Abuse counsellors braced for influx of crisis calls

Counsellors were today bracing themselves for an onslaught of crisis calls after the latest horrific revelations of a Catholic Church cover-up of clerical sex abuse.

Some of the country’s leading victim support services, which saw as much as a 300% surge in calls after the Ryan Report in May, said they were preparing for a similar reaction to the Dublin Archdiocese inquiry.