Apologies if I've missed something by not having read every single post, but all this stuff about land inheritance and mothers seems a bit beside the point to me.

This went on throughout the history of the Irish state. For that to have happened for so long to so many children suggests to me that every priest must either have been doing it or have been aware of it happening. Which means that every Irish man who was trained and worked as a priest since the 1920s is guilty.

However, the report makes it clear that the blame goes further than the priests. The schools inspectors and other agencies of the state either ignored the problem or (more likely) didn't think it was a problem. The state was in the palm of the priests' hands and saw keeping the priests happy as being more important than keeping kids safe. Some might say it was a sign of the times but then so was gassing jews or lynching blacks - that doesn't excuse it.

The medical establishment must have known about it as well. Did no-one ever question how boys were turning up in hospitals with anal injuries from forced buggery or why 13 or 14-year old girls were getting pregnant? No, because the doctors were also complicit, along with the police and the politicians. And the whole mess stems from the moral and intellectual retardation of a sectarian state that was prematurely born out of partition (something that itself was made inevitable by the Easter rising of 1916 led by the homosexual paedophile Patrick Pearse).

It is clear that from its inception the Irish 'Republic' has been a corrupt and degenerate state. I hope that in the light of what has happened Gordon Brown or David Cameron will find the courage to clearly state that no British subject will ever be compelled to live under such a regime.

Every Irish priest is guilty.