Action needed on child abuse, not just words

TALK is cheap.

In response to the decades of clerical child abuse to which the Church authorities and law makers acquiesced, I hereby declare that the time for revolutionary speeches has long since passed and action is needed.

Although Mr Kenny’s speech is welcomed by many, including victims of clerical child abuse and the Dalia Lama, it fails to address the central issue: the failure on the part of the Irish legislature to foresee and act on the part of its people where situations of abuse were being reported and ignored.