IRELAND
Irish Independent
By Ralph Riegel
Saturday July 14 2012
AN abuse victim has won a legal victory after the European Court of Human Rights agreed to hear her case against the Irish State.
Louise O’Keeffe (46) confirmed to the Irish Independent last night that the Strasbourg-based court has agreed to hear her complaint despite vehement objections from the State.
If Ms O’Keeffe wins her action, it could open the floodgates to a raft of appeals from abuse victims denied compensation from the State because the incidents occurred in church-run or independent schools.
Ms O’Keeffe was abused as an eight-year-old in a Dunderrow primary school in Cork in 1973 by then principal, Leo Hickey.
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