DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland's Prime Minister Enda Kenny apologised on Thursday to a woman who suffered sexual abuse by a teacher while at a Catholic-run school in 1973, after a European court ruled the state had failed to protect her.
The European Court of Human Rights this week ordered Ireland to pay compensation to Louise O'Keeffe, ruling the state had not met its obligation to protect children, even though it must have been aware by then of sexual abuse of children by adults.
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