BISHOP John Magee bears “primary responsibility” for the “inadequate and inappropriate response” to complaints of clerical child sex abuse in the Diocese of Cloyne.

Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore has come under pressure from Cabinet colleagues to summon the Pope’s Irish ambassador over Rome‘s role in the Cloyne scandal.

Bishop Magee’s second-in-command in Cloyne has admitted he sometimes had more concern for abusive priests than their victims.

Former Bishop John Magee has apologised for failing the victims of abusive priests under his authority.

The former Bishop of Cloyne, John Magee, has issued a statement in which he sincerely apologises to all those who were abused by priests in the diocese.

A retired Catholic bishop has been singled out for failing to follow Church rules on reporting clerical sex abuse in an Irish diocese as recently as three years ago.

THE report into clerical sex abuse in the Catholic archdiocese of Cloyne is expected to heavily criticise Bishop John Magee, in line with a previous inquiry by the Church’s own watchdog.

A CAR belonging to the diocese of Cloyne’s former child protection delegate was vandalised overnight last weekend.

THE Bishop of Cloyne has described his decision not to give the name of an alleged child abuser to gardaí as “normal practice”, according to a report on alleged child abuse in his diocese.

DESPITE three separate allegations of sexual abuse, the Diocese of Cloyne did not report the priest at the heart of the allegations to gardaí and even considered returning him to full ministry.