IRELAND
Irish Independent
CLAIMS of a series of mystery deaths at the Letterfrack Industrial School in Galway which were covered up have been rubbished by a senior member of the Christian Brothers.
There was "no shred of truth" in suggestions that boys were secretly buried in the grounds of the school, said Brother David Gibson, the provincial leader of the St Mary's Province of the Christian Brothers.
At a hearing of the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse (CICA) yesterday it emerged that a letter written by a brother from the school questioned "experiments" on pupils by a doctor.
Br Gibson said he did not know what a letter written by Br DB O'Shea to a supervisor in August 1960 regarding a local doctor meant.
"I can not afford to take any risk where the health of boys is concerned. I fear at times Dr [. . .] is too anxious to experiment on the pupils of this school," it read.