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

Former Ombudsman for the Defence Forces Paulyn Marrinan-Quinn.

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.