Laffoy resignation - Government guilty of hypocrisy

The reticence on the part of the Government to make public the letter of resignation from Ms Justice Mary Laffoy as chairperson of the commission investigating child abuse, became very clear yesterday and for the reason which most people presumed.

It put the blame for her decision to resign unequivocally on the Government’s lack of co-operation and interference.

Categorically, she said bluntly, among other things, that a range of factors over which the commission had no control had “together produced a real and pervasive sense of powerlessness”.