IRELAND
Irish Mirror
By Sylvia Pownall
14 MAY 2018
Presidential hopeful Kevin Sharkey has called on Pope Francis to apologise to the people of Ireland on behalf of the Catholic Church.
The 56-year-old claimed the Vatican has left us “adrift” in the wake of clerical sex abuse scandals.
The artist and former TV presenter, who wants to become the country’s first black president, was born in a mother and baby home.
He suffered a childhood of abuse after being adopted and sent to an industrial school in Galway.
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