Serious failures in the handling of child sex abuse allegations against a priest in the Diocese of Cloyne are expected to be published tomorrow.

THE Catholic Bishops Conference, in a synchronised set of four announcements in March 2009, advised that Pope Benedict XVI appointed the Archbishop of Cashel & Emly as Apostolic Administrator to the Diocese of Cloyne at the request for Bishop John Magee.

The Chief Executive of One in Four Maeve Lewis has said she believes the former Bishop of Cloyne does not understand the gravity of what happened in his diocese.

The former Bishop of the Cloyne diocese, who was criticised in last month's report into the mis-handling of abuse cases last month, has returned to Ireland.

PRIESTS in the Diocese of Cloyne have yet officially to discuss reaction to the Cloyne Report, two months after it was published.

A PRIEST from the Diocese of Cloyne has called on diocesan officials to provide details of the 1999 unfair dismissal case, which was withdrawn after Bishop John Magee reportedly paid the former employee £40,000 and demanded a confidentiality clause.

BISHOP Magee retains the title Bishop of Cloyne even though the governance of the diocese passed to the apostolic administrator from March 2009.

ONCE it was: “Who shot JR?“

SCORES of people left St Colman’s Cathedral following afternoon Mass but only a handful were willing to say anything about what went on inside.

Children’s Minister Frances Fitzgerald has vehemently ruled out exempting the Catholic sacrament of confession from long-awaited rules on mandatory reporting of child abuse.

PRESSURE is growing on Bishop John Magee to return home to deal with the fallout from the damning Cloyne report, as the Government demands answers from the Vatican regarding its “inappropriate intervention” in child protection here.

YESTERDAY’S Cloyne Report is shocking — yet in many ways not shocking at all.

The Vatican’s unhelpful approach to clerical abuse inquiries in Ireland has been branded a disgrace by Taoiseach Enda Kenny.

Abuse victim: Kate's story

A PARISH priest admitted abusing three children for a number of years and when he was younger, he said fondled up to six girls.

THE report deals with one of only two cases where the complaint was made concerning a person who was still a child.

THE commission found there was no concern shown for the protection of children in the case of a priest who received an 18-month suspended sentence after pleading guilty to one of three counts of gross indecency last year.

WHILE there was no allegation of child sexual abuse made against Fr Naal, or evidence to support such an allegation, the commission said the failure to carry out a proper inquiry was wrong from a child protection point of view.

Abuse victim: Maria’s story

BISHOP Magee offered to promote a priest accused of molesting a girl after the priest threatened to sue him for defamation.

BISHOP John Magee bears “primary responsibility” for the “inadequate and inappropriate response” to complaints of clerical child sex abuse in the Diocese of Cloyne.

Structures have been put in place to ensure the devastating revelations of the Cloyne Report never happen again, the cleric overseeing the diocese pledged tonight.

The Vatican’s attitude to the Church’s efforts to introduce child protection measures in Ireland was not helpful, Cardinal Sean Brady admitted.

Bishop Magee’s second-in-command in Cloyne has admitted he sometimes had more concern for abusive priests than their victims.

The Cloyne abuse report includes an account of some interaction between Bishop John Magee and a teenager in the diocese. The case is detailed here in a lengthy extract from the report.

The former Bishop of Cloyne, John Magee, has issued a statement in which he sincerely apologises to all those who were abused by priests in the diocese.

A retired Catholic bishop has been singled out for failing to follow Church rules on reporting clerical sex abuse in an Irish diocese as recently as three years ago.

A SUPPORT group for victims of clerical abuse have received a letter from the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) warning them to halt their campaign seeking a prosecution of the notorious Father B in the Cloyne report.

An Archbishop tonight apologised to a victim of clerical abuse after a priest pleaded guilty to gross indecency while hearing confession.

TWO women from north Cork have made official complaints to gardaí that they were both abused as children by the same two priests.

THE second priest at the centre of 2008 National Board for Safeguarding Children (NBSC) report has been re-interviewed by gardaí in North Cork earlier this week and an updated file is to be sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions.

THE resignations of three more Irish bishops will be accepted by the Pope in the coming weeks following the departure yesterday of the Bishop of Cloyne.

THE resignations of three more Irish bishops will be accepted by the Pope in the coming weeks following the departure yesterday of the Bishop of Cloyne.

CARDINAL BRADY is a learned man and the many bishops, priests and lay people who have worked with him over the course of his esteemed career speak of him with the highest regard.

CARDINAL BRADY is a learned man and the many bishops, priests and lay people who have worked with him over the course of his esteemed career speak of him with the highest regard.

THE Catholic Church has refused to comment on reports that a priest is to be tried by a secret clerical court over allegations of child sex abuse in the diocese of Cloyne.

A PRIEST who left the Diocese of Cloyne over its handling of child sex abuse allegations has criticised the decision to allow a close friend of Bishop John Magee to take over as administrator of the diocese.

The senior cleric asked by the Pope to run the Diocese of Cloyne has said that he wants to restore trust and do everything he can to help the victims of clerical sex abuse in the Co Cork diocese.

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.

APART from the pictures of hands with rosary beads accompanying a few of your reports, I have found myself generally agreeing with your coverage of the abuse revelations concerning the diocese of Cloyne, of which I am a fairly committed member. Like many ordinary Catholics I have been very upset by the revelations.

I HAVE always been proud of my roots in Cobh, Co Cork, and I love the cathedral where I was baptised and confirmed.

CARDINAL Sean Brady has apologised for causing widespread offence in publicly backing beleaguered Bishop John Magee.

THEY are the foot soldiers — the men who are always expected to come running if someone is seriously ill or dying in the middle of the night.

WHERE did Cardinal Brady look for inspiration when he declared in Killarney that Bishop Magee should remain in his see?