Abuse survivor Louise O'Keefe seeks meeting with Taoiseach

Louise O’Keeffe, who defeated the Irish Government in the European courts, has demanded a meeting with the Taoiseach to discuss her disappointment at the State’s response to the landmark judgment in her case.

In January she was awarded €30,000 by the European Court of Human Rights because the State had failed to protect her from being abused by her primary school principal, Leo Hickey in 1973.

She has now criticised the Government’s newly-published response to the Council of Europe and what she said was a failure to deliver the comprehensive reply that had been promised.