QandA May 25th - response to question on Ryan Commission Report

Don't try to deflect responsibility from the Irish people for what happened. Reinventing history won't do anything. This was a 20th century issue and it was the Irish capacity for collective thought and group conformity that allowed this to happen, regardless of who did it. The church facilitated it but the individuals who did it acted alone and they were known about from the very beginning but no one listened so don't try to export the sole responsibility to *Rome* or any other body.

This has gone on for centuries, this vile institution has used & abused Irish people for centuries, the most evil crime of all is child abuse.
They also gave england permission to invade ireland in 1169 & gave their kings title Lord of Ireland.
Also, they gave William of Orange pipers to let into battle against the Irish in 1690 at the boyne.
You can believe in the Lord and not have anything to do with Rome.
People of Ireland, break connection with Rome now. lets have our own reformation

Ireland slowly but surely growing up. There will be more of this to come out in the years to come. It's funny that the people who are saying things like *I'm never going to mass again* and *makes me ashamed to be Irish*....are the same people who made life so miserable for my humanist father all those years ago. The majority of Irish people are predisposed towards collectivism and group thought, which is a politician's dream but a nightmare for individuals and freethinkers.

i m not going to mass/ church ever again
they should......ooooooo

i wanted to hug that man so much...why does the catholic church constantly insist on turning a blind eye?? thank you for the subtitles as being hard of hearing i miss alot of what people say. and why cant i find the ryan report anywhere to read??

I was beaten with ropes at my catholic school in Cyprus but this man has been tortured and raped humiliated and turned into a wreck by these people . My heart goes out to him.

Ireland should get its act together and take the catholic hand out of its arse.

tis with a politcal system and a police force that aided and abetted a church to abuse kids for decades makes right-minded people sick to the core to be irish.

I attended a Christian Brothers School (primary & secondary) south-east off Ireiand.I must say i did see a few beatings,those Brothers were brutal,we got off pretty light`ly.

The Pope is the Anti-Christ.
One day Vatican City will burn. It is evil to the core.
In the name of Jesus, bless those poor victims Lord, who suffered the abuse from the Priests and Nuns of the Church of Satan.

this whole thing is very similar to the cover-up at celtic park in glasgow. celtic are a staunch catholic football team. they are a roman catholic institution in scotland with the catholic church leader using their name to bring people to chapel. they too covered up sexual abuse of many young boys. their most famous manager jock stein was one of the main culprits of covering up the crimes