A former employee at the Letterfrack Reformatory in Connemara, Co Galway, has been acquitted of five charges relating to the indecent assault of a teenage boy at the industrial school in the 1960s.

A 71-year-old Christian Brother who pleaded guilty to the sexual abuse of 25 boys at Letterfrack Industrial School over a 15-year period was sentenced to 12 years in prison, with the last four ...

A 73-year-old former Christian Brother has gone on trial in Galway charged with the sexual abuse of a young boy at St Joseph's Industrial School in Letterfrack during the 1960s.

Letterfrack is 13km from Clifden, Co Galway, ... found that the reformatory system was completely inadequate and should be abolished in favour of group homes similar to family units.