91Èȱ¬

The much-awaited report into the abuse of children by Catholic clergy in the archdiocese of Dublin over a period of 35 years is expected to be published this week. Some newspapers have already been publishing leaked of key findings. Early indications suggest that this will be an extremely shocking report.

:

"Some boys who were abused by one priest were later passed on to their friends and abused again. In another case, the notorious sex abuser Fr Sean Fortune, who committed suicide, gave the key of a holiday cottage to another priest who abused a girl there.

The Commission, which has trawled through thousands of files over more than nine years, will find that the powerful bishops of Dublin were more concerned with the power and pomp of their Church than they were with the children in their care.

Some of those who complained were met with denial, arrogance and even cover-up, the shocking report will reveal. The report will say that not one of the four archbishops who presided over the Dublin diocese from the 1960s revealed their knowledge of widespread sexual abuse by the clergy to the gardai until late 1995."