AUSTRALIA/NORTHERN IRELAND
BBC News
A team from the Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry is to make two visits to Australia to meet potential witnesses.
One of the visits will take place this month and the other some time in 2014.
Last month it was revealed that of the 355 individuals who have applied to speak to the inquiry so far, 57 are from Australia.
The inquiry is examining the extent of child abuse in the Catholic church and state-run institutions in NI.
It is due to report to the Northern Ireland Executive in 2016.
The first block of the public hearing, in January, will consider allegations relating to St Joseph’s Home, Termonbacca, and Nazareth House Children’s Home in Bishop Street – both in Londonderry and run by the Sisters of Nazareth.
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