IRELAND
Irish Independent
Sarah MacDonald
PUBLISHED
21/12/2015
Archbishop Diarmuid Martin has strongly defended the findings of the 2009 Murphy Report into the handling of clerical sexual abuse in the Dublin diocese following criticism of the treatment of Bishop Dermot O’Mahony.
Bishop O’Mahony died on December 10, aged 80.
At the conclusion of his funeral Mass, Bishop Eamonn Walsh said the society in which Bishop O’Mahony lived “ignored the principle of equity – audi alteram partem – hear the other side”.
However, speaking to journalists yesterday after a Mass and rite to open a Door of Mercy at the Pro Cathedral in Dublin, Archbishop Martin said that Bishop O’Mahony had had “ample opportunity during the working of the commission and afterwards” to put his case across.
He said Dr O’Mahony had had “a robust engagement” with Judge Yvonne Murphy’s commission.
He was assisted by “very competent” lawyers, paid for by the archdiocese of Dublin following his refusal to use the diocese’s lawyers.
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