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Sacred and Profane

"How does a society react when the worst things that happen in it are either caused or worsened by the ideas that society officially holds most sacred?"

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Conor Fitzgerald
Jun 23, 2025
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The author of the Casey Report on a recent Sky News appearance

During the week the Casey Report, which is an inquiry by the UK Government into “Group-Based Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse” - aka Grooming Gangs - was released. Whenever this topic bubbles back to the top of the headlines, I’m reminded of the long saga of clerical child abuse scandals in Ireland, which as an Irish person was one of the central cultutal events of my lifetime.

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