THE Rape Crisis Centre has said the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) should meet the victims of clerical abuse in Cloyne to discuss his decision not to seek prosecution against the alleged serial paedophile in the 2008 Cloyne report.

THE Director of Public Prosecutions has decided against prosecuting former Bishop of Cloyne John Magee for reckless endangerment.

ANOTHER woman has made a formal complaint about the alleged serial paedophile priest at the centre of the National Board for Safeguarding Children’s report into the Diocese of Cloyne.

CLERICAL abuse victims have sharply criticised the Dublin Archdiocese Commission of Investigation for its refusal to investigate a second priest who they say abused them as children.

CLAIMS that the child protection delegate in the diocese of Cloyne handed over a confidential file containing allegations of abuse to the priest at the centre of the allegations are being investigated by the Catholic Church.

THE report into the handling of abuse allegations in the Cloyne diocese has been delayed until the autumn.

A CAR belonging to the diocese of Cloyne’s former child protection delegate was vandalised overnight last weekend.

THE CONFERENCE of Bishops is due to gather in Maynooth on Wednesday and Thursday in their first meeting since the Dublin Archdiocese Commission of Investigation report was published.

ONE IN FOUR executive director Maeve Lewis has described the HSE’s ongoing audit of Catholic Archdioceses’ handling of child protection cases as a “futile exercise” as the Ryan and Murphy reports have both shown the Church is incapable of self monitoring.

ABUSE victim support groups have reacted with dismay at revelations that files on 56 priests suspected of child sex abuse and handed to the Dublin Commission of Investigation will be destroyed.

IT is not vain to suggest that resilience is a characteristic of the Irish. How else would we have survived the economic, political and social travails that shaped our history and will define our future?

THE publication of a shocking report into clerical child abuse in the Archdiocese of Dublin is facing further delays after the report was again referred to the High Court.

A COUNSELLING service for survivors of sexual abuse is reporting a surge in calls which it links directly to the publication of the Ryan report earlier this year.

ALL but one chapter of a shocking report into sexual abuse by priests in the Dublin Archdiocese is expected to be released next week after the High Court yesterday cleared the way for its publication.

The High Court has today ordered that one chapter referring to one person in the Dublin Archdiocese Commission of Investigation report should not be published.

The High Court will decide later this morning whether the contents of the Dublin Archdiocese Commission of Investigation report can be published in full.

SUPPORT agencies struggling to cope with increasing numbers of victims of sexual abuse have appealed to Justice Minister Dermot Ahern to delay the publication of the Dublin Archdiocese report into child sex abuse.

THE Health Service Executive is carrying out a comprehensive review of all child protection records and files throughout Cork city and county to check for notifications of clerical sex abuse.

A MAJOR overhaul of structures and of senior personnel has taken place in the diocese of Cloyne since its dismal child protection record came to the fore at Christmas.

THE Catholic Archbishop of Dublin Most Rev Diarmuid Martin has, for some time now, been preparing us for the report of the Dublin Archdiocese Commission of Investigation into clerical sex abuse.

Thousands of children were abused by Catholic priests in Ireland over a 30-year period, a shocking report on clerical sex abuse is set to reveal.

A senior Catholic Bishop has asked his congregation to pray for victims of clerical sex abuse as he stepped down to help a state inquiry probing allegations against some of his priests.

A PRIEST who once served in the Diocese of Cloyne has written to the Pope’s representative in this country, the papal nuncio, seeking the resignation of the Bishop of Cloyne, John Magee and the diocese’s former head of children protection.

THE head of the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre (DRCC) has called for every diocese in the country to be investigated by the Dublin Archdiocese Commission of Investigation.

The release of a Health Service Executive report into child protection practices and allegations of clerical child sex abuse in all dioceses, to be published today, is expected to reveal that bishops failed to give details of individual abuse cases.

A potentially bitter court battle involving two of Ireland’s most senior clerics in a dispute over the release of secret church files was withdrawn today.

A “FAST track” probe into child sex abuse by priests in the Dublin archdiocese has been extended by another year, it emerged yesterday.

VICTIMS of clerical sex abuse in the Catholic archdiocese of Dublin are being encouraged to contact a formal Government inquiry into the handling of such cases.