Victims’ fight for justice ‘vindicated’

VICTIMS of abuse carried out by priests, amid collusion by the Catholic Church and gardaí, yesterday said the publication of the Murphy Report on the Archdiocese of Dublin had “vindicated” their fight for justice.

But the survivors of the shocking abuse catalogued in the report also said similar inquiries need to take place in every diocese in the country.

Marie Collins, who was abused while a patient at Our Ladies Hospital in Crumlin in the early 1960s, said the publication of the report was “the end of a very long road”.