IRELAND
Connaught Telegraph
The following is a summary of statistical information regarding child sexual abuse allegations in the Archdiocese of Tuam:
For the purposes of this exercise the term “allegation” is used in a broad manner so as to include information, from whomsoever received, which suggested that a child may have been sexually abused or at risk of such abuse.
It does not necessarily mean that a reasonable suspicion ultimately emerged that child sexual abuse had occurred. Every allegation which has been made against a living priest is known also to the Gardai.
No priest is currently in ministry who is the subject of an investigation involving child sexual abuse or about whom there has been reasonable suspicion that child sexual abuse may have occurred.