Enough is enough for abuse victims

IT IS close to a decade since the issue of child clerical sex abuse started to become as common a feature of public debate as the weather.

In that time we've seen Fr Brendan Smith exposed, had a Government fall over the scandal, been given the Laffoy Commission and watched the Catholic Church squirm, duck, dodge and, in the victims' minds, sorely disappoint.

Despite all that has happened in the past 10 years, it is this last feature of the period that sticks out most clearly.