A Short History of Freedom of Information in Independent Ireland | The Irish Story

A Short History of Freedom of Information in Independent Ireland The Irish Story: "However it was not only in matters of state security that the culture of secrecy prospered. In 1930 the Free State set up a committee under Minister for Justice Carrigan, into sexual offences in Ireland. What they found was profoundly shocking to to a new state that prided itself on its Catholic morality. From 1927 to 1929, Garda Commissioner Eoin O’Duffy told them, sexual assaults on females had risen by 63% and on males by 43%. O’Duffy believed that around 6,000 children had been sexually abused in this three year period alone"?