Support group flooded by calls

THE Government and the gardaí are bracing for a flood of further revelations about clerical child sex abuse as attention turns to dioceses outside Dublin and Ferns, Co Wexford.

The One In Four victims support group, set up to assist those abused by Fr Sean Fortune and other priests of the Ferns diocese, is now getting calls for help from all over the country.

Minister for Justice, Michael McDowell said yesterday he would be taking into consideration the likelihood that similar complaints would surface elsewhere in deciding what form a State inquiry into the Dublin archdiocese would take.