The clerical sexual abuse survivor at the centre of the week-long controversy over Cardinal Seán Brady has said there will be “no healing” until the senior cleric resigns as Catholic Primate of All-Ireland.

The Vatican has miserably failed the victims of child sex abuse within the Catholic Church, Martin McGuinness has claimed.

The timely call for an independent inquiry into child abuse deserves to be supported by all sides embroiled in the controversy raging over Cardinal Seán Brady’s handling of the appalling sexual exploitation of children by the evil paedophile Fr Brendan Smyth.

Cardinal Seán Brady insisted yesterday he had no intentions of stepping down, although he issued a public apology to Brendan Boland, a survivor of paedophile priest Brendan Smyth.

The leader of the Catholic church in Ireland has apologised to a victim of paedophile priest Fr Brendan Smyth.

Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin yesterday called for an independent international commission of inquiry to be established into the crimes of the late Brendan Smyth.

Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin has called for an independent investigation into past allegations of clerical sex abuse.

The minister for Social Protection is the latest in a line of politicians who have questioned Cardinal Seán Brady’s role at the top of the Catholic Church in Ireland.

The Government has ratcheted up the pressure on an increasingly isolated Cardinal Seán Brady to resign over his failure to tell authorities about the abuse of five children by paedophile priest Brendan Smyth.

Specialist detectives are reviewing claims that Cardinal Sean Brady knew in 1975 that five children were being abused by one of the country’s most dangerous paedophiles, Fr Brendan Smyth.

Cardinal Brady has been derided for his role in allowing Smyth to prey, but the role of the abbot at Kilnacrott is near perverse, writes Claire O’Sullivan

Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore added to the pressure on the country’s most senior cleric Cardinal Sean Brady today over his role in a secret child abuse inquiry.

It seemed incredible in 1994 that the cover-up involving the paedophile activities of Fr Brendan Smyth had been going on for 19 years by the time it brought down the government of Albert Reynolds.

The head of the Catholic Church in Ireland, Cardinal Sean Brady, has vowed to stay on as he attempted to distance himself from a secret inquiry into one of the country's most dangerous paedophiles.

Ireland's most senior cleric Cardinal Sean Brady said today his role in a 1975 investigation into paedophile Brendan Smyth had been exaggerated.

Cardinal Sean Brady has today issued a statement in response to regarding new revelations regarding alleged mishandling of allegations against paedophile Brendan Smyth.

The Vatican's chief investigator has today insisted that Ireland's most senior cleric has no case to answer regarding renewed allegations of mishandling of allegations against the paedophile Brendan Smyth.

Cardinal Sean Brady is expected to give a statement later about claims in a BBC documentary that he failed to act in 1975 to save children from being abused by paedophile priest Fr Brendan Smyth.

The leader of the Catholic Church in Ireland was warned by a 14-year-old victim of Fr Brendan Smyth that the paedophile priest was likely abusing five more named children — but failed to take action.

Canon law expert Thomas Doyle has criticised the head of the Catholic Church in Ireland for his failure to investigate allegations that five more children had been abused by paedophile priest Fr Brendan Smyth.

CARDINAL Seán Brady has reiterated his offer to meet a survivor of clerical child abuse and make a personal apology to him, a spokesman has confirmed.

Cardinal Sean Brady made an undisclosed settlement today with the victim of notorious paedophile priest Fr Brendan Smyth.