IRELAND
Newstalk

Aedín Donnelly
12:40 Monday 12 May 2014

The Catholic church’s child protection watchdog says the fact that a priest was convicted of abusing a child this year shows the Church needs to remain vigilant on abuse.

In the capital, 40 priests were the subject of child safeguarding concerns over the past ten years, 27 of them have been sanctioned.

This is the fourth set of reports from the National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church, looking at the dioceses of Dublin, Cloyne, Meath and Killaloe.

The reports are largely positive, with high praise for the safeguarding practices observed in Dublin and Cloyne, the areas covered in the first two reports released today.

But the reports do of course mention the dark past of both areas – when the diocese of Cloyne was found to have inadequately or inappropriately responded to child abuse and where…