At least 233 men have made allegations of abuse against 77 priests from the Irish Spiritans
“I think we’ll spend the next week engaging with victims to get their perspective on this and the type of approach they would want Government to take,” Mr Martin said.
“It is sickening and it is shocking what has happened in terms of the scale and nature of the abuse, terrible trauma visited on so many people in their early lives when they needed protection, and when their parents were putting them into a place of care and protection which did not transpire. “We have to identify the best way forward in a victim-led way, and I think inevitably that means some form of inquiry will have to be established here.
“We have to take on board the views of victims and also identify the most effective way to conduct an inquiry.”The abuse allegations go back as far as the 1970s and involve schools that were managed by the Holy Ghost Order, including Dublin’s prestigious Blackrock College. Asked whether it would be limited to Blackrock College and schools run by the Spiritans, Mr Martin responded: “These are the issues we will have to examine – a module-based approach might be the most effective and timely in terms of an effective type of inquiry that would be time-limited because victims would be conscious of that, and very anxious that whatever we do will have the best interests of victims in mind, and that does mean inquiries that are timely, that can conclude in a reasonable...
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