Letter to the Editor: Industrial school survivors still suffering

I am a survivor of the Irish State run Industrial Schools and I attended the event on May 11 in Trinity College. I observed that Mr Finlay was in attendance throughout but was unaware he was a columnist for your paper.

Yes he was on the agenda to close the conference but at what price to state in his column of May 14 that “Survivors of abuse are often obstreperous (meaning unruly, noisy, uncontrollable, wild, rebellious, mutinous, undisciplined, unmanageable)”. All other media were not present during the conference.