The Cloyne report covers Catholic church cover-ups of child abuse in this Cork diocese from 1996 to 2009.
The inquiry was prompted by reports that child protection practices were: “inadequate and in some respects dangerous”
In one case the Bishop, John Magee, took 8 years to inform Gardai that a child had been raped by a priest.
The bishop “apparently focused on the needs of the accused priest”.
It is beyond belief that the state’s guidelines ‘Children First’ still have no statutory basis or funding.
Government policy could be renamed ‘Cover-ups First – Children Last’.