THE administrator of the Catholic Diocese of Cloyne has issued what amounts to a gagging order on its former child protection officer, Monsignor Denis O’Callaghan, as it emerged a local priest is receiving text messages from women who claim he molested them.

The Vatican has today expressed its "surprise and disappointment" at some responses to the Cloyne Report into clerical sex abuse.

BISHOP John Magee last night stood accused of lying to the state over child protection procedures in the Cloyne Diocese, where he and his senior assistant failed a succession of victims of clerical sex abuse.

THE High Court has ordered the publication of all but a portion of one chapter of a report into the handling of child sex abuse allegations in the Catholic Diocese of Cloyne.

THE extent to which many people feel let down and angry was acknowledged by Cardinal Seán Brady yesterday as the Diocese of Cloyne accepted the findings of the HSE report into the management of child sexual abuse issues in the diocese.

JOHN MAGEE has been bishop of the Diocese of Cloyne since 1987 and in those 21 years he has seen his, and our, world change utterly.