Irish Examiner view: Flawed report highlights a dangerous vulnerability

Public inquiries are not working: We need a credible process of accountability

Flowers and toys in the graveyard next to the folly on the lands of the former mother and baby home at Bessborough. Picture Dan Linehan

The public process of trying to establish facts has been, one cut at a time, devalued to the point where it is hardly fit for purpose. 

Public inquiries, with all their pomp and dustiness, are more often than not a keep-the-mob-quiet gesture rather than a moment of reckoning.