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Fintan O'Toole: It would be easier if the men who do these things were not men but beasts

Roddy Doyle: ‘The work I’ve done? If I wasn’t me, I’d be impressed’

The Dubliner on the savagery of school, how being famous is easy in Ireland, and getting older

Pope phones Argentinian who spoke of abuse by Irish priest

President of Argentina a past pupil of same Christian Brothers school

South Dublin principal feels ‘betrayed’ by land sale

Clonkeen College head calls for State to take over school amid row with Christian Brothers

Diarmaid Ferriter: Tuam scandal was due to a unique obsession

Ireland’s long moral panic led to extraordinary and dehumanising situations

The life-long prisoners of State-funded, church-run institutions

Many women were born in State homes then sent to industrial schools and laundries

Rooms with a view could be the future of school design

Inchicore NS renovation and extension brings nature close to the classroom

Matt Williams: Ireland’s green dynamos prove impossible is nothing

Defence won game but signs of more expansive attack is the real cause for optimism

Fintan O’Toole: We should not replace one form of forgetting with another

Commemorating Rising should not be at the cost of amnesia about the failure of its ideals

Cardinal Pell: Church made ‘enormous mistakes’ over abuse

Pell’s evidence showed a man remarkably incurious about suspicions raised with him

Gaelic Catholic nationalism and corporal punishment in 1966

‘I thought he had finally managed to wrench my ear from its socket’

Former Christian Brother jailed for abusing two boys in Cork school

Edward Bryan (62) pleaded guilty to indecently assaulting boys while he was a teacher

President cites youth unemployment as Europe’s biggest challenge

Higgins says it would be ‘very wrong’ to marginalise young people

Stranger than fiction: when crime captures the imagination

Nicola White’s new novel ‘In the Rosary Garden’ was inspired by the Kerry Babies tribunal and the Ann Lovett case. We recommend some other real-life fiction from Ireland and abroad

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