O’Loan had doubts after attacks on children

NORTHERN Ireland Police Ombudsman Nuala O’Loan has revealed how she was on the verge of standing down after her children were subjected to violent attacks.

But the mother-of-five’s family insisted she press ahead with the ground-breaking job that has thrust her into the centre of a maelstrom of controversy over police reforms.

In a wide-ranging interview, to be broadcast today on RTÉ Radio 1, Mrs O’Loan speaks for the first time about how emotional strain almost forced her from the post.