IRELAND
Irish Times
ALISON HEALY in Carlow
Kildare and Leighlin: EIGHTEEN ALLEGATIONS of sexual abuse were made against 10 priests in the diocese of Kildare and Leighlin between January 1975 and last May, according to the National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church.
It made 12 recommendations which the diocese “accepted in full”, its administrator Msgr Brendan Byrne said. The diocese has been without a bishop since Dr Jim Moriarty resigned in April 2010, following publication of the Murphy report.
The audit noted that the Kildare and Leighlin diocese “has had relatively few cases to deal with”. The diocese covers 56 parishes in Co Carlow and parts of Kildare, Laois, Offaly, Kilkenny, Wicklow and Wexford.
Of the 10 priests against whom allegations were made, two are still alive. One of those, Fr Peter Cribben, was convicted of the abuse of a 14-year-old boy in March 2009. Charges have not been brought against the second priest. Msgr Byrne said both were “completely out of ministry” and under diocesan supervision.
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