The article "Sleeping with boys was 'common practice': royal commission on sex abuse in Wollongong, day 3" (June 26, 2014) was accompanied online by a photograph of Fr John Neill OP OAM.  The article discussed allegations of inappropriate conduct against defrocked Wollongong priest John Nestor heard at the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Assault.

Fr Neill is a highly respected Dominican priest, now retired. He has no involvement with the Royal Commission and has never been the subject of any allegations of child sexual abuse.

The Herald withdraws any suggestion to the contrary and apologises to Fr Neill and his fellow Dominicans for the hurt and embarrassment caused by the wrongful use of his photograph with the article.