Alliance Support Group


August 2005 Archives

ARTANE INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL

Florence, "Former Artane Child Prisoner" Jim Beresford stated recently that for some years he has been researching the education provided at Artane Industrial school especially the period after 1942 but has been unable to get the Artane Primary Cert exam...
Read the full article »

Lobby group set to sue over religious accused

Kitty Holland 31/08/2005 A lobby group representing religious, who say they have been falsely accused of sexually abusing children, is planning to take legal action against the State on behalf of those "falsely accused" before the Residential Institutional Redress...
Read the full article »

Views sought over abuse payments

George Jackson 29/08/2005 The administrator of St Eugene's Cathedral in Derry yesterday asked Mass-goers to participate in a confidential survey in a bid to determine their views on how the parish should pay ?40,000 to the victims of clerical...
Read the full article »

Missing Paragraph?

Why is this paragraph not included in later editions of the Katleen O'Malley Story? ?I?ve been to three meetings of survivors and it?s fecking this and fecking that. It?s the wrong image, but they are so angry and so...
Read the full article »

Childhood interrupted

MEMORIES: Kathleen today Sunday August 28th 2005 ONE day when we were all at home, I heard Mr McCabe call out for one of the local boys, Francie Byrne, to go and fetch him some water from the tap....
Read the full article »

TO BE CONTINUED

Childhood interrupted ADVERTISEMENT MEMORIES: Kathleen today ONE day when we were all at home, I heard Mr McCabe call out for one of the local boys, Francie Byrne, to go and fetch him some water from the tap. I...
Read the full article »

ARTANE INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL

Sunday Independent January 16th 2000 Sir Recently, there has been a lot of criticism of the industrial school system. Artane Industrial School, in particular, has come in for very severe criticism. Among the allegations levelled at Artane are: (1) standard...
Read the full article »

Sisters celebrate new recruit

Saturday August 20th 2005 A 46-YEAR-OLD voluntary care worker yesterday became the first Irish woman in a decade to take her vows as a nun for the Sisters of Our Lady of Charity order. Beaming as she posed with...
Read the full article »

Website for abuse victims registered 3.6m hits

Tuesday August 16th 2005 THE ONLINE support service for the sex-abuse help organisation One in Four recorded a massive 3.59m hits since its website was relaunched just over one year ago. The director of the organisation, Colm O'Gorman, said...
Read the full article »

Ferns report expected to shock but new transparency 'must be welcomed'

Tuesday August 16th 2005 THE upcoming Ferns report, detailing clerical sex abuse in that diocese, will be "shocking" and "devastating" but nonetheless ordinary Catholics should welcome it when it is published, the editor of a leading religious magazine has said....
Read the full article »

Kathy?s Story

The book, Kathy?s Story details the alleged horror suffered by the author Kathy O?Berne at the hands of the Religious in Magdalene laundries and various other institutions. Despite the fact she has produced no evidence whatsoever to back up...
Read the full article »

Fury at the attack on Christopher Cosgrove

The Let Our Voices Emerge Charity (Support for those undergoing Allegations of child abuse) have reacted with fury at the attack on Christopher Cosgrove, one of the so far - four Sligo teachers - to be convicted of child...
Read the full article »

Priestly life over, admits sex claims clergy

Friday August 5th 2005 AN Irish priest who has successfully challenged extradition proceedings against him in the USA to face child sex abuse charges, is protesting his innocence but he has admitted that his life as a priest is...
Read the full article »

a flood of allegations

Brothers have still to explain why they agreed to settlement 04/08/2005 The Marino affair unleashed a flood of allegations, writes Se?n Flynn, Education Editor. About 150 students graduate annually from the Christian Brothers- controlled teacher training college at Marino Institute...
Read the full article »

No misuse of funds found in Marino report

No misuse of funds found in Marino report Se?n Flynn, Education Editor 04/08/2005 An independent report, commissioned by Minister for Education Mary Hanafin, has found no evidence to support allegations of financial impropriety at the Marino teacher training college...
Read the full article »

Nuns may sue RTE over sex abuse claim on radio show

Wednesday August 3rd 2005 AN order of nuns is considering suing RTE after the Vincent Browne show carried an interview with a woman who claims to have been physically and sexually abused while in a Magdalene laundry, a claim...
Read the full article »

Abuse claims may now reach ?800m

01/08/2005 The number of people applying to the State's compensation scheme for institutional child abuse and neglect is expected to exceed 9,000, after a near doubling in recent months in the rate in which people are applying to the...
Read the full article »

Home |About Us |Our Services |Online Resources |Family Tracing |News |Forum |Donate |Contact Us
?