Mix of respect and anger from across the world following Kenny’s speech

THEY wrote from across Ireland but also from America, Australia, China, mainland Europe and Britain. Among them were priests and nuns, abuse victims and counsellors, parents and grandparents, those of religious faith and none.

The one thing they all had in common was their reason for writing — to react to Taoiseach Enda Kenny’s speech on the Cloyne report, which he delivered in the Dáil on July 20 last.

The report was the work of a state inquiry which examined how the Catholic diocese of Cloyne had handled clerical sex abuse allegations.