A letter of confession by a Christian Brother who abused boys at a Limerick school was concealed for decades, Mary Lou McDonald has told the Dáil.
The Sinn Féin leader said six men who “suffered horrific daily abuse” by Sean Drummond at Creagh Lane National School during the 1960s were in the public gallery during Leaders’ Questions on Wednesday.
“These men were failed catastrophically as children and treated appallingly as survivors, and for years they had to fight the state for recognition, justice and full compensation,” she said.
McDonald said they “endured a lengthy Garda investigation” and the state claims agency “persisted in challenging the survivors”.
She continued: “Later it emerged that Drummond wrote a confession letter dated as far back as February 1970 in which he admitted abusing pupils in Creagh Lane School.
“Correspondence shows that the Christian Brothers in Dublin and in Rome were fully aware of the abuse...
