Irish Examiner View: Who benefits when truth over Mother and Baby Homes report is silenced?

Best tribute to the victims of institutional abuse would be to reform and repeal gagging order system

The first decade of this century was bookended by two of the most significant documents in the making of contemporary Ireland. The commission that led to the Ryan Report began its work in 1999, the Cloyne Report was published in 2011. 

They, and so many others like them, unearthed decades of institutionalised abuse, grand hubris, and a largely silent, hypocritical society.