FORMER LETTERFRACK RESIDENT CANCELS EXHIBITION ON INSTITUTIONAL ABUSE

Date Published: 10-Jul-2009

An exhibition by a former Galway industrial school pupil, focusing on institutional abuse, which was due to be unveiled tonight in Portlaoise, has been called off.Mannix Flynn, a well-known artist and author, and recently elected Dublin city councillor attended St. Joesph's Industrial school in Letterfrack.The Independent councillor has been outspoken in child abuse since the publication of the Ryan Report last month, and felt his exhibition was being censored.