IT was not good enough for Archbishop Diarmuid Martin to ask bishops implicated in the horrific report into child sex abuse to examine their conscience, founder of One in Four Colm O’Gorman said yesterday.

The Catholic hierarchy in Ireland was granted immunity to cover up child sex abuse among paedophile priests in Dublin, a damning report revealed today.

THE Bishop of Ferns has compared the suffering of child abuse victims in the diocese to the crucifixion of Christ.

Wexford’s Eamonn Boland and co-driver Damien Morrissey (Subaru WRC) continue to lead after the conclusion of the second leg of the Circuit of Ireland Rally today.

TWO companies owned by Meath-based businessman Patrick Kerrigan have paid out almost €4 million to the Revenue Commissioners in unpaid taxes and penalties.

POPE Benedict XVI has appointed Fr Denis Brennan as the new Bishop of Ferns, a diocese which has been rocked by sex scandals.

Pope Benedict XVI has appointed Dr Denis Brennan as the new Bishop of Ferns.

THE resignation of Father Maurice Dillane, 73, as a curate in Co Galway after fathering a child has again put the Catholic Church in the public spotlight.

THE weekend proposal by Bishop of Killaloe Dr Willie Walsh that Catholic priests should be allowed to marry is not a new one, although it is something which has always been anathema to Rome.

A bishop who called for priests to be allowed to marry will not fear any potential sanction from the Vatican, it was claimed today.

The Bishop of Killaloe Willie Walsh has called on the Catholic Church to allow priests to marry.

Ireland is the most media-saturated country in the world. But that saturation doesn’t supply variety. For example, radio, on the afternoon the Ferns Report came out, offered an infinity of choices but no alternative. If you went for talk radio, you got a bucketful of Ferns, no matter where you went on the dial.

POLITICIANS in Wexford have been criticised for failing to voice support for victims of cleric abuse in the diocese of Ferns during a decade of public disquiet about the controversy.

BISHOP Brendan Comiskey purchased an insurance policy in 1989 to protect the diocese of Ferns against liability arising from sexual abuse claims despite the fact he repeatedly failed to adequately deal with allegations of abuse against numerous priests.

RISKING a scandal in the parish, a priest took a teenage girl into his presbytery.

ANYONE who fails to act when they believe children are at risk of sexual abuse will face criminal prosecution under laws to be introduced by the Government.

A SUICIDE note left by Fr Sean Fortune was never disclosed to the Garda and instead destroyed by a priest who feared it was a deliberate attempt to destroy Bishop Brendan Comiskey.

THE Gardaí responded in a “wholly unsatisfactory” manner to one of the most infamous clerical child abuse cases in the Diocese of Ferns, the Inquiry report has stated.

THE Ferns Inquiry identified more than 100 allegations of abuse by 21 priests over a 40-year period beginning in 1962.

THE diocesan response to allegations of child abuse in Ferns, although varied over a span of 40 years, comes in for severe and damning criticism as successive bishops failed to protect vulnerable children from priests they knew to be abusers.

THE Ferns Inquiry report is the first report of its kind in Ireland, following the first completed investigation by the State into how a church body conducted its affairs.

The damning report on sexual abuse of young people by priests in the diocese of Ferns is a scathing indictment of failure by the Catholic Church on both a national and international level to prevent the predatory activities of paedophile priests.

The sanctity of the parish church in Monageer, Co Wexford, was shattered by a priest who molested 10 girls on the altar as he heard their confessions, the Ferns Inquiry revealed today.

The Bishop of Ferns has issued an unreserved apology to the victims of clerical sex abuse in the diocese.

Some 21 Catholic priests savagely sexually assaulted young boys and girls in parishes across Co Wexford in Ireland during the past 40 years, a scathing report into clerical abuse revealed today.

The diocese of Ferns is expected to emerge today as one of the worst in the world for clerical child abuse.

SPECULATION about the content of the imminent report into clerical sexual abuse in Wexford is not just inaccurate, it is also unhelpful, according to one of the support groups for victims involved in the probe.

KEY witnesses in an inquiry into clerical sexual abuse in Wexford says the bishop who managed the diocese at the time should not be made a scapegoat in the ongoing State probe.

SERIOUS questions remain unanswered now the Catholic Church has settled a legal action with an alleged victim of clerical sexual abuse in a Wexford diocese plagued by allegations, a victims’ group says.

FORMER Bishop of Ferns, Dr Brendan Comiskey, who resigned over his handling of sex abuse allegations against the late Fr Sean Fortune, is expected to give evidence to the inquiry into sex abuse in the diocese later this month.

AN INQUIRY into clerical sexual abuse in a Wexford diocese will take more than a year, with an interim report most likely to be published in March, its secretary has estimated.

LATEST financial accounts from a diocese at the centre of an investigation into clerical sexual abuse show contributions and other incomes have increased significantly over the past year.

AN inquiry team investigating how a Wexford diocese handled suspicions, rumours and confirmed cases of clerical sexual abuse will begin hearing victims’ testimony on Monday.

AN inquiry into clerical sexual abuse in a Wexford diocese is to begin

IT was to be a palace fit for a former bishop, but now Bracken Lodge, just outside Wexford town, is on the market and the Diocese of Ferns stands to make a €30,000 profit on its sale.

A DIOCESE which is the focus of a State inquiry into clerical sexual abuse has refused to say if a priest cleared by a garda and diocesan investigation will be reinstated.

DOZENS of victims of sexual abuse by clerics in a Wexford diocese are to give details of their ordeal to a state investigation within weeks.

AN inquiry into clerical sexual abuse in the Diocese of Ferns is finally up and running – over 15 months after it was promised.

Priests and church volunteers in the Diocese of Ferns are being told to avoid contact with children while not in public view.

Television documentaries exposing sexual abuse by clergy led to a high number of victims coming forward to report rape in Ireland, figures showed today.

CLERICAL sexual abuse victim Colm O’Gorman was finally vindicated yesterday.

A YEAR after Bishop Brendan Comiskey fell on his sword in a swirl of controversy the Government has announced the terms of reference of an inquiry into how exactly allegations of child sexual abuse were handled

The Government today authorised a formal inquiry into the handling by the Church of child sex abuse allegations in the diocese of Ferns.