IRELAND
Irish Times
Patsy McGarry
Mon, May 12, 2014
Dublin’s Catholic archdiocese has received a glowing report following a review of its child safeguarding practices by the Church’s child protection watchdog.
The review by the National Board for Safeguarding Children (NBSC) took place over four days, from January 28th to 31st last, and involved 125 person-hours on site involving four reviewers, due to “the size of the Child Safeguarding project in the Archdiocese of Dublin. ”
It was published at noon on the Dublindiocese.ie website and is one of nine such reviews due out today.
Others will include reviews of Cloyne, Killaloe, and Meath dioceses as well as reviews of the Presentation Brothers, the Columban Fathers, the Patrician Brothers, the Benedictines, and the Divine Word Missionaries.
In its conclusion of the Dublin archdiocese review, the NBSC said Archbishop Diarmuid Martin should be “strongly commended for the leadership and commitment that he has given to the whole child safeguarding project in the Archdiocese of Dublin. His work is well evidenced in all aspects of child safeguarding that was elicited in the course of this review.”
It said “the reviewers are very impressed by the extent to which the archdiocese of Dublin has taken on its moral responsibilities to monitor, supervise and support priests and former priests who have abused children.”
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