Gardaí probe safeguarding issues following complaint about fundamentalist Catholic group

The group has held masses in Derry, where local bishop Donal McKeown, in a bulletin sent to all churches this weekend, warned congregations: "The priests of SSPX Resistance Ireland are not in full communion with the Catholic Church and do not accept the full teaching authority of the Church. Picture: Andy Gibson

A Garda complaint has been made about a fundamentalist Catholic group based in Cork, which has allowed a defrocked priest to say mass despite alleged safeguard breaches.

The Society of St Pius Resistance, a splinter group of the controversial SSPX which was founded in 1970 by a former bishop who clashed with the Vatican over reforms, has operated from a farmhouse in Drinagh, Co Cork.