How one voice shattered the shameful silence on clerical abuse: ‘You don’t know what happened there. You haven’t the foggiest… You don’t know the hurt’

When Mary Raftery’s groundbreaking 1999 RTÉ series States of Fear aired, one line, narrated by Áine Lawlor, stood out. “So far, only a fraction of the potential damage caused to children by these paedophiles is even known about.”