Murray expected to resign within days

THE Bishop of Limerick Donal Murray’s expected resignation from his post could be announced today, as attention turns to who will succeed him in the short term.

Bishop Murray has come under sustained criticism since the publication of the Murphy Report into clerical child sex abuse in the Dublin Archdiocese.

The devastating findings in the report included sharp criticism of Bishop Murray, an auxiliary bishop in Dublin between 1982 and 1996, for his failure to properly address the abuse of children by priests.