NORTHERN IRELAND
BBC News
The chairman of the Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry (HIA) has paid tribute to almost 100 former child residents of care homes.
The inquiry has now completed its first year of public hearings into institutional abuse.
During that time, it has heard from 98 victims and survivors of abuse.
Most of them were in the care of the Catholic Church at homes in Londonderry and Kircubbin in County Down.
The homes were: St Joseph’s Home, Termonbacca, Derry; Nazareth House Children’s Home, Derry and De La Salle Boys’ Home, Rubane House, Kircubbin.
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