THE child protection tsar in Cloyne wrote to clerical abuse victims to tell them he had done everything he could to help them obtain justice — even though the Cloyne report revealed the opposite to be true.

THE administrator of the Catholic Diocese of Cloyne has issued what amounts to a gagging order on its former child protection officer, Monsignor Denis O’Callaghan, as it emerged a local priest is receiving text messages from women who claim he molested them.

Cardinal Sean Brady, the head of the Catholic Church in Ireland, has described the failings outlined in today's report into clerical abuse in Cloyne as "deplorable and totally unacceptable".