Elderly stroke patient’s claims of abuse not adequately checked

THE Diocese of Cloyne failed to adequately investigate claims by an elderly stroke patient that he was abused as a child in a priest’s home after confession.

The Murphy Commission has found that Monsignor Denis O’Callaghan and Bishop John Magee did not go to “some trouble” to uncover details about the case.

In Chapter 19 of the report, the commission said a man given the pseudonym “Paul”, who has since died, wrote to Cardinal Desmond O’Connell in January 2003 detailing attacks as a child.