Beleagured bishop stands down from Pilgrimage Trust

ONE of the bishops strongly criticised for failing to deal with clerical child sex abuse in Dublin resigned from his position as president of the Irish Pilgrimage Trust yesterday.

Bishop Dermot O’Mahony said he had been considering his position at the trust, which organises trips to Lourdes, among other activities, for a number of months.

He came in for especially strong criticism in the Murphy Report, which named him as one of the auxiliary bishops in Dublin “who dealt particularly badly with complaints” of child sex abuse in the archdiocese.