IRELAND
Irish Examiner
By Claire O’Sullivan
Irish Examiner Reporter
A decision is likely early next year on an appeal by a Cork priest into a secret Church court’s decision to defrock him for the serial sexual abuse of minors and teenagers.
As part of the appeal, the priest, Dan Duane, aged 76, was invited to Rome by the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith to outline his objections to the diocese’s decision. He is not obliged to attend.
He was the subject of 11 complaints of abuse and three years ago, Cork Circuit Criminal Court directed that he be found not guilty of indecently assaulting a teenager.
The judge made the direction on the grounds of the 30-year delay in making the complaint.
A month later, Duane was found not guilty of indecently assaulting a 14-year-old girl 31 years earlier.
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