Murphy Report ‘highly Critical’, ‘dismissive’, Towards Clergy

By Patsy McGarry
Irish Times
October 29, 2013

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/religion-and-beliefs/murphy-report-highly-critical-dismissive-towards-clergy-1.1576188

[with copy of the report]

Priests arriving for a meeting of the Association of Catholic Priests. It commisiioned a review of the Murphy commission

The practices and procedures of the Murphy commission “fell far short” of meeting the requirements of natural and constitutional justice where Catholic clergy called before it were concerned, a review has found.

The review, commissioned by the Association of Catholic Priests (ACP), says the commission “veered off the tight rails imposed by the 2004 Commissions of Investigation Act and wandered into an adversarial arena that concentrated, to an alarming degree, on ‘naming and shaming’ those clerics whom the Commission found wanting in child protection at that time,” it said.