HSE investigates Cork school abuse

The HSE investigation into alleged sexual and physical abuse at a former north Cork boarding school is still under way but the HSE cannot say when its conclusions will be made public.

HSE executives say they cannot give a date for when the investigation — which relates to historical matters and not the current era — is likely to be finished due to the Garda investigation into alleged child sex abuse at Sacred Heart College, Carrignavar, in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s.

The HSE began its inquiry last August into the decades-old abuse at the behest of Children’s Minister Frances Fitzgerald.