IRELAND
Irish Independent
25 April 2013
IN his Northern peace process memoir ‘Making Peace’, Senator George Mitchell mused that he hoped he could go with his son into the Stormont Assembly 10 years after the Good Friday Agreement and be bored by the proceedings – a sign of normalcy in democratic politics.
Reading the six reviews of Irish Catholic dioceses by the National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church in Ireland (NBSCCI) – its third tranche – that same sense of ‘normalcy’ is evident as the clean bills of health, notwithstanding historic problems, are handed out.
Only Clogher diocese came in for some criticism of its management of allegations and this was prior to the current bishop’s appointment in 2010. Under Bishop Duffy, now retired, the diocese “consistently missed” opportunities for “preventative interventions”.
Maeve Lewis of One in Four called the reviews “reassuring” and called on the Children’s Minister to accelerate the Children First legislation.
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