After ‘a hell of a year’ Tusla chief Fred McBride looks to the future

After ‘a hell of a year’, the chief executive of Tusla, Fred McBride, is optimistic about the future for the child protection agency he heads up.

After ‘a hell of a year’, the chief executive of Tusla, Fred McBride, is optimistic about the future for the child protection agency he heads up. He talks to Noel Baker.

A LOW fog was hanging over the maze in the gardens of the Royal Hospital, Kilmainham, a fairytale image visible from Fred McBride’s fifth-floor office. A person could easily get lost in there. “Plenty of times,” he says, “I feel like it.”