Child abuse report - Rebuttal cannot be accepted

YESTERDAY afternoon’s statement from the 18 Catholic congregations party to the scandalous Woods deal, which capped the religious organisations implicated in child abuse liability at €128 million, truly beggars belief.

In it they said that they would not re-open the deal that sees them pay less than 10% of the compensation due following the appalling abuses revealed in last week’s Ryan report.

They are liable for less than 10% of the €1.3 billion bill foisted on this near-bankrupt country because clerics and lay people in their employ behaved like savages, albeit with the tacit approval of this society, and they won’t reconsider?