Survivors of abuse deserve far more than a ‘deafening silence’

Kerry Lawless warns that only media pressure will force an appropriate response from the Church of Ireland, writes Victoria White.

IT’S THE biggest sex abuse case ever taken against an individual in this country. Some of it happened in the biggest church on the island. But it doesn’t matter because the Church is not Catholic.

Patrick O’Brien’s up to 1,000 counts of abusing young boys in St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin over 40 years is not a national story because it can’t be used to tell the story of adults from Catholic homes and because they are the majority they are the only people who count.