The Government must reaffirm commitments to protect children on the first anniversary of the damning Murphy Report into clerical child sex abuse.

A CONCERNED resident has jumped to the defence of the midlands village at the centre of the Roscommon incest case in light of hard-hitting suggestions by the trial judge that locals stood by as the neglect and abuse took place.

WE in Mothers At Home agree fully with the sentiments expressed by Maireád Scannell (Letters, January 16) concerning the tunnel-visioned approach to child abuse by children’s rights organisations like One in Four and Barnardos.

The One-in-Four organisation is calling on Catholic bishops and priests to show true remorse for clerical child sex abuse.

AFTER successfully signing up Colm O’Gorman, the question now is who the PDs will approach next.

NEWLY-minted Progressive Democrat Colm O’Gorman yesterday insisted he wasn’t a “trophy candidate” for the party.

A LIMERICK man, who claimed he was sexually abused by a priest, took his own life two days after he had mediation talks with priests in the diocese, it was confirmed last night.

SENIOR clerics such as Cardinal Desmond Connell could be questioned in public about their responses to abuse complaints against priests in their charge under plans to be brought to Cabinet within a month.