Victims urge: ‘Demonstrate atonement by contributing to redress fund’

Kate Walmsley (left) and Margaret McGuckin (centre) react to the long-awaited public apology to victims of historical institutional abuse (Brian Lawless/PA)

Organisations that ran the institutions in Northern Ireland where children were abused have been urged to atone by contributing to the redress fund.

Representatives of six – including religious orders, Barnardos and the Irish Church Missions – offered an apology to abuse survivors.