NORTHERN IRELAND
Belfast Telegraph
20 MAY 2014
A former Catholic bishop has said nuns at the centre of the UK’s largest ever public inquiry into institutional child abuse were taken for granted.
Edward Daly, 81, expressed admiration for a religious order caring for thousands of troubled children amid the violence and “abominable” poverty of 1960s Northern Ireland.
The Sisters of Nazareth have apologised for “shocking and harrowing” physical, sexual and emotional abuse and neglect at two residential homes in Londonderry.
Bishop Daly said in 36 years of ministry he only heard one complaint, from a woman separated from her brothers as a child and sent from a home to Australia, but had no involvement in running the centres.
He said: “They were doing work that needed to be done, that nobody else was doing.”
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