Victims of clerical abuse tell of ordeal

DOZENS of victims of sexual abuse by clerics in a Wexford diocese are to give details of their ordeal to a state investigation within weeks.

But former Bishop of Ferns, Dr Brendan Comiskey, who resigned after a BBC documentary into the Church’s handling of the abuse, is not likely to be called back from the US to give his testimony until all victims have told of their ordeal. That is unlikely to happen until the end of October, at the earliest.

The Ferns inquiry wants to hear from anyone who can help establish the precise extent of the abuse.