ALTHOUGH the summary of the findings of the apostolic visitation to Ireland is a scant seven pages long, and although it is predicated on the “sinful and criminal acts” at the root of the clerical child sex abuse crisis, it nonetheless finds space on its final page for a statement which doesn’t directly link to the rest of the document.

LEADING members of the political and legal professions came together in Dublin yesterday for the funeral mass of one the country’s best-known barristers, Eamon Leahy.