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Sat 05 May 2009Retracing a lonely path
MEMOIR: Beyond Belief By Colm O’Gorman Hodder and Stoughton, 307pp, £13.99
COLM O’GORMAN’S story and personality are well known to the Irish public. He is the Wexford man who suffered abuse in the early 1980s at the hands of Fr Seán Fortune, who later committed suicide as he was about to face criminal charges. O’Gorman went public with his story and was one of the first people to draw attention to sexual abuse in the Catholic Church in Ireland and the way senior figures in the Church covered it up. His work changed attitudes to sexual abuse and led to significant improvements in child protection practice and law.
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