Institutional abuse has been ... along life’s journey to affect them so profoundly.” The decision to come forward, she says, is an enormous first step. Many people who have tried to speak ...

Jon McCourt (centre) said abuse survivors were angered by the judgement Survivors of historical institutional abuse ... Ireland has on the lives of local people". With no functioning Northern ...

The office for the Commissioner for Survivors of Institutional Childhood Abuse (COSICA) was established in December 2020 and since then has provided advice and support to more than 500 people.