Foreign Priests Missing out on Child Safety Checks

By Sam Griffin
The Times
February 27, 2016

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/irishnews/article4700861.ece

Sam Griffin

Concerns have been raised that visiting priests from overseas are being granted access to children without providing the proper documentation to prove they are of good standing.

It is understood the issue was raised by the Archbishop Diarmuid Martin at a recent meeting of the National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church in Ireland which advises and monitors best practice in relation to keeping children safe.

The board, established in 2006, is supported by the Irish Catholic Bishops’ Conference, the Conference of Religious of Ireland and the Irish Missionary Union.