The Roman Catholic Church in Ireland may just now be beginning to understand how much it relies on trust - now that it has so little of it. Yesterday’s publication of the truly shocking 2,600-page report by Ireland's Commission to Inquire Into Child Abuse found that rape was "endemic" in more than 250 Irish Catholic care institutions from the 1930s to the 1990s, and that the church in I...

Yesterday Ireland was rocked by the publication of the Ryan Commission report on the cruelty of the so called 'child care' regimes experienced by tens of thousands of Irish children between the 1940's and the late 1980's. The care of these children, most of them from working class and/or deprived backgrounds were 'outsourced', to use a modern term, to various Religious orders of the Roman Catholic...

In light of the at-long-last publication of the damning report into institutional child abuse by the Catholic Church in Ireland, my best comment is to point you to two articles and a poem by Sean Matgamna, who has first-hand experience of the brutality of the Christian Brothers. ===== Savage Violence in Irish Schools: Why Did They Stand For It? 9 February, 2005 The little boy, Tommy, perhaps eight...

Slugger O’Toole has reported widely on the Ryan Commission Report into decades of child rape by homosexual priests in the Republic of Ireland. The video below is of a victim, a former Fianna Fail Councillor & Mayor,  describing on RTE’s Questions & Answers programme how he was abused viciously by priests and how the Government

A MAJOR inquiry into the abuse of children in institutions run by the Catholic Church and the state is to be launched in Northern Ireland.

Thousands of children supposedly educated at home by their parents are at risk of abuse, neglect, forced marriage, sexual exploitation or domestic servitude, the Government said yesterday. Tsk, tsk. Don’t be so mealy mouthed. That these children are not given up to hte tender mercies of the State is itself child abuse. Of course it is. Being taught

The British Association for Adoption and Fostering (BAAF) claims that thousands of children in the UK may be being unlawfully fostered, and could be at risk of abuse (that does not mean that the children are being abused). The law requires that the state be informed if a child is looked after by anyone other than a close relative. BAAF is urging people to report neighbours who are caring for child...

A 42 Year old Nonce who is said to be dangerously radioactive may have fled to Ireland ahead of his trial on Child Pornography Charges. He was undergoing Radiation treatment for a thyroid condition and skipped bail. Now thankfully I can’t get inside the minds of a Paedophile but why in the name of God’s arse did you go to Ireland? Yes after a fashion it’s an English speaking nation, but ever...

You'd think that after the revelations globally about child abuse within the Catholic Church that you've heard everything. Not so, new allegations are surfacing in Germany regarding their 'boys only boarding schools'. The first accusers came forward a month ago in Berlin. Since then, the list of schools and victims who say they were scarred and haunted by alleged abuses has gro...

The BBC are up in arms about an investigation (read: calling up a few solicitors) into the hiring of lawyers by parents to help get their child into their preferred state school. In the UK, we have a system of state schools paid for through theft. Access to these schools is ostensibly 'free at the point of use'. Schools offer a fixed number of places each year and ration out places with ...