A Happy and Peaceful New Year to You All
AND I SAID TO THE MAN AT THE GATE OF THE YEAR GIVE ME A LIGHT THAT I MAY TREAD SAFELY INTO THE UNKNOWN, AND HE REPLIED, GO OUT INTO THE DARKNESS AND PUT YOUR HAND INTO THE HAND OF...
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December 2010 Archives
Well worth viewing
The Limits of Liberty This unique 3-part series is a history of 20th Century Ireland presented and co-written by historian Diarmaid Ferriter. The Limits of Liberty is the story of Irish Independence. How governments of the early decades of independence...
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Priests encouraged to co-operate with papal delegation's child abuse inquiry
PATSY McGARRY Thu, Dec 30, 2010 IRELAND'S Catholic priests have been encouraged by the Association of Catholic Priests to meet a delegation sent to Ireland by Pope Benedict as promised in his Pastoral Letter to the Catholics of Ireland last...
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Inclusion of abusers on church body criticised
PATSY McGARRY, Religious Affairs Correspondent Thu, Dec 30, 2010 PSYCHOLOGIST DR Maureen Gaffney has described as "perversity on a breathtaking scale" the fact that the Catholic Church's Dublin Regional Marriage Tribunal included two known clerical child sex abusers when...
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No deadline set for handover of €235m of religious property
John Downes, News Investigations Correspondent --> Justice Sean Ryan: report The Department of Education has set no specific deadline for the handover of €235m worth of additional properties pledged by the religious congregations in 2009, the Sunday Tribune has...
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Religious still owe State €500m for survivors
Independent.ie Thousands wait despite abuse deals By Katherine Donnelly Monday December 27 2010 RELIGIOUS orders still owe the State more than €500m arising from the deal to compensate the thousands of children who were abused while living in their...
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A Happy and Peaceful Christmas to you all
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Pope is right on views of paedophilia in 1970s
Independent.ie David Quinn: EVERY year at this time the Pope addresses the Vatican diplomatic corps and wherever possible the media like to misinterpret what he says. Two years ago he is supposed to have compared the destruction of the rainforests...
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Irish victims of abuse in Britain may lose out on compensation
By Nick Bramhill THOUSANDS of Irish ex-pats who suffered abuse as children in State-run institutions could lose out on compensation, after it emerged that the Redress Scheme is about to be wound down. Although applications for compensation officially...
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Walsh abuse and cover-up
Irish Times - Letters page Madam, - As a person brought up in the Roman Catholic faith and who served as an altar boy, I have very grave reservations at why it took the archdiocese of Dublin 17 years to...
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Pope's message on abuse is nonsensical and sad
Independent.ie By Bruce Arnold Tuesday December 21 2010 It is difficult to pinpoint quite where Pope Benedict is focusing his mind when he issues a statement such as that contained in his traditional, end-of-the-year speech to Vatican cardinals and...
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Pope's message - A church in denial is doomed
Irish Examiner Tuesday, December 21, 2010 COMING, as it does, just weeks after former priest and voracious paedophile and serial liar Tony Walsh was sentenced to 123 years in jail for the most appalling abuses, and as the publication...
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Murphy extracts show 'agonies' of Connell over abuse cases
Tue, Dec 21, 2010 RITE AND REASON: The latest material from the Murphy report casts Cardinal Desmond Connell in a more positive light, writes PATSY McGARRY ONE OF the more torrid press conferences hosted by the Irish Catholic bishops...
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Pope recalls year 'stained' by child sex abuse crisis
PADDY AGNEW Tue, Dec 21, 2010 POPE BENEDICT XVI conceded yesterday that 2010 had been a year sullied by the child sex abuse crisis which has plagued the Catholic Church for the last 12 months. Making his traditional...
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Church 'must reform' after scandals
Pope Benedict XVI waves to the crowd in Saint Peter's square. Photograph: Tony Gentile/Reuters Pope Benedict called today for a re-examination of the Church's message and practices to enable it to learn from the scandal of the sexual...
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Church leaders must pay for failing to act on abuse
Independent.ie By John Cooney Monday December 20 2010 THE public mood in Ireland is for the prosecution and incarceration of church leaders who facilitated child clerical abusers by following canon law confidentiality, rather than the due process of civil...
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Cleric admits telling gardai of abuse 'wasn't on agenda'
Independent.ie By Louise Hogan Monday December 20 2010 ABUSE victims last night reacted with fury as a senior cleric in the Catholic Church revealed that informing gardai was not part of their "agenda" as they dealt with allegations of...
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Questions remain as eyes turn to two serving bishops and canon lawyers
PATSY McGARRY, Religious Affairs Correspondent Mon, Dec 20, 2010 ANALYSIS: Chapter 19 reveals that by March 1985, seven priests were aware of concerns about Walsh TWO SERVING bishops have familiar questions to answer following publication last Friday of parts of...
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Church's sins of omission
Sat, Dec 18, 2010 IN 1988, 10 years after the first complaint about Fr Tony Walsh's sexually predatory habits, the danger he represented was described unambiguously to the Dublin church by a psychologist from the Stroud treatment centre. Chancellor...
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Scale of Walsh cover-up by church breathtaking
Tony Walsh abused well over 100 children, according to the chapter of the Murphy commission report published yesterday. Chapter 19 is full of references to discussions about Walsh at the monthly meetings of the Dublin bishops MARY...
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Church 'failed hundreds of children' over Walsh inaction
Tony Walsh was sent to prison again last week for child sex abuse, this time for 16 years. Photo: Collins Independent.ie By John Cooney Religion Correspondent Saturday December 18 2010 THE Catholic Church in Dublin failed hundreds...
