David Ryan speaks to the media after meeting with Pope Leo in the Vatican on Monday. Photograph: Colm Flynn
David Ryan is the first Irish abuse survivor to meet Pope Leo since the latter was elected to the papacy last May.
He is also the first of a tranche of thousands of men sexually abused as children in schools across Ireland who came forward following the broadcast in November 2022 of Blackrock Boys, an RTÉ Radio 1 documentary.
It detailed the se
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