Today marks five years since Irish journalist, filmmaker, and writer
Mary Raftery died of ovarian cancer, aged 54. Nominated in 2011 for
"NNI National Journalist of the Year" for her work in exposing the
clerical abuse of children in Ireland, Raftery was regarded as one of
the country's finest investigative journalists exposing not only
clerical abuse but abuse in the Irish childcare system and the appalling
conditions within the country's psychiatric units.
Raftery famously made the 1999 documentary “States of Fear” and the
“Cardinal Secrets” in 2002 and her work was widely viewed as having led
to the establishment of the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse. The
Commission reported its findings in May of 2009.
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