Paddy Doyle: Newspaper Articles Archive

Newspaper Articles Archive

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$3m paid over abuse by Irish priest

Secrecy of nursing home abuse

"They bow their heads in his presence when he should be bowing to them."

Defence counsel calls for time limit in sex cases

"makes a mockery of the legal system"

Residential Institutions Redress Board

Child abuse commission to include judicial placements

Amendments to child abuse Bill may let some avoid responsibility

A skewed view of the evidence

Former Irish priest gives deposition on abuse to US lawyer

Order rejects claim of serious abuse

O'Reilly urges Church to fight back on abuse

57 victims of abuse take own lives in five years

Liffey suicide is latest victim of abuse to die

Legal firms got €9m in abuse cases

"Pope 'obstructed' sex abuse inquiry

Visit by Pope Benedict XVI here not the best way to go

Abuse body not to have full hearings on all claims

Institutional abuse could cost €624m

Secretive cardinals in denial

CARDINAL LAW'S MASS FOR THE POPE

Woman is awarded €1.7m for sex abuse

Diocese 'cannot afford' to pay abuse claimants

Child abuse inquiry legislation published

The bishops should know that accountability is now expected

Catholics' €26.5m bill for abuse fund

How we can right this hidden hurt

Unfair attacks on religious

Church asks rich to pay sex abuse bill

The abuse deal is a five-alarm scandal...

Supreme Court cuts sex abuse award by EUR250,000

Abuse compensation fund almost depleted, say bishops

Abuse commission told nun 'vilified'

Church is warned on €7.5m shortfall in damages fund

Survivors take dim view of 'sweetheart' deal

Civil servants 'let religious off hook' on abuse payouts

Abuse fund has charity status

SEXUAL ABUSE AT ST JOSEPH'S

Abuse award opens lawsuit floodgates

97% of abuse in Ireland carried out by laity

SEXUAL ABUSE AT ST JOSEPH'S

Piling insult upon injury

Critical redress scheme report delayed

'I hope case gives courage to others'

€370,000 award may see abuse victims bypass redress scheme

ISPCC action led to Ray's cruel nightmare

Bishop apologises to Derry parishioners over levy

PAC report will criticise sex abuse compensation

Bishop withdraws controversial levy for compensation

Mass collections used for sex abuse payments

School manager denies hearing of sex abuse

Missionary indecently assaulted teenage nephew

Nun ignored abuse victim's pleas for help, court told

Cleric who abused boy walks free

Curate accused of sex abuse 'is a wounded man'

Church plans to publish annual abuse claims against priests

Baby A demands the truth

Church moves to block child abuse

Sex abuse case priest: I'm sorry for my mistake

Cleaner ‘abused children in church’

