Abuse survivor calls on religious orders to seek out other victims
Michael O’Brien, who spent eight years in St Joseph’s School, Ferryhouse, Clonmel, said the Rosminian Order which ran it, and the other religious congregations who were in charge of similar institutions, were not doing enough to make up for the suffering their members caused.
“There are an awful lot of down and outs – men and women whose lives were destroyed in those schools – and who are on the streets of Dublin, Cork, London, Manchester, Bristol. I want the religious orders to go out and find them. There are people suffering from alcoholism and drug addiction. I want the orders to help them. I am just one person – there are thousands who never uttered a word about what they went through,” he said.
