Investigation Committee

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At Tuam the fifth interim report found that scientific analysis on underground chambers 'suggests that at least some of the chambers in which human remains were found were at some stage used to receive sewage'.
Inquiry report into mother and baby homes may be delayed

Publication of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation’s final report could be delayed due to its exceptional length The document is on(...)

There are other issues which haven’t been fully ventilated. Mr Justice Sean Ryan alluded to one of these when saying that religious congregations may complain about “a barrage of criticism on the basis of unproven or extravagant or extreme . . . allegations” which may be contained within the records but did not feature in the commission’s final report in 2009. Photograph: AP
Government caught between contesting passions over retention of abuse files

From rural Ireland, Tomás has spent most of his turbulent life abroad. The detritus left behind included intermittent employment, a failed marriage, e(...)

Justice Seán Ryan said ‘it appears that the total given in the report was derived by adding the yearly figures for the population in the institutions but that did not take account of the fact that children were counted in each year of detention’. Photograph: Peter Morrison/AP
Child abuse inquiry admits to ‘seriously erroneous statistic’

New figures indicate that the number of children who went through institutions investigated by the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse is about a q(...)

The Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse report in Dublin in 2009. Photograph: AP Photo/Peter Morrison
‘Shocking, shocking:’ Justice Sean Ryan on the abuses of children uncovered in his report

On May 20th, 2009, the Commission into Child Abuse published its shattering 2,600-page report. It investigated 215 residential institutions for chi(...)

One of the things that stuck Mr Justice Seán Ryan’s mind during the years when the commission heard evidence was the extraordinary number of people held in institutions over those decades in Ireland. Photograph: Crispin Rodwell/The Irish Times
'Anybody awkward was put somewhere. Ireland was closed, defensive, xenophobic'

Preparing to publish his investigation into Ireland’s religious-run residential institutions 10 years ago this month, Mr Justice Seán Ryan knew that h(...)

Artane Industrial School in Dublin which was run by the Christian Brothers and was named in the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse report.
We have a culture of not listening to abuse survivors

The Ryan report, published 10 years ago this month, was based on the testimony of over 1,000 people who told the Commission to Inquire into Child Abus(...)

Perhaps reminders of difficult parts of the national experience should also be present on All-Ireland Sundays in Croke Park. Photograph: Dara Mac Donaill
Diarmaid Ferriter: Artane Band name a useful reminder

When I see the Artane Band perform at Croke Park, the industrial school established in Artane in 1868 usually crosses my mind, however fleetingly. I c(...)

Approximately 1,400 complainants gave evidence to the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse’s investigation committee. Photograph: Peter Morrison/AP
Abuse documents not to be destroyed despite assurances

Legislation is being prepared at the Department of Education to preserve testimony given in confidence by abuse survivors to the Ryan commission an(...)