Former Marist Brother is guilty of assault

Relaxation of abuse inquiry rules criticised

Abuse payments average €77,000 - even to dead

Punishment for paedophiles must fit society's outrage

Abuse group gets charity status

Inquiry told of girls with lice and bruising in industrial school

Church needs €50m over next 10 years for sex abuse victims

Cardinal admits he provoked anger in abuse row

Pope sacks priests

..'implications' for Redress Board

Hunger striker receives €150,000 for abuse

Church sex abuse probe draws blank

Religious orders 'must pay €7.5m shortfall' to cover claims

Child abuse bill to fall short of estimates

Bishop's house may be sold to compensate abuse victims

Bishop criticises church over child sex abuse

Child abuse state compensation scheme gets €170m, 42% rise

Confusing gays with abusers

Bruno's simple request

€150m awarded so far to abuse victims

Abuse claim is smear, says campaigner

Claim on Ferns inquiry finding dismissed

Abuse report

'Evil' priest who sexually abused brother and sister jailed

Gay sex ring at seminary revealed in Ferns report

Redress list excludes key groups

Property worth €80m is handed over to State

Champion of the voiceless

€150m bill for abuse and 2,700 claims to come

Priest recalls beatings he saw

Sex abuse 'a problem' in the 1950s, priest admits

Child abuse inquiry set to end in 2008

Abuse scandals 'used as excuse' to leave Church

13 institutions to be added to the redress schedul

Church sets up website

Talks on abuse policy this week

Bishops bash media, again

Bishops insist they accept need for expert advice on abuse cases

Archbishop fears more abuse scandals

Abuse victims lose heart at the Catholic church's betrayal

I hope they taste fear, says child abuse victim

Abuse commission has cost EUR17m

Churchmen join board of One in Four charity

The bishops must yield in child guidelines row

RYAN COMMISSION¹S SHORTCOMINGS

Church plans talks to resolve impasse on child abuse policy

Church's child-abuse group disbanded over procedures

Church in conflict over new policy on sex abuse

More abuse victims to be compensated under board's remit

Letterfrack forms Irish entry for Venice exhibition of architecture

Rape of boy during papal visit recalled

Details of abuse were often written in Latin

Every child 'tried to run away'

'Boys' Town' founder concerned mainly about penal system

Brother gets bail on sex charges

Sex abuse suspect flown home to face trial

Nun court ruling won't stop fight for justice

THE HARM OF CHILD PORNOGRAPHY

Real issue is scale of sex abuse

Browne backtracks after column sparks fury

At least Browne has the courage to get it wrong on child porn

THE HARM OF CHILD PORNOGRAPHY

Vincent Browne's big blunder

"It is a sad fact that many of the victims of historic abuse"

No strategy to deal with child abuse

Boost for Catholic ‘abuse’ victims

Fury as abuse victims denied official inquiry by Executive

Bishops plan new group to assist sex abuse victims

Abuse hearing legal fees cost tens of millions

State could face €600m bill for child abuse

Inquiry dismissed

Trial of sex charge priest collapses

Ex-Brother gets court order preventing trial

State to pay victim of abuse by jailed Franciscan brother

The Vatican's big secret

Slowly pulling the curtain back on an era of tragic institutional abuse

Priest defends how order ran reformatory

Emergence of clerical sex abuse as issue due to media..

Church's awareness of sex abuse examined

St John of God's cannot establish abuse claims

Homes may have been 'conducive' to violence

Abuse survivor attacks officials over detention system

'Authoritarian atmosphere' prevented claims of abuse

Minister warned not to abandon vaccine inquiry

Priests in 'hurt' parish reach out to sex abuse victims

BERTIE'S APPEARANCE BEFORE THE COMMISSION

Religious orders defend €128m deal with State

O Brothers, where art thou?

Religious to be quizzed on indemnity agreement

Ahern pledges to 'see it all through' on abuse

Case numbers rose after 1999 apology

Bertie Ahern before the Commission

Church ‘scapegoated Comiskey in sex abuse scandal’

Rome HQ files reveal 30 proven abuse allegations

Brothers doubt validity of recent abuse allegations

Sisters give evidence on abuse cases

Art show 'brings home' victims of institutional abuse

Child-caring nuns tell of overwork and little funding

Abuse in institutions noted by officials

Allegations of abuse at Dominican orphanage

Officials and bishops clash about discussions

Child abuse inquiry to publicly question religious order

Ahern to speak at child abuse inquiry.

One-third of abuse claims withdrawn

Probe into orphanage vaccine trials under threat

Dublin abuse inquiry speed-up

Church property row forces editor to quit

Christian Brothers decide to drop appeal

Retired brother sexually abused boys over 40 years

Nine-year Garda (Irish Police) inquiry into abuse at boys' home

"the wonderful conditions in which the cattle are kept in marked contrast to the care and feeding of the boys."

Mercy sisters could find no evidence of abuse on files

Ahern for child abuse inquiry next month

Little evidence of sexual abuse in institutions

Boys abused at school, admits order

Religious orders to appear before PAC

Alleged child abusers not to be named

Residential abuse committee seeks legal changes

"Paddy was standing in the dock in Wexford District Court".

State order for inquiry into vaccine trials invalid

You have been banished from the citadel of childhood

Church shows child policy to victim groups

CATHOLIC CHURCH AND CHILD ABUSE

An archbishop who listens is a good start

Orders asked to defend 'abusers' unjustly accused

Bishops with feet of clay

Saint hid sex abuse, says author

Redress Board defends awards to victims

Gardai (Police) to get file on sexual abuse of girls in care

TAOISEACH'S (Irish Prime Minister) APOLOGY AND STILL LITTLE REDRESS

THE SMALL PRINT OF HUNGER STRIKE SETTLEMENT

NEW COMMISSION PROPOSALS MUST NOT INTRODUCE BACK DOOR SAMPLING

When in Ireland, Connell and Co do as the Romans do

Change to law setting up commission likely

Dropping name and shame policy will let inquiry proceed

'Sobering' proposals get broad welcome

Review of Redress Board called for

'Brave and positive step towards healing'

