The commission, which was established in 2000, found that children had suffered neglect, physical and emotional abuse, while sexual abuse was endemic in all boys’ institutions. But in a sense the State is us because the civil servants are all sorts of Catholic Christian Brothers’ boys, everything else and so on. In fairness to the Irish State, Ryan recalls how in the 1930s it “set up the Cussen Commission. “The Christian Brothers made a big submission to them. But whatever about 200, 800 was monstrous; 800 suited the Christian Brothers – there was a huge income from it.”It was “hugely” profitable, says Ryan, who was educated by the Christian Brothers in the O’Connell Secondary School on North Richmond Street in Dublin’s north inner city.

Source: The Irish Times May 18, 2019 04:52 UTC