When I wrote about the abuse allegations at my old school, Blackrock College last month, it would have been hard to imagine the extent to which the issue of abuse in schools would continue to dominate the national media. Too often in recent decades we’ve been drawn to consider the scale of the horror done to generations by the neglect of institutions in the state that are supposed to protect us. The church has, for decades now, been in the dock; rightly so but, to this point, insufficient attention has been paid to an institutional failure which goes to the…

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