Put the perpetrators in front of a judge and send the colluders to prison if found guilty.
‘Never Again’ does not excuse their criminal activity. Thousands died because of their action and inaction.

Too many good people remained silent, – that’s all it takes for evil to prevail.
Let us all learn to speak up in future, when we learn of such inhumanity.

oldest trick in the book Brendan it happens every day in our courts suppression of evidence.

Little as I want to defend slave-dealers, McAleese accepted that there was no attempt to cover up the records. Women were routinely given different Christian names when they came into the labour camps and were never known by their surnames. It’s not surprising that we can’t find a lot of records.

Have been saying for a while now that we would have been better off staying under British rule in the long run. Not to blame those that fought for our independence, as they did what they thought was best for the country, but we should be pointing fingers at DeValera and every other government that colluded with the Catholic Church throughout the years.

It’s time we fully re-examined our history. Who were truly heroes and villains, who we might still be able to prosecute, why so many of our citizens stayed silent and it’s about bloody time we told the Catholic Church to leave this island once and for all

Unfortunately your wrong it was going on for 200 years the report only looked at the start of the state, 1922

Oh I know the British were no angels, one only needs to look at how their government kidnapped & shipped children to the Catholics in Australia up until the 1980s to understand that.

But us Irish have never fully loosened ourselves of the Catholic Church’s grip, we still pander to this group as they distort facts in the press to suit their agendas, they don’t pay any tax here and they refuse to apologise or compensate their victims. We had a chance at creating a proper republic back in the Twenties but blew it, by the time Dev was genuflecting at Rome’s altar we were lost and would have been better off back under the rule of London.

What a backward third world country we really are, that Roman Catholic group of evil, sadistic bastards should be declared an illegal organisation once and for all. I have a son that’s due to make his holy communion in a few months. I was seriously thinking what harm can it do, if only to appease my in laws. After hearing about another cover up by this gang, it just isn’t gonna happen.

I don’t have kids yet Rodrigo, but I would never have them baptised to begin with, I understand your fear of in-laws, a lot of people in the same boat, and the excuse of enrolling them in schools. I say to myself, when my kids grow up and are old enough, and they ask me why I had them baptised, for me to say, because I was afraid of not doing it, would be a shameful answer and would not set a good example for my kids. It’s easier said than done though, the church still casts a long, dark shadow over all of us even in 2013.

My little boy is in second class and not making his communion there are no provisions for him, he just does extra reading during religion. Most of the kids that are making there communion come from non believing and non practicing catholic families, what kind of example is that to give children? Makes me sick that this is facilitated in state schools. all done in the name of tradition, my little fella feels like the odd one out. how anyone can still support the church after all the scandals and prejudices is beyond me. Rant over.

@ Caoimhe, The ‘soi-dissant’ Catholic heirarchy have little to do with real Christianity.
The ways of Christ are all you need to learn in order to be a good person.
Christ said ;- ” remember me ” ( when breaking bread & drinking wine).
The ‘communion’ is simply a ceremony to help us remember Christ’s sacrifice on the Cross.

The church isn’t broke and they are the ones who should be coughing for any compensation.

They need to be compensated big-time, 50/50 from church and govt.

That would require guts Collette something none of them have.

Surely money wont heal the suffering those poor girls suffered..money isnt the answer here..its the need for recoginition of there suffering and understanding and making sure that they get all the councelling and support that they truely deserve.

@gerry Devine.

Let the survivors decide whether compensation would help to rebuild their lives or not, not you. I think at this stage they deserve the right to make up their own minds.

A Agree with you Garth. I;ve turned my back on the Christian religion. It time that the government told the Catholic church where to go and stop interferring with the state. The whole thing about the Magledene sisters
and the industrial schools is DISPICABLE The Catholic church is rich, they should pay the money in compensation
to those poor girls and boys in the case of industrial schools. I will shortly put on any snail-mail letter if things don’t move into the 21st century The Catholic Republic of Ireland. That’s what it’s starting to look like, a
Fundermentist theocractic state

Too busy looking for a pro abortion article he can wage war against.

You can be sure if there wouldn’t be such hatred in posts if the Catholic Church was not involved.

They do count gerry adams has brought this issue before the dail. and has been in contact with some of the people involved.

Good on you Hilda. I hope church and state compensate survivors appropriately and i wish you all the best.

What apology?

I hope minister noonan does not get on the news tonight as he did when It came out about goldenbridge and said all the women there were single mothers can someone tell me how can somebody be so cruel as the survivors were looking at it not all were single mothers some were orphans and went into it as children but all came out damaged and I hate that word but it is true

Enda Kenny stood up in the Dáil today and give a half-hearted and totally unconvincing “apology”. His demeanor, his language, was a that of a man who lacked the humility let alone the leadership to address the hurt of these unfortunate women who were forced into concentration camps. We the people of Ireland are deeply deeply ashamed at what went on in our country. Our leaders are not that bothered.

Agreed peter. Another shameful day for Ireland. The taoiseach has discredited this country even further by not apologising. More importantly his failure to apologise as the nations political leader is wholly disrespectful to the women who suffered at the hands of church and state. State and church must compensate.

What’s to discuss Rory? For you to assume that people coming on here expressing their complete contempt for the Roman Catholic Church are all trolls says much about you. You obviously do t feel as upset about this whole situation as we do.

“this is just trolling”

What has Enda got to do with it? He has been a TD since 1975

…And there is no vitriol to vent ? What on earth prevents the grovelling apology that this whole sorry history merits .A nation newly freed by the blood of brave men and women has been discredited by its servants , and ill served by those whose whole existence was supposedly underpinned by love of God and their fellow man ! UGH !

. @Rory Conway people like you are what went wrong. More worried about money than people and no compassion