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Complaint 'hushed up', according to local priest
PAMELA DUNCAN Sat, Dec 18, 2010 FR MICHAEL CLEARY and CANON VAL ROGERS: ONE OF the first complaints against Tony Walsh was "hushed up" according to the parish priest of Ballyfermot at that time. The mother of a 14-year-old boy...
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Archdiocese took 17 years to report abuse priest to gardaí
PATSY McGARRY, Religious Affairs Correspondent Sat, Dec 18, 2010 DUBLIN'S CATHOLIC archdiocese did not report child abuse allegations against former priest Tony Walsh to the Garda until 17 years after it first received a complaint. During that period, Walsh...
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Catholic institutions owe State over €300m
Catholic institutions still owe the State hundreds of millions of euro in contributions that were promised after the church abuse scandals. Catholic institutions still owe the State hundreds of millions of euro in contributions...
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CONNECT SERVICES
December 2010 Dear Colleague, I am pleased to inform you that Connect will operate a continuous service throughout the Christmas and New Year period. Full details are listed below: Wednesday 22nd December ...
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We have a right to know about abuse funds
Friday, December 17, 2010 YOUR newspaper is to be congratulated for being the only major media outlet in the nation to cover the funding of groups which have received funding for institutional abuse. A year ago I called for...
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Victim of abuse calls for Brady's resignation
Cardinal Sean Brady Independent By John Cooney Friday December 17 2010 A personal letter demanding the resignation of Cardinal Sean Brady has been sent to the head of the Irish Church by a Cavan victim of notorious paedophile...
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'I just want answers. I need to know why I was picked for secret trials of a new vaccine'
Independent By Patricia McDonagh Monday December 13 2010 PHILIP Delaney was a vulnerable six-month-old baby when he was first injected with the unauthorised 'five-in-one' vaccine. Over the next two months, he was given the combined jab on three separate...
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Documents prove children given jabs without consent
Independent By Patricia McDonagh Monday December 13 2010 THE first proof that unauthorised vaccine trials were carried out on children in the care of the State has emerged in new medical documents obtained during an Irish Independent investigation. They...
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Response to Magdalene survivors
Madam, - One month has passed since the Irish Human Rights Commission published its assessment and recommendation to the Government regarding human rights violations in the Magdalene laundries. One month has passed since the Government referred the assessment to...
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Days of genuflection
The Irish Times - Monday, December 13, 2010 THE INSTITUTIONAL face of the Catholic Church, as represented by the Vatican, has been left in a dark place of its own creation because of its hopelessly inadequate response to...
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Catholic Church self-centred and arrogant over abuse scandal
Martin: Catholic Church self-centred and arrogant over abuse scandal12/12/2010 - 15:57:17One of Ireland's highest ranking Catholics today denounced the Church for having grown self-centred and arrogant in the wake of the clerical child abuse scandals.Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin,...
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Thursday, 4 November 2010
Mary Coughlan (Tánaiste; Minister, Department of Education and Science; Donegal South West, Fianna Fail) The Redress Scheme was established in 2002 as an exceptional measure to address abuse in specified residential institutions and to quote the then Minister from the...
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Dutch public believes Roman Catholic Church authorities covered up sexual abuse,
Pope Benedict - 81% believe he knew about abuse A large majority of the Dutch public believes Roman Catholic Church authorities covered up sexual abuse, a poll found today, revealing the extent of the damage to the Church's...
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Written answers - You should all know about this
Written answers Tuesday, 30 November 2010 What are written answers? Department of Education and Science Residential Institutions Redress Scheme All Written Answers on 30 Nov 2010 « Previous answer Next answer » 5:00 am Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn...
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Abuse probe offended Vatican - Wikileaks
Updated: 09:25, Saturday, 11 December 2010 Disclosures by Wikileaks have shed new light on the tensions between the Government and the Vatican during the Murphy investigation into clerical child abuse. 1 of 1 Clerical Child Abuse - Wikileaks release...
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Murphy requests 'offended' Vatican
PATSY McGARRY Religious Affairs Correspondent Sat, Dec 11, 2010 Requests for information from the Murphy Commission "offended many in the Vatican" who felt that the Irish government had "failed to respect and protect Vatican sovereignty during the (Commission) investigations",...
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Missing chapter of child abuse must be published
The Irish Times -- Tuesday, December 7, 2010 ANALYSIS: The latest priest child rapist from the Dublin archdiocese was named yesterday, thanks to the persistence of his victims, writes MARY RAFTERY THE BAD, the ugly and, somewhat surprisingly, the good -...
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€34m for groups supporting institutional abuse survivors
By Conall Ó Fátharta Monday, December 06, 2010 AN estimated €34 million has been provided to groups supporting victims of institutional abuse between 2001 and 2009. The latest report by the Comptroller and Auditor General, on the Department of...
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Lawyers earn €157m from institutional abuse cases
Lawyers earn €157m from institutional abuse cases Ken Foxe, Public Affairs Correspondent Some €157m has been paid in legal fees to barristers and solicitors who worked on behalf of victims of institutional abuse. The costs make up more than 15%...
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Under-pressure primate in 'snub' from own clerics
Half-empty forum may signal anger at Sean Brady's leadership after sex-abuse cover-up John Downes, News Investigations Correspondent --> Sean Brady: linked to controversial canonical inquiry into abuse Scores of priests from the Armagh archdiocese refused to attend an annual...
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