This is rather a late post it should have been post over a week ago but it had to be published first… There is no greater evil than that which has been inflicted upon the victims of child sexual abuse. It is a crime for which suffering knows no end. Counseling helps, justice can satisfy, [...]
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It can only be described as an outrageous statement and a terrible inditement of the evil that dwells in the mind of priest Patrick Hughes (82). I write of course of his attempt to distance his raping of young Altar Boys from the same activity with those sitting in the isles. In a statement to [...]
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The Health Service Executive has been given 48 hours to furnish Children’s Minister, Barry Andrews TD with a report into its handling of the Roscommon Incest/Child Abuse case. According to today’s Irish Times Minister Andrews has expressed “absolute shock and abhorrence” at the revelations during the trial and as result the HSE has appointed an external regional Manager [...]
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It’s been a long time since this issue has hit the headlines or been on the lips of many political commentators. The current economic crisis and political disquiet has taken obvious priority, but as expected the Roscommon Incest Case has brought it firmly back on the media spotlight. It was truly a horrific case of [...]
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13 Jan, 2009
Posted by: Steve In: Religion
What planet the senior members of the Roman Catholic Church are on still defies me. Bishop Magee should go. There should be no question about this, but Cardinal Brady and Dairmuid Martin (the most senior Roman Catholic figure in Ireland) both say he should stay. Child safety should be a number one priority for those [...]
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