NORTHERN IRELAND
The Irish News
FORMER Bishop of Derry Edward Daly has defended the Sisters of Nazareth for doing what “nobody else was doing” and caring for children during years of “abominable” poverty and violence in the city.
Dr Daly was giving evidence to the Historical Inquiry into Institutional Abuse yesterday and said he had “always admired” the sisters’ work but, like other community leaders, had taken them “for granted”.
The senior cleric said in his 36 years in active ministry as diocesan priest and bishop he had received one complaint about the Sisters of Nazareth.
Dr Daly said he had no involvement in the running of the two homes the order operated in the diocese and had been unaware they were under-staffed and under-resourced.
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