'Spotlight' opens in Irish cinemas this coming Friday

The Spotlight film on the cover up by the Catholic Church of sexual abuse in the Archdiocese of Boston by priests comes to the Irish screen this week.

It was the work of an editorial team at the Boston Globe that unearthed the systematic and institutional cover up by the church. At the time Cardinal Bernard Law was archbishop in Boston.

The editor of the paper at the time, Marty Baron, now edits the Washington Post.

On the work they did at the Globe he says:

"I hope it causes the public to reflect on the necessity of holding powerful people and institutions accountable, and on the nature of investigative reporting and what's required to do it right.

"I hope it causes all of us, including people in the press, to listen to people who are at the margins of society, who have been routinely left voicless, who actually have something very powerful to say."