Gardaí won’t show ‘undue deference’

GARDA Commissioner Fachtna Murphy has rejected suggestions that the force was not up to pursuing clerical child sex abuses cases.

He dismissed claims that police experts from outside Ireland were needed. The Garda boss said the “undue deference” shown by gardaí in some cases exposed in the Murphy report would not happen “under his watch”.

He said an investigation set up last Friday into the handling by Church and state officials of cases in the Murphy report, was tasked to carry out any and every inquiry it deemed necessary.