We shouldn’t turn our backs on Protestant survivors of abuse

THE boy’s shoe laces were tied together.”

So I’d heard. More than 30 years ago, when I was at school in Dublin. One of my friends said it to me and I never forgot.

I hoped that it wasn’t true. And it’s still possible it wasn’t. However, now it’s been said to me twice I’m beginning to think it was, especially as the second person who said it to me was Colm Begley who was at the Westbank Children’s Home with my schoolmate when he was damaged for life by falling off a train.