The slow, tortuous unravelling of the Grace case
Six years and three reports later, we are no wiser about what happened to a vulnerable young woman and why the HSE may have failed to protect her
In 1995, Colm O’Gorman made a complaint to the Garda Síochána in Wexford about having been raped by the priest Seán Fortune. That case would prove to be a tipping point in the belated awakening of the country to the abuse of children by Catholic clergy, and the systemic cover-up of that abuse by the Church. Fortune had long been protected by the ...