This Life: The lost years
In a small, beautiful corner of north-west Donegal, whole generations of Irish men have had their childhoods stolen by horrific sexual abuse, writes Kim Haughton.
Gweedore, a Gaeltacht area of small villages on the Atlantic coast of north-west Donegal, is an isolated rural paradise of glens, loughs, boggy, barren expanses and sandy beaches. Capped by the quartzite hulk of Mount Errigal, its stunning beauty belies an inconvenient truth: sexual abuse against hundreds of children went on behind closed doors here for decades.
The region forms part of the Raphoe diocese which is made up of 33 parishes with ...
