Welcoming survivors from the Christine Buckley Centre to the Aras today, a charity which supports those who suffered trauma while in industrial schools and other historic institutions, Michael D Higgins condemned those who turned a blind eye to the “trauma inflicted on children by the failures of the Irish state”, and “distortion of religious ideology” that perpetuated the abuse.
https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/president-criticises-those-who-perpetuated-and-ignored-institutional-abuse-923289.html
https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/president-criticises-those-who-perpetuated-and-ignored-institutional-abuse-923289.html
