Hundreds of top secret police documents about the former Kincora Boys’ Home have been declassified and handed over to a public inquiry, a lawyer has revealed. Some 26 boxes of
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A judge has rejected a bid to overturn a decision to exclude the Kincora Boys’ Home in east Belfast from a child abuse inquiry at Westminster. Mr Justice Treacy told
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Hollywood film director Tom McCarthy said he believes Ireland is leading the way in addressing the Catholic Church child sex abuse scandal. But he warned the Church must do everything
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A public inquiry into alleged child abuse will turn its attention today to a residential home run by evangelical Anglican missionaries in Ireland. The Irish Church Missions was established to
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An inquiry into historical institutional child abuse in Northern Ireland will recommend that victims are paid compensation for the trauma they endured, its chairman has said. Retired judge Sir Anthony
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Self confessed paedophile priest Fr Brendan Smyth found peace with God, an inquiry has been told. In a letter written in 1995 after his conviction for sexually assaulting more than
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A notorious paedophile priest told a doctor he had sexually abused hundreds of children, an inquiry has heard. Fr Brendan Smyth made the admission in February 1994 – the year
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Northern Ireland’s public inquiry in to child abuse is to investigate three more state-run institutions, the chairman said. The Historical Institutional Abuse (HIA) inquiry has extended its work to cover
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A child sex abuse victim has claimed he was molested by “very powerful people” at several key locations connected to an alleged VIP paedophile ring. Richard Kerr, who was a
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A former resident of a notorious boys’ home has welcomed a court decision to grant him permission to challenge the Government’s refusal to include the facility in its forthcoming child
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