IRELAND
The Impartial Reporter
Sarah Saunderson • Published 2 May 2013
A victim of clerical abuse in the Clogher diocese has revealed the settlement he received would not be enough “to buy a good second hand car”.
Mr. Michael Connolly, abused by a priest in the early 1970s in Donagh, was speaking after the Diocese said it would not reveal the amount it has paid out in compensation to victims.
Bishop Liam MacDaid last week made public “The Review of Safeguarding Practice in the Diocese of Clogher”, an audit by the National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church (NBSCCCI). In it, case files from 1975 to 2012 were examined. It showed there were 23 allegations about clerical sex abuse made to police authorities.
The diocese is refusing to reveal the level of compensation made to victims of abuse here. Bishop MacDaid explained: “It has been our policy that it is the perogative of the victim to give any information on settlements that have been made”.
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