Walsh defends action over child abuse priest

The Bishop of Killaloe Dr Willie Walsh has admitted that he referred a Clare priest later convicted of child sex abuse to a psychiatrist in 1995, but was told he posed no danger to children.

Dr Willie Walsh has confirmed that Fr Con Desmond, who was given a suspended sentence last month for abusing a Waterford schoolboy in the 1980s, came to him in 1995 expressing worries about sexual abuse cases in general.