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Priests abused 'thousands of children over 30-year period'

Friday April 10 2009

THOUSANDS of children were raped and abused by Catholic priests, many of them serial offenders in the Dublin diocese over a 30-year period, a shocking report on clerical sex abuse will reveal next month.

Priests abused up to 400 children in Dublin diocese

Saturday November 08 2008

Shocking new figures show that 400 children have been identified as possible victims of sex abuse by priests in the Dublin Archdiocese -- proportionately even higher then the catalogue of horrors found by a Government investigation into the Diocese of Ferns.

Sex abuse survivor gets book deal

Wednesday October 01 2008

CHURCH sex abuse survivor Colm O'Gorman has signed an international deal with a major publisher for his memoirs.

Archbishop has young ministry hope for pilgrims

Monday July 07 2008

Archbishop Diarmuid Martin has invited over 200 young people who are setting out to join Pope Benedict at World Youth Day in Sydney to take this as a privileged opportunity to renew their commitment to the life of the Church.

How truth got lost between canon and civil law

Friday February 01 2008

SIX years ago, anger at the Catholic Church's handling of clerical sex abuse reached a zenith when a damning documentary, 'Cardinal Secrets', was screened.

Comiskey is 'more than happy' to testify on clerical abuse

Wednesday June 13 2007

RETIRED Bishop Brendan Comiskey, the first member of the Church hierarchy to give evidence in an abuse case, has told the High Court he is "more than happy" to appear as a witness.

Diocesan sex trial hears of 'improper behaviour'

Wednesday May 16 2007

THE first civil diocesan sex abuse cases to go to full trials featured dramatic evidence yesterday in the High Court.

Altar boy 'abused by priest for five years'

Thursday May 03 2007

A MAN who claims he was sexually abused by a priest twice a week for five years has begun an action for damages against the priest and the Bishop of Ferns.

Ten years of joys, tears, love and life. And Veronica has missed all that

Sunday June 25 2006

SHE joked about Manchester United with the doorman, and then took the lift to the third floor of the old building in Abbey Street, walked along the brown linoleum-covered corridor and down the steps and into the newsroom of the Sunday Independent. Just inside the door was the news desk, facing down the long room lit by harsh strip lighting, the desks groaning under the weigh

Dr Martin set for Rome in reshuffle at Vatican

Friday February 24 2006

DUBLIN Archbishop Diarmuid Martin will return to Rome to take up a senior position in the Curia within six months. Informed sources in the Vatican say he will be replaced as Archbishop of Dublin by his deputy Bishop Eamonn Walsh.

Casey at centre of row over priest

Saturday February 11 2006

John
Cooney
ON his first day in his new Galway home, retired bishop Eamonn Casey found himself at the centre of a major row between the Hierarchy and a senior priest who claims he was unfairly dismissed from his post at Maynooth College.