IRELAND
Irish Examiner
Wednesday, February 19, 2014
Catholics, and many who are not, must be heartily weary of the never-ending litany of cases involving people abused by clerics.
Just yesterday a man abused by a Christian Brother in the 1980s was awarded €370,000 in a case that revealed extreme cruelty.
Part of reconciling the horrors of the past with the possibility of the future is acknowledging a debt and then discharging it.
It is therefore very unfortunate that so many women who suffered well-documented hardship in the Magdalene laundries are still waiting for compensation promised by the State.
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