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  Top Clerics Abandon Court Fight

Press Association
February 11, 2008

http://ukpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5gJDbl4hpZmzM07otcCUZjORp0x4g

A potentially bitter court battle involving two of Ireland's most senior clerics in a dispute over the release of secret church files has been withdrawn.

Cardinal Desmond Connell had attempted to stop Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin handing over thousands of documents to a state inquiry into clerical child sex abuse.

But the judicial review at the High Court in Dublin was struck out after lawyers for the churchmen agreed to seek a resolution.

 
 

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