IRELAND
Irish Independent
THE role of senior churchmen in dealing with allegations of child sex abuse in the Dublin diocese will come under scrutiny in a new investigation.
A statutory inquiry into child sex abuse in the country's largest diocese has been given a €5.7m budget for a major 18-month probe into victims' complaints and official cover-ups.
The Commission of Investigation, headed by Circuit Court Judge Yvonne Murphy, will examine cases in Dublin going back to 1975. But the Government has set its face against a "grand inquisition" which would cover the whole country.
A total of 67 priests of the Dublin archdiocese have allegations of abuse against them - three times the number of clerics the Ferns inquiry had to investigate.