Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore has accused the Vatican of missing the point after the Holy See rejected claims it had frustrated a State inquiry into clerical abuse.

All-Ireland primate Cardinal Sean Brady has welcomed the Vatican's response to the Cloyne Report and claimed it conveyed "profound abhorrence" for the abuse.

AN archdiocese that failed to inform Cloyne Diocese that a priest returning to Ireland on “health” grounds was the subject of two prior sex abuse claims has secretly paid out AUS$80,000 (€61,399) to his alleged victims.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny today launched an unprecedented attack on the Vatican, accusing Catholic hierarchy of putting the preservation of the church's reputation ahead of child rape victims.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has told the Dáil that the Cloyne Report on clerical sex abuse "excavates the dysfunction, the disconnection, the elitism that dominates the Vatican today".

BISHOP John Magee’s bid to cover the cost of child abuse claims was bolstered by two controversial takeover deals for local radio services in the county.

THE Archbishop of Dublin has accused bishops of “hiding” unpublished child abuse reports rather than making them public.

The senior cleric overseeing the Diocese of Cloyne has today apologised to victims of abuse in an open letter to parishioners.

THE Cloyne abuse revelations make it clear that further investigations into child sex assaults by priests must be extended to the rest of the country, campaigners have said.

THE Cloyne Diocese hierarchy spent 10 times more on legal fees and advice than it did on counselling services for abuse victims who came forward.

The Pope’s ambassador to Ireland has been ordered to get answers from the Vatican on damning revelations that it allowed priests to ignore the law.

The Vatican’s unhelpful approach to clerical abuse inquiries in Ireland has been branded a disgrace by Taoiseach Enda Kenny.

UNCERTAINTY surrounds the date of publication of the Dublin Archdiocese investigation into clerical abuse in the Diocese of Cloyne.

VICTIMS of clerical sex abuse in the diocese of Cloyne have expressed absolute fury at the decision to draft in a UCD psychologist to prepare priests for the public outcry once the Murphy Commission report into abuse is published.

A CLINICAL psychologist is coming to Cork this weekend to prepare priests from the diocese of Cloyne for the expected public outcry following publication of the Dublin Archdiocese report into the handling of child abuse in the diocese.

THE Bishop of Limerick Donal Murray’s expected resignation from his post could be announced today, as attention turns to who will succeed him in the short term.

THE Government needs to enact laws to bring teachers accused of behaving inappropriately towards children before a new teaching council, the Children’s Ombudsman has claimed as the children’s body saw a rise in complaints made to it.

A full inquiry has been ordered into allegations of clerical child abuse at the Diocese of Cloyne in Cork.

ARCHBISHOP Diarmuid Martin has threatened to implement his own child protection system in a pointed statement criticising the structures adopted to avoid abuse scandals.