IRELAND
Irish Times
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Patsy McGarry
The latest and largest tranche of reviews by the Catholic Church’s child protection watchdog will be published later this morning.
The reports by the Church’s National Board for Safeguarding Children (NBSC) will cover eight Church institutions, including the archdioceses of Armagh and Cashel, as well as the dioceses of Down & Connor, Achonry, Kerry, and Ossory, as well as the Christian Brothers and the St Patrick’s Missionary Society, Kiltegan, Co Wicklow.
This fourth tranche of reports from the NBSC, which oversees child protection in the Catholic Church in Ireland will address both current practice in the institutions investigated as well as their handling of all allegations received since January 1st 1975.
Interest is likely to focus particularly on the Christian Brothers a congregation which incurred severe criticism from the Ryan Commission in its report, published in May 2009.
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