IRELAND
Irish Times
BARRY ROCHE
MONITORING: BISHOP JOHN Buckley and child protection officers in the diocese of Cork and Ross yesterday moved to allay fears regarding any risk to children from a group of convicted clerics resident in the diocese but monitored from the UK.
Three of the five clerics mentioned by the National Board for Safeguarding Children in its audit of child protection practices in Cork and Ross have convictions in the UK for child sexual abuse but all five have retired to or come on holidays to the diocese of Cork and Ross.
Responsibility for monitoring the five priests lies with their home dioceses in the UK. The audit was critical of church authorities in the UK for not making information on the five priests more readily available to the diocese of Cork and Ross.
However, Cork and Ross child protection officer Cleo Yates moved to offer reassurance, saying the diocese had worked to ensure they were properly supervised.
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