Finance Minister Michael Noonan’s home village was directly affected by the closure of its three nearest AIB bank branches, which shut yesterday along with 41 others across the country.

Bailed-out Allied Irish Banks (AIB) is to permanently shut down 44 of its branches across the country today.

AIB is to provide a mobile banking service in a West Cork peninsula to compensate for next October’s planned closure of two of its branches.

Allied Irish Banks (AIB) has today announced that it is to close 67 branches across the country.

VICTIMS of Fr Ronat, the priest at the centre of the latest Cloyne report, have said that they have “little interest” in meeting Bishop John Magee and former child protection delegate, Monsignor Denis O’Callaghan — unless the media is present.

IT would be nice to think that the publication of the final details of the Cloyne Report represented some sort of closure for those abused by the priests of the diocese.

A TEENAGE girl who alleges that she was abused by Fr Ronat said he claimed the Holy Spirit was descending upon her as he touched her body.

DESPITE the complaints mounting against Fr Ronat, the diocese considered promoting him in 1995, and again in 2005 — which the Commission described as “shocking”.

FR RONAT had an “obsessive and unhealthy” relationship with a teenage boy whom he used to take to sporting events but was also taking into his bed.

A cleric asked to examine abuse allegations against a fellow priest suggested a teenage victim was to blame, a previously unpublished section of the Cloyne Report has revealed.

Serious failures in the handling of child sex abuse allegations against a priest in the Diocese of Cloyne are expected to be highlighted in an official report today.

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.

THE former child protection delegate in the Diocese of Cloyne has attempted to explain his failure to report complaints of child sex abuse by saying the accused priests were often aged or sick.

A COUNSELLING centre in Cork has confirmed that a priest, against whom seven allegations of sexual abuse have been lodged, worked as a volunteer with them in the early 1990s.

THE Health Service Executive has stepped in to help pay for a cancer patient’s life-saving surgery in the US.

Priests from all over Cork were due to meet today to air their views on the findings of the Cloyne Report.

AN archdiocese that failed to inform Cloyne Diocese that a priest returning to Ireland on “health” grounds was the subject of two prior sex abuse claims has secretly paid out AUS$80,000 (€61,399) to his alleged victims.

BISHOP John Magee’s bid to cover the cost of child abuse claims was bolstered by two controversial takeover deals for local radio services in the county.

THE wife of a Cloyne child abuse survivor whose attacker was involved in two previous abuse claim cover-ups has said her husband is “disgusted” information was withheld which could have saved him.

CLOYNE Diocese used the profits from a community radio windfall to help pay its abuse bills.

THE Archbishop of Dublin has accused bishops of “hiding” unpublished child abuse reports rather than making them public.

IT could be a number of months before two Garda reviews of the Cloyne report will be in a position to determine whether or not criminal investigations should be launched.

VICTIMS of clerical sex abuse in Cloyne have said Bishop John Magee and Monsignor Denis O’Callaghan should be stripped of their titles by the Vatican.

A NEW allegation of abuse in the diocese of Cloyne has been made since the report into past abuses and cover ups was published this week.

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.

In 2008, Bishop John Magee and his cohort asserted their commitment to child protection. After the release of the Cloyne report, his words seem insincere, writes Claire O’Sullivan

THE Cloyne Diocese hierarchy spent 10 times more on legal fees and advice than it did on counselling services for abuse victims who came forward.

THE Government is on collision course with the Vatican after Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore demanded an explanation from Rome regarding what he called the “in appropriate intervention in the laws of our country”.

THE cleric condemned for his failure to implement child protection guidelines in the beleaguered Diocese of Cloyne queried how he had failed the victims when asked if he accepted he had let them down.

The Pope’s ambassador to Ireland has been ordered to get answers from the Vatican on damning revelations that it allowed priests to ignore the law.

Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore is to seek a meeting with the Pope’s ambassador to Ireland over Rome’s role in the Cloyne scandal.

THE Church showed favour to accused priests and systematically failed abuse victims, a junior minister who fought to reveal the truth in Cloyne has said.

THE Cloyne Commission has said it is “very concerned” at the role of gardaí in three cases, including one where no investigation was carried out and another where a statement from a victim was left forgotten in a drawer.

A WOMAN who was sexually assaulted in an industrial school by the priest who referred her to the institution was denied money towards counselling because Monsignor Denis O’Callaghan was afraid of giving “compensation by subterfuge”.

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A BOARDING school pupil said he was told to “keep his mouth shut” by an alleged abuser who was ordered to step down after regularly drinking with pupils late at night in his room.

THE Diocese of Cloyne failed to adequately investigate claims by an elderly stroke patient that he was abused as a child in a priest’s home after confession.

IN 2007 a sacristan told a priest of concerns about Fr Zephan, who is a serving priest in the diocese, arising from an incident around 1990 when she saw him leave the altar servers’ room followed by a distressed child.

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 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.

A YOUNG man took his own life and his sister had to have psychiatric treatment when they were both abused by a priest who died in the early 1990s.

MONSIGNOR Denis O’Callaghan is also severely criticised in his handling of one of the two complaints made against Fr Tarin.

A PRIEST was allowed have music lessons taught at his house more than seven years after he was removed from his ministry due to an allegation of child sex abuse.