NORTHERN IRELAND
BBC News
A man who alleges he was abused in a County Down children’s home almost 60 years ago has welcomed an apology but said it does not go far enough.
Conor Ryan said he was physically and sexually abused by staff at Rubane House in Kircubbin in the late 1950s.
Mr Ryan said his younger brother was also abused at Rubane House, but did not confide this in him until shortly before his death three years ago.
The home was run by a Catholic Church order – the De La Salle Brothers.
Lifelong scars
Mr Ryan told BBC Good Morning Ulster that at one stage he was hospitalised as a result of the order’s abuse.
“I ended up in hospital in Newtownards, I had my head split open with a hurley stick with metal bands on it.”
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