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TDs call on Taoiseach to address legacy of abuse in Wicklow orphanage

TDs call on Taoiseach to address legacy of abuse in Wicklow orphanage
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Bethany Home survivor says excluding thousands from redress means 'shame will always hang over Ireland'

Patrick Anderson McQuoid is among the thousands of survivors ineligible for redress under the Government’s controversial scheme. ....

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More Mother and Baby Home survivors to take legal action if they're excluded from Redress Bill

There is mounting pressure on the Government to extend the redress scheme to cover extra survivors. ....

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Dr Sarah-Anne Buckley: The story of Derek Leinster and the Bethany Home tells us we have more to learn

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Dr Sarah-Anne Buckley: The story of Derek Leinster and the Bethany Home tells us we have more to learn
NUIG historian Dr Sarah-Anne Buckley says the recent Commission report into mother and baby homes needed to have a deeper look at Protestant institutions and the neglect of children like Derek.
By Dr Sarah-Anne Buckley
Sunday 24 Jan 2021, 8:30 AM
Jan 24th 2021, 8:30 AM
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Dr Sarah-Anne Buckley
DEREK LEINSTER WAS born in the Bethany Home, Dublin in 1941.
For the past 30 years, he has campaigned tirelessly for the inclusion of Bethany and other Protestant institutions into State inquiries and redress schemes.
It would be hard to have studied or engaged with the history and experience of I ....

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Letters to the editor: Abuse not exclusive to Catholic institutions

Letters to the editor: Abuse not exclusive to Catholic institutions
Your columnist Fergus Finlay can bash Catholic Church all he likes but he needs to aim some blows at the Protestant Church
An inscription on the monument in Mount Jerome Cemetry to honour all the children who died in Bethany Home between 1922-1949 pictured this morning. Picture: Colin Keegan, Collins Dublin
Sat, 23 Jan, 2021 - 08:41
Commenting on the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Inquiry report, your columnist Fergus Finlay said: “The Catholic Church ruled us formed our attitudes, told us what we were allowed to think.”
Not Derek Leinster in the Bethany Home, sent to a dysfunctional family that abandoned him, it didn’t; not the children farmed out as labour from the age of five by the Nursery Rescue Society, it didn’t; not the children emotionally, sexually, and physically abused in Smyly’s Homes, it didn’t; not the Westbank Orphanage children transformed into professional ....

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