CORI’S representative on the National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church (NBSCCC) resigned as a director of the board just days before the watchdog began investigating his own order’s implementation of child protection guidelines.

UP TO 24 past pupils at a Co Cork boarding school have contacted gardaí with allegations of abuse.

FIVE new allegations of child sexual abuse at a Cork school were received by the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart in the past month, according to the order.

THE CHURCH’S National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church (NBSCCC) has begun two investigations into the handling of child protection complaints by the Sacred Heart Missionaries.

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.