22/04 Fintan O’Toole: State has reached crisis of irresponsibility that resonates far beyond Grace’s grim story
-Fintan O’Toole: This 30-year debacle should finally bring home to us the reality that official accountability does not exist
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20/04 Image of Grace clutching her toy keys is a painfully fleeting glimpse of her humanity
-Amid more than 2,000 pages of dense legalese and Beckettian obsession with process, there are few glimpses of Grace and even fewer answers
- The Irish Times
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18/04 Ireland has spent almost €600m on tribunals and investigations
-‘Far too long’ Farrelly Commission investigation of ‘Grace’ case highlights length and cost of public inquiries
- The Irish Times
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16/04 ‘Grace’ case whistleblower says State response acts as ‘strong deterrent’ to others speaking out
-‘The State will try to crush you,’ says Iain Smith who first raised alarm about the case in a report in 2008
- The Irish Times
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16/04 ‘Grace’ wronged and harmed in many different ways in ‘absolute, abject failure’, HSE chief says
-Inquiry finds no evidence of sexual, emotional or physical abuse while woman was in care of family for 20 years
- The Irish Times
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