Shatter demands fresh Galway abuse inquiry

A FRESH inquiry has been demanded into the abuse of children with intellectual disabilities in institutions run by the Brothers of Charity in Galway.

The call came following yesterday’s publication of the long-delayed Hynes Report into why the original inquiry into the abuse took eight years to furnish a report.

This first inquiry began in 1999 when the then Western Health Board was requested to investigate allegations of abuse in institutions run by the Brothers of Charity in Galway. However, by 2001, all of the members appointed, apart from the chairperson, had either departed or resigned. The chairperson resigned in January 2006 without any report being completed.