The loneliness of the long-term justice campaigner

Ensuring governments and large companies are held accountable for their failures is often far more difficult than it should be, writes Clodagh Finn

Naoise Connolly-Ryan, whose husband Mick died in a Boeing Max air crash in 2019. Picture: Larry Cummins

When Taoiseach Micheál Martin apologised last week to those who suffered hell on earth in industrial and reformatory schools, there was one glaring omission.

He apologised for historic abuse and neglect, but not for presiding over a Government that allowed four people fighting for health, housing and educational supports to go on hunger strike for 51 days, on its own doorstep.