IRELAND
Leinster Leader
Published on Wednesday 5 September 2012
Some 18 allegations of sexual abuse were made against 10 priests in the Kildare and Leighlin Diocese between January 1975 and May 2012.
That is according to the review published on Wednesday morning by the Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church.
Just two of these priests connected with the report are still alive, but neither are still ministering within the church.
“My thoughts today are with the survivors of abuse and with their families and I respectfully apologize to them for the hurt and offence they have carried and are still carrying,” said Monsignor Brendan Byrne, Diocesan Administrator, in a statement Wednesday lunchtime.
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