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There are few places in Ireland where walking begins so effortlessly at the edge of a village and unfolds so quickly into something elemental and expansive as it does in Letterfrack. Sitting at the threshold of Connemara National Park, the village feels less like a starting point and more like a gentle invitation into landscape—one that shifts from quiet woodland to open mountain, from reflective shoreline to wind-cut summit, often within the space of a single afternoon.

The children who suffered at the Letterfrack Industrial School should not be forgotten and Seanad Éireann should hold a debate in Letterfrack to commemorate the victims of abuse.

A report published yesterday after a ten year delay by the Child Abuse Commission highlighted that sexual abuse was ‘chronic’ in the Christian Brothers’ industrial school at Letterfrack.