NORTHERN IRELAND
Belfast Telegraph
07 JULY 2014
The Clerical Abuse NI campaigner has vowed never to rest until the Stormont Executive takes responsibility for victims like himself failed by the state. He is demanding an overarching inquiry into clerical abuse, he tells Joanne Sweeney.
Q. What’s the current situation with the Clerical Abuse NI campaign?
A. The be-all and end-all of all of this is that we want a clerical abuse inquiry. I was abused by a parish priest in the village of Donagh in Co Fermanagh, where I grew up — Canon Peter Duffy. But I also have to join with all the other victims in Northern Ireland who have been left out of the Historical Abuse Inquiry that’s currently taking place in Banbridge, Co Down.
Q. What’s the current state of play?
A. I’m not hopeful. It’s very disappointing that the Northern Ireland government has refused, despite our best efforts, to even respond to the meeting that took place with Junior Ministers Jennifer McCann and Jonathan Bell well over a year ago now. I’ve recently written directly to the first and deputy first minister and the response has not been anything better than I’ve been receiving over the last year.
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