Unending, inconclusive public inquiries another form of abuse

In four reports, they haven’t made a single finding of fact. We knew more about what happened in that foster home before this inquiry than we do now, writes Fergus Finlay.

THIS newspaper, at the end of 2015 and the start of 2016, first highlighted a case of abuse in the South-East of Ireland. The abuse had continued for 20 years, up to about 2009. It was John McGuinness and John Deasy who used their positions on the Public Accounts Committee to highlight the potential cover-up of that abuse.