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  Academic to Monitor Guidelines

Irish Independent
April 10, 2006

http://www.unison.ie/irish_independent/stories.php3?
ca=9&si=1595829&issue_id=13906

THE Minister for Children, Brian Lenihan, has appointed a Trinity College academic to monitor implementation of the Catholic Church's new child protection guidelines in the Republic, writes John Cooney.

Dr Helen Buckley, a senior lecturer in the department of social studies at Trinity, was a member of the inquiry into the diocese of Ferns which highlighted over 100 allegations of child sex abuse by 21 priests from 1962 to 2002.

Her remit is to review and assess how adequately the bishops are operating the new child protection procedures contained in 'Our Children, Our Church'.

 
 

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