NORTHERN IRELAND
The Guardian
Henry McDonald Ireland correspondent
theguardian.com, Monday 27 January 2014
The UK’s biggest ever child abuse inquiry will hear evidence on Monday from victims who were abused in two Derry homes run by Catholic nuns.
Based in Banbridge courthouse in Northern Ireland, the historical institutional abuse inquiry will focus on the maltreatment of children in Nazareth children’s home and Termonbacca, both run by the Sisters of Nazareth.
The order of nuns has already issued an apology to victims at the tribunal.
Christine Smith QC welcomed the apology the nuns made at the hearing earlier this month.
But the senior counsel for the inquiry added: “This less than wholehearted and rapid response on the part of the congregation has caused considerable difficulties to the work of the inquiry.
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