The Mission to Prey programme was Aoife Kavanagh’s first for PrimeTime Investigates. For her and others on the strand, it would be the last.

GARDAÍ are preparing to launch an investigation into the alleged abuse and rape of children in Africa by Irish missionary priests.

THE Catholic Church is facing yet another abuse scandal after a series of Irish priests were accused of raping and abusing young children and teenagers while working as missionaries in Africa over the past three decades.