THE Catholic Church handed over properties worth €28.6 million, including a three-acre site in Dublin 4 and St Colman’s Home in Cobh, Co Cork, as part of its deal to compensate abuse victims.

I COULD not help crying when I read the letter from George Longhurst (Irish Examiner, May 18) who bravely faced up to his American bishop in the pursuit of justice for a 10-year-old victim of clerical abuse.