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Sat 05 May 2009Shocking to think that nobody spoke out about abuse
The younger generation reading the Ryan commission report are entitled to ask their elders why they did nothing to help children, writes NOEL WHELAN.
IN THE opening pages of his recently published memoir Beyond Belief, Colm O’Gorman tells how in October 2001 while making the documentary Suing the Pope he returned to the Wexford parish of Poulfour, where his abuser Fr Seán Fortune had been the local priest. He recounts how he and the BBC programme team spoke to a local businessman and his wife who talked freely about how divisive Fortune had been and the trouble he caused in the parish.
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