Do not scapegoat bishop, say abuse probe witnesses

KEY witnesses in an inquiry into clerical sexual abuse in Wexford says the bishop who managed the diocese at the time should not be made a scapegoat in the ongoing State probe.

Former Vatican ambassador Father Tom Doyle will give testimony to the Ferns Inquiry in Dublin on Wednesday.

He will tell inquiry secretary Marian Shanley and her team that former Bishop of Ferns, Brendan Comiskey, must not be made carry the blame for what went on at the hands of the late Fr Seán Fortune and others.