A PRIEST who left the Diocese of Cloyne over its handling of child sex abuse allegations has criticised the decision to allow a close friend of Bishop John Magee to take over as administrator of the diocese.

LAST Tuesday night I listened to Cardinal Brady’s Killarney lecture on ‘The Church in Contemporary Ireland’, including his passing reference to the scandals that have bedevilled it.

A PRIEST who once served in the Diocese of Cloyne has written to the Pope’s representative in this country, the papal nuncio, seeking the resignation of the Bishop of Cloyne, John Magee and the diocese’s former head of children protection.