O’Callaghan told abuse victims he did all he could

THE child protection tsar in Cloyne wrote to clerical abuse victims to tell them he had done everything he could to help them obtain justice — even though the Cloyne report revealed the opposite to be true.

A letter from Monsignor Denis O’Callaghan, seen by the Irish Examiner, shows how he wrote to a victim in 2009 to tell her that “in all my dealings with you I acted properly and professionally and within my role as delegate for clerical sex abuse”.

However, the Murphy report, published this summer, found that Mgr O’Callaghan systematically “stymied” the implementation of Church protocols on child protection.