Diocese Mired in Clerical Sexual Abuse
The Ferns Report, published by the Irish Government on 25 October 2005 into child sex abuse in this diocese describes a catalogue of abuse between 1962 and 2002 involving 100 individual cases involving 21 priests during the tenures of Bishop Donal Herlihy (1964–1983) and later Bishop Comiskey.
It is alleged that Tomás O'Fiaich, Cardinal Archbishop of Armagh, had been told about the allegations, as had the Holy See.
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