Clerical Sexual Abuse Revelations Implicate Gardai
The Murphy Report was published in 2009, following an investigation into child sexual abuse by priests in the Catholic archdiocese...
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Mary Raftery, Journalist, Dies
Mary Raftery, investigative journalist, has died at 54. Raftery's States of Fear documentaries exposed the violence, both emotional and physical, as...
Was Archbishop John Charles McQuaid a Paedophile?
There was a time when Planet Ireland orbited its own smug, self-satisfied star, held on course by a mysterious force...
The IF-Word. Bishop John Magee Still in Denial About Cloyne Abuse
You have to love those bishops with their mental reservation. They never go anywhere without a spare IF or BUT...
Enda Kenny’s Speech Criticising Vatican
Toiseach Enda Kenny today delivered a speech in the Dáil, in which he accused the Vatican of attempting to frustrate an...
Report by Commission of Investigation into Catholic Diocese of Cloyne
The Cloyne diocese report has been issued and a download is available here. Among other findings, the commission found that...
The Magdalene Laundries Scandal
As usual, it has taken outside pressure to force acknowledgement of the imprisonment, torture and degradation inflicted on Irish women...
Abuse Survivors Refused Entry To Diarmuid Martin’s Service of Repentance in Pro-Cathedral
This is the moment when a disabled abuse survivor and the daughter of a woman imprisoned in the Magdalene laundries...
Liturgy of Lament and Repentance — Bishops To Wash the Feet of Sexual Abuse Victims
Archbishop Diarmuid Martin and Cardinal Sean O’Malley from Boston, are saying some prayers today, asking forgiveness for the way their...
Murphy Commission Report — Chapter 19 Tony Walsh. Summary
I have tried to summarise chronologically the recently published chapter 19 from the Murphy Report on the serial sex-abuser priest...
