IRELAND
One in Four
RTE’s award-winning Prime Time Special Cardinal Secrets detailed the sexual abuse of eight children by priests in the Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin and laid bare the Diocese's mishandling of allegations of abuse.
The response to Cardinal Secrets was much public and media outrage and the Minister for Justice Equality and Law Reform Michael McDowell TD promised a full statutory inquiry into how allegations of child sexual abuse by priests had been handled by church and other authorities.
Along with Colm O'Gorman, Director of One In Four, I met the Minister at that time and he was very keen to set up a new form of public inquiry that would be available to investigate urgent matters of public concern as and when they arose.
The Minister made it clear that this new mechanism of inquiry would be more suitable than a tribunal of inquiry.
Posted by kshaw at June 13, 2005 07:25 PM