Heartbreaking & wrong

Taoiseach apology in Dail to survivors of institutional abuse

- BY BAIRBRE HOLMES

THE Taoiseach has “unequivocally apologised” to the survivors of childhood abuse at industrial and reformatory schools in Ireland.

Micheal Martin issued the apology in the Dail on “behalf of the Government, the State, and all the citizens of the State” for “the profound sorrow for the terrible pain and abuse suffered”.

Addressing survivors, he said: “What you endured on a daily basis as innocent children was harrowing, heartbreaking and wrong.”