Martin: Complaints will not go away

ARCHBISHOP Diarmuid Martin has warned that complaints by people abused as children in religious-run day schools – which are not covered by the Redress Board – will not go away.

He was speaking after Freedom of Information documents revealed the orders tried to extend their 2002 indemnity deal beyond residential institutions.

If they had succeeded, their contribution of just €128 million to a redress bill that has so far cost the state in excess of €1 billion would have been intended to cover many more institutions.