NORTHERN IRELAND
BBC News
The Congregation of the Sisters of Nazareth has told an inquiry it has to “put its hands up” over its involvement in a child migrant scheme to Australia.
The Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry (HIA) is examining child abuse in religious and state-run institutions in Northern Ireland from 1922 to 1995.
The current phase is examining what happened to children sent to institutions in Australia.
One hundred and eleven children were sent there by the Sisters of Nazareth.
On Wednesday, Sister Brenda McCall said: “The most eloquent apology, the most beautiful monument, no matter what money they receive, will never make up for what we took from them in sending them there.
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