Sisters of Mercy break ranks

Abuse victims welcome apology by nuns

Hunger striker bears witness to Ireland's dirty secret

The church's €5bn Dublin goldmine

Tom and the system that failed him

THE Archbishop of Dublin is to be questioned by senior gardai

Archbishop will sell assets to pay abuse victim bill

Nun guilty of 15-year regime of child cruelty

Cleric discusses abuse case with hungerstriker

Hierarchy's agenda is hanging on to power at all costs

“The biggest terrorist group to ever operate in this country were the Christian Brothers,”

Taking Mary Home.

Three trials of vaccines involving children are now known to have taken place

A former resident of two industrial schools has mounted a one-man protest...

"It was a long time ago," or "Why can't we move on"

"But I ask pardon of all whom I have offended"

The resident Christian Brothers lived in luxury, while they starved the boy slaves.

Ferns diocese settles four cases of abuse

Enough questions . . . time for answers on abuse

The Church that is more sinning than it's sinned against

Sex abuse victims call for lifting of 'crime slur'

The extent of child abuse by Catholic clergy in Ireland has never been fully documented

Last year, the Ferns diocese agreed to pay €300,000

Origins of Industrial Schools

The State's deal with the orders on sex abuse was rushed through in 2002

The final bill being faced by the Government is still unknown

The board itself said there "must be consequences"

He is the face of evil: the soul of evil

Abuse deal orders to keep €6m insurance payment

She claims that she suffered severe emotional trauma

Stories from the silence

"It's always bad when a child is abused"

Of course just one case of child abuse is a tragedy

One of the most outspoken victims of clerical sex abuse

THE Catholic Church and society need to reach a consensus

"extreme language and disparaging remarks"

Pupils were 'pre-programmed' for vice

Irish redress system has created a “myth-making machine”

Double standards on abuse

Letter to the Editor.

Be fair to the victims

A CONTROVERSIAL organisation representing people wrongly accused

State has taken only €19.5m in CORI land abuse deal

Victims accuse Irish government of obstruction

"there are so many we know are not true allegations"

Imagine this situation.

An abuse of public money?

THEY were beaten with leathers, ash plants,

It's a wonder Miss Justice Laffoy did not resign as chairwoman

The Laffoy Commission has found evidence of neglect

Compassion long overdue

THE Government is guilty of concealment in a crucial matter

A LEADING psychiatrist has raised concerns

HIGHLY sensitive and potentially damaging documents,

Victims' closure set to be put back a year

When the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse was being set up in the Dail,

In the early 1990s appalling stories of child abuse in religious-run residential homes

"I felt so sorry..."

Groups acting for victims of abuse at State and religious institutions

It is too late for my father

Rape is Rape

Horsman-Hogan spent four-and-a-half years in the Mercy Sisters' orphanage

FORMER nun Nora Wall, who was accused

"There are so many allegations out there that we know for a fact are not true."

The Department of Education and Science

THE Government faces thousands of new compensation claims

For over a year, Florence Horsman Hogan has been speaking out

The Court of Criminal Appeal was told

A HIGH Court ruling which clears the way for the Commission of Inquiry

A way out of the impasse into which the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse

Miss Justice Laffoy has strongly criticised the Government,

The Let Our Voices Emerge (LOVE) group

A religious congregation has paid the State an extra €4 million

THE SYSTEM for compensating victims of institutional abuse

An organisation representing survivors of institutional abuse

"wash away the sins of the Fathers"

A consultant and specialist in disability and abuse has written to the Minister for Health

Two members of a religious order who taught in a west of Ireland school have failed

The commission inquiring into abuse at church and State-run institutions has signed off

Why, almost since the beginning,

TIME to Listen, the Irish Bishops' Conference Report

The Catholic Church in Ireland sought

It made for "sombre reading",

The publication yesterday of the results of a major research project

The Catholic Primate of All Ireland,

A visually impaired boy

The judge wondered 'how such violent sexual assaults were allowed to go unchecked'