Vatican rejects ex-priest’s appeal of defrocking over child sex abuse
Dan Duane, from Mallow Co Cork, was defrocked following a canon law trial for abuse of teenagers and minors.
In March 2013 a secret canonical court set up by the Cloyne diocese’s former administrator, Archbishop of Cashel and Emly, Dermot Clifford, ruled he should be forced to stand down as a priest having heard from a number of his victims.



