Bishop Magee is a prince in his own palace

THANK God for Ian Elliott and the Church’s National Board for Safeguarding Children (NBSC), because without that report we wouldn’t have a clue about the extent of the child abuse cover-up in Cloyne.

The HSE report which was published yesterday singularly fails to acknowledge the appalling acts visited upon children in that diocese; acts that were systematically disregarded by a self-serving hierarchy more concerned with preserving the Catholic Church rather than looking after its children.

It was jaw-dropping in its lack of investigative vigour with the authors brushing over the details of these scandals and concentrating instead on recommendations for the future.