Church to publish number of reports on child abuse

A number of reports on child abuse in the Catholic Church will be published this morning.

The Church's own watchdog, the National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church, will publish an audit of how the Christian Brothers dealt with allegations of child sex abuse in Irish schools.

It will also release a number of other, separate reports into child protection investigations and compliance levels in several dioceses including Armagh, Kerry, Cashel and Emly and Down and Connor.