Apology to be issued today to NI survivors of historical institutional abuse

Survivors of historical institutional abuse in Northern Ireland will finally receive a public apology this lunchtime.

Stormont ministers will say sorry – five years after a public inquiry into 22 children’s homes found shocking levels of mistreatment between 1922 and 1995.

Margaret McGuckin was just three when she and her siblings ended up at Nazareth House in Belfast:

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