NORTHERN IRELAND
Irish Examiner
De La Salle ran a home in Kircubbin in Co Down which is due to be examined by a public inquiry into historical wrongdoing.
Kevin Rooney QC, on behalf of the order, said: “They accept and deeply regret that boys in their care were abused. They wish to offer their sincere and unreserved apology to all those whom they failed to protect.”
Retired judge Sir Anthony Hart is chairing the UK’s largest ever investigation into child abuse in residential homes over seven decades.
Decades of physical, sexual and emotional suffering were inflicted upon the most vulnerable by the church, state and voluntary organisations, it has been alleged.
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