VICTIMS support groups and clerical sex abuse victims have accused former Auxiliary Bishop of Dublin Dermot O’Mahony of questioning the validity of the Murphy report and said that if this attitude is widespread within the Church, it will never be a safe place for children.

VICTIMS support group One in Four has accused the Vatican of making a “wholly inadequate” response to the Murphy report and failing to accept responsibility for the cover-up of sexual abuse worldwide.

VICTIMS with serious injuries from accidents occurring in north Tipperary will from this week bypass Nenagh General Hospital and be transferred directly to the major trauma centre at the Mid-Western Regional Hospital in Limerick.

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.

VICTIMS yesterday accused the Archdiocese of Portland of ducking its responsibility in scores of sexual abuse cases after filing for bankruptcy.

VICTIMS of clerical child sex abuse are set for another let-down with the disclosure that the Government is planning only a non-statutory inquiry on foot of the Bermingham report on the Fr Sean Fortune scandal.