Nuala O’Loan calls on Church and state leaders to be ‘humble’

THE current crisis in the Catholic Church and the state is also a time of real opportunity, former Ombudsman of the PSNI, Nuala O’Loan, said yesterday.

Addressing a conference on the Emerging Challenges for Leadership in Ireland, at Mary Immaculate College in Limerick, she said: “It will demand much of those in leadership. They must, I think, be prepared to be humble, to be strong and robust and to work as hard as they can to ensure that in every action they take they act with probity and fairness.”

What went wrong in both the state and the Church, she said, is what went wrong in many institutions and organisations which exercise power.