KEY personnel looking after the children in one of the country’s most disturbing abuse cases felt “vilified” and “crucified” and left hung out to dry by health service management when details of the case emerged.

THE ultra-conservative Catholic campaigner named in court as having backed the mother at the centre of the Roscommon incest scandal has denied she tried to intervene in the case.

A court has heard that an "extremely anticlerical" social worker investigating alleged sexual abuse at a Galway school was eventually taken off the case by the former Western Health Board.