State institutions.

The seminars will begin next Monday in Boston and will also be staged in Chicago before being extended to other parts of America and to Europe.

Representatives of the survivors’ group, Right of Place, are to speak at the meetings to raise awareness of the entitlements available to claimants who successfully make a case to the Residential Institutions Redress Board.