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There is a sadness that envelopes anyone who takes the time to stroll around the former industrial school at Letterfrack. The sculpture in memory of those who suffered there in the adjacent church is also a silent reminder that screams out at us in a way the children who were incarcerated there were unable to do. In the dark days of the fifties, sixties and seventies, when hope was in short supply in Ireland, it was even less in abundance for those who were placed there often through no fault of their own, abandoned by the State to become the sexual and physical playthings of a brutish regime.

Leading figures from the fields of family law, child and family research, human rights, sociology, consumer protection will attend this year’s Business and Professional Women’s Club’s national conference in Galway.

The question of whether Irish legislation is sufficiently robust to protect families will be one of the topics discussed by the chairman of the Adoption Authority, Geoffrey Shannon at the upcoming BPW National Conference on the Family.

Professor Pat Dolan, a leading Galway academic, has been confirmed as a keynote speaker in the forthcoming BPW conference which focuses on issues surrounding the family in 2011.

A copy of the book Child Law was presented to President Mary McAleese by its author, Galway city native Geoffrey Shannon, illustrating the esteem in which the much-praised work is held.