Mark & David are two incredibly brave men. The depths of the damage done to them is beyond comprehension. What David shared tonight will have both touched & broken the hearts of the nation.
May Fr Tom O’Byrne rot in hell for what he subjected children to.
#LateLate #LateLateShow #BlackrockCollege

I wrote this in 2018 on the unforgivable nature of using clerical sexual abuse as a political or moral football #BlackrockCollege
#EndChildSexAbuseDay https://shelterofeachother.blogspot.com/2018/08/unforgivable-pope-francis-and.html?m=1

Child Safeguarding can be virtually unenforceable in Ireland when it comes to historical disclosures of abuse #CSA.
#BlackrockCollege revelations reminds us why this needs to change.
http://shelterofeachother.blogspot.com/2022/11/children-first-protecting-public.html #IrishTwitter #mastodaoine #politics #socialwork #psychology #Ireland

In 2016 I made a disclosure of #CSA at #UCD. It wasn't responded to.

Abuses at #BlackrockCollege show why handling retrospective disclosures matters. All those victims, and they never knew they were not on their own. Even brothers. We need to do better.

An Open Letter to Professor Colin Scott on why upholding the spirit, and not just the letter, of the law matters:

http://shelterofeachother.blogspot.com/2022/11/children-first-protecting-public.html

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