Moriarty one of 17 senior bishops in report era

THE Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin James Moriarty is one of 17 senior bishops who served in the Archdiocese of Dublin during the period investigated by the Murphy Commission.

However, the commission’s report makes few references to Dr Moriarty, 73, who served as Auxiliary Bishop of Dublin between 1991 and 2002.

His only direct role in handling allegations of clerical abuse related to the case of Fr Edmondus – the pseudonym of a notorious paedophile priest who abused numerous victims, including Marie Collins who was sexually assaulted by him while a patient at Our Lady’s Hospital for Sick Children in Crumlin in 1960 when she was just 13-years-old.