IRELAND
The Irish Times
GORDON DEEGAN
THERE WAS a significant reduction in payments by Killaloe’s Catholic diocese arising from clerical sex abuse, according to diocesan accounts for 2011 published yesterday.
They show that €20,748 was paid under that heading last year compared to €428,162 in 2009 and 2010. It brings to €2.44 million the total paid to survivors of clerical abuse there since 2003.
Diocesan spokesman Fr Brendan Quinlivan said yesterday that such payments to survivors came from a special fund, called the Bishop’s House donation, established from the sale of six acres of land beside the Bishop’s House in Ennis.
The 2011 accounts also show that the diocese received over €1 million from a will which stipulated that the money could not be used for the day-to-day running of the diocese.
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