A PRIEST charged with interviewing a woman who had been abused for four years by Fr Ronat wrote in notes afterwards that he thought she may be some kind of latterday “Ophelia of Hamlet”.

FR RONAT had an “obsessive and unhealthy” relationship with a teenage boy whom he used to take to sporting events but was also taking into his bed.

A cleric asked to examine abuse allegations against a fellow priest suggested a teenage victim was to blame, a previously unpublished section of the Cloyne Report has revealed.

The final part of the Cloyne Report has been published, again detailing the failure of the Catholic Church to report alleged child abuse.

Serious failures in the handling of child sex abuse allegations against a priest in the Diocese of Cloyne are expected to be published tomorrow.