A ministry for reform - An engine to drive our recovery

OF course the Roscommon abuse report was harrowing, of course it made anyone who ever held a child angry.

Unfortunately, we knew this would be the case ever before the report was published. Evidence given at the parents’ trials suggested another litany of betrayal and torture was about to be unveiled.

When the Roscommon report was published, frighteningly more than two decades after the children were first abused, it took its place in the considerable record of this society’s failings. And there is no comfort in the idea that many of these are unintentional.