50-year-old man sues Irish State for being kept in conditions of 'quasi-servitude' as a farm boy

This is what happens in a crypto-theocracy, when church and state are not radically divorced. In the Ireland of the 1930s, you effectively had citizens being unofficially incarcerated by the state for infringements of Canon Law edicts. Ecclestical totalitarianism. A sort of Roman Catholic variant of a Stalinist Party. Phew! I'm glad we got back to the future. No more men in black patrolling the cold corridors of industrial schools and/or reformatories.

there are thousands like him from the industrial schools in ireland

Health Service Executive, Ireland’s Minister for Health, and the religious order, have asked the courts to strike out his case on the grounds of inordinate and excusable delay." How convenient. What a lame excuse? The man wants justice , not the law and law is not justice.Of course under canon law there is nothing included there for victims, only for the men in dresses etc to escape justice.

They asked his dad(the shhep) if he was a good boy -Dad said he was Baaaaaaaa.....D