Courts would have treated witnesses better than Mother and Baby Homes Commission

Survivors, adopted people and their advocates have had to fight repeatedly, painfully and publicly: for preservation of archives, for recovery of recorded testimony, for public accountability and even for accessible copies of the report.

The State's latest inquiry into institutional abuse is refusing the ordinary protection of law to those living with the continuing injuries of “past” abuse, writes Máiréad Enright

There’s a word the Government uses to describe the Mother and Baby Homes Commission Report; “legalistic”.