It is reported that hundreds of Roman Catholic priests are expected to be implicated in alleged child abuse in Ireland in a major report released today. The Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse has spent nine years looking into allegations from thousands of former pupils of state schools and orphanages, some which date back more than 60 years. It is due on Wednesday while a second report looking...

Yesterday Ireland was rocked by the publication of the Ryan Commission report on the cruelty of the so called 'child care' regimes experienced by tens of thousands of Irish children between the 1940's and the late 1980's. The care of these children, most of them from working class and/or deprived backgrounds were 'outsourced', to use a modern term, to various Religious orders of the Roman Catholic...

In light of the at-long-last publication of the damning report into institutional child abuse by the Catholic Church in Ireland, my best comment is to point you to two articles and a poem by Sean Matgamna, who has first-hand experience of the brutality of the Christian Brothers. ===== Savage Violence in Irish Schools: Why Did They Stand For It? 9 February, 2005 The little boy, Tommy, perhaps eight...

A MAJOR inquiry into the abuse of children in institutions run by the Catholic Church and the state is to be launched in Northern Ireland.

Hey, for all the flak the Catholic Church has had over child abuse scandals, at least the Pope never issued a statement claiming that the real problem was that all this child rape may make people think worse of the Church.

Northern Ireland victims of child sex abuse within the Catholic church are to meet Peter Robinson and Martin McGuinness.

Slugger O’Toole has reported widely on the Ryan Commission Report into decades of child rape by homosexual priests in the Republic of Ireland. The video below is of a victim, a former Fianna Fail Councillor & Mayor,  describing on RTE’s Questions & Answers programme how he was abused viciously by priests and how the Government

A 42 Year old Nonce who is said to be dangerously radioactive may have fled to Ireland ahead of his trial on Child Pornography Charges. He was undergoing Radiation treatment for a thyroid condition and skipped bail. Now thankfully I can’t get inside the minds of a Paedophile but why in the name of God’s arse did you go to Ireland? Yes after a fashion it’s an English speaking nation, but ever...

The number of child sex abuse websites in Europe has soared and the violence shown has become more extreme, the European commission and Europol, the European police agency, warned yesterday. Jacques Barrot, EU commissioner for freedom, justice and security said Europe was facing "an extremely dramatic situation" after the number of child abuse websites increased fourfold between 2004 and 2007. At ...

The former Northern Ireland first minister has criticised the invitation to Pope Benedict to visit the UK in September, after the failings of the Roman Catholic Church to stamp out child abuse by priests