Missing chance to redress tragic child abuse tale

ON Nov 27 I got a very sad phonecall from Bernadette Fahy and a text from Paddy Doyle.Both Bernadette and Paddy are amazing people who are survivors of institutional abuse.

They contacted me to tell me of An Bord Pleanála’s decision not to go ahead with the proposed site for the memorial Journey of Light beside the Garden of Remembrance.

The memorial was one of the recommendations of 2009’s Ryan Report into child sex abuse. It documented and validated the stories of survivors of the horrendous physical, sexual, and emotional abuse of our children in state-run institutions in Ireland in the last century.