Kenny should apologise for hounding abuse victims

ENDA Kenny cuts a sorry figure when cornered. But the apology from the Taoiseach to abuse victim Louie O’Keeffe was as necessary as it was overdue.

Ms O’Keeffe, one of 21 girls abused at a Cork school in the 1970s, had to fight successive Irish governments at home and abroad for a decade and a half to achieve justice.

After winning her landmark case at the European Court of Human Rights, she said: “The worst of all is that it takes an eight-year-old girl 15-and-a-half years to get this result; it’s simply not good enough.