Abuse survivor David Ryan, who featured in the RTÉ documentary 'Blackrock Boys', has said he received an apology from Pope Leo XIV during a meeting with the pontiff in the Vatican.

"He felt my pain. He hasn't experienced my pain, but he knows what pain I had gone through with my family," Ryan said.

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