Exposé on shielding paedophiles in Church a shocking indictment

EVERY once in a while a television programme gets the whole nation talking.

Back in the 1960s one tipsy bishop got himself into a lather because somebody's wife admitted on the Late Late Show that she did not wear a nightie on her wedding night. On another occasion a student from Trinity College provoked outrage by suggesting that the Bishop of Galway did not know the meaning of Christianity. Those programmes seem positively comical in comparison with Thursday night's devastating exposé on Prime Time.

It exposed what amounted to rampant clerical paedophilia within the Dublin archdiocese. Eight paedophile priests were actually named, and the pathetic handling of their cases by three archbishops exposed.