THE chairwoman of the Catholic Church’s internal inquiry into paedophile priests was making no comment yesterday on reports a member of her team once failed to turn over a crucial complaints file in another child sex abuse investigation.

IT’S a pity many of us in Ireland only discuss religion when we are very drunk or very angry. Right now, anger has the floor.

VICTIMS of clerical child sex abuse are set for another let-down with the disclosure that the Government is planning only a non-statutory inquiry on foot of the Bermingham report on the Fr Sean Fortune scandal.

NO more stonewalling. This is no longer an option for the Catholic Chutrch in Ireland despite yet another apology from Cardinal Desmond Connell last night.

There were tonight growing demands for a Garda inquiry into allegations of child sex abuse in the Dublin Archdiocese.

Judge Gillian Hussey has appointed seven people to serve on the independent commission into the handling of clerical sex abuse allegations by the Catholic Church.

A retired woman judge was today confirmed as the head of an independent inquiry established by the Catholic Church to look into child sex abuse by the clergy and action taken in response by the authorities.

Three bodies representing religious orders in Ireland have established an independent commission to uncover the truth about clerical child sex abuse within the Catholic Church in Ireland.