Sex abuse chapter to be published

A CHAPTER of the Murphy Report detailing child sex abuse carried out by former priest Tony Walsh will be published next week after a High Court ruling yesterday.

The report outlines clerical child sex abuse in Dublin’s Catholic archdiocese, but chapters 19 and 20 were withheld as they detailed activities relating to two men who were both the subject of legal proceedings.

In October last year Mr Justice Paul Gilligan ruled that chapter 19, relating to former priest Tony Walsh, and which contains 21 other references to him, should not be published until the case against him was finalised.