Former Defence Forces Ombudsman says she struggles to sleep over sex abuse in military

Former Defence Forces Ombudsman says she struggles to sleep over sex abuse in military

Former Ombudsman for the Defence Forces Paulyn Marrinan-Quinn.

Fri, 12 May, 2023 - 10:45
Sean O’Riordan

The former Defence Forces Ombudsman has said she finds it hard to sleep at night thinking there were people being sexually abused in the country's military during her seven-year tenure, yet she didn’t receive one complaint about it.

Paulyn Marrinan-Quinn SC was the first person to be appointed to the role of Defence Forces Ombudsman in 2005 and remained in that office until 2012.

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