Derry convent added to Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry

A Derry convent is to be investigated by the Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry (HIA).

The Good Shepherd Convent in the Waterside area of the city is one of six additional institutions added to the inquiry, its chairman, Sir Anthony Hart (pictured), has announced.

It brings to 22 the number being probed.

Nazareth House Children’s Home on Bishop Street St Joseph’s Boys’ Home, Termonbacca, in Derry are among those being investigated.

State-run Harberton House Assessment at Irish Street and Fort James Children’s Home, both in the Waterside area of the city, are also included in the probe.

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