For too long Ireland managed to keep hidden from the outside world the shame of the ‘mini holocaust’ that was perpetrated on it’s most vulnerable citizens…it’s children.

Today it is well known that for many years tens of thousands of children in that country suffered abuse of the most appalling nature at the hands of those who were entrusted with their care; teachers, priests, nuns. At the helm of this ship of madness and sadism was the clergy of the Roman Catholic Church.

Today in Dublin a march of solidarity took place to remember every single one of those innocents who were defiled and abused in over 250 church-run schools and institutions; those who survived marched for the lost and hurt child inside them, they also marched for those who have since died and taken their scars to their graves. They wore a white ribbon – the symbol for the demand for change – and carried a child’s shoe, symbolising those children who were lost and never rescued.

Supporting their cause is vital; SOIAI  (Survivors of Institutional Abuse in Ireland ) exists to exact justice for those who suffered – from the Irish Govt and most of all from the Roman Catholic Church. To this day, despite pathetic and sparse admissions of guilt, the wealthiest religious institution on earth refuses to compensate survivors or properly punish those clerics and nuns who committed these atrocities. Many of them are still alive, still working with children and are still unpunished because these abuses continue today. The Ryan Report has revealed the extent of the horrors inflicted on Irish children by religious orders.

Please sign the petition  and add your name to their fight for justice. In 1916 at the Proclamation of the nation of Ireland these words were written:

“Cherishing all of the children of the nation equally”…

It is time to start putting those words into action.

Related Article: ‘When it was open season on children in Ireland’ - May ‘o9.