All the Bishops' Men : Clerical Abuse in an Irish Diocese

by Mooney, Tom

• ISBN13: 9781848890992
• ISBN10: 1848890990
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-08-15
• Publisher: Dufour Editions

Summary

This is a searing indictment of the Catholic hierachy and the society that spawned and protected abusers. It is the true story of how 21 priests carried out unchecked abuse against minors at the Diocese of Ferns since 1966. This case precipitated the first state investigation of clerical abuse, The Ferns Report, which caused shockwaves around the world. Tom Mooney is editor of The Wexford Echo, and has reported on the clerical abuse scandal in Ferns since 1990. He was one of two journalists to report the first ever trial of a priest charged with sexual assault in Ireland.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. 1
All the Bishops' Men	p. 9
Fr Seán Fortune	p. 24
Fr James Doyle	p. 53
Canon Martin Clancy	p. 66
Fr John Kinsella	p. 76
Fr Donal Collins	p. 85
Fr James Grennan	p. 106
Monsignor Micheal Ledwith	p. 127
Canon Law	p. 143
Bishop Brendan Comiskey: His Rise and Fall	p. 170
Comiskey and the Media	p. 206
Epilogue	p. 221
Transcript of interview given by Bishop of Limerick Donal Murray on 27 November 2009, following publication of the Commission of Investigation report into Child Sex Abuse Allegations in the Archdiocese of Dublin (The Murphy Report) to Joe Nash on Limerick's Live 95FM.	p. 249
Interview with Colm O'Gorman in December 2003 by Brendan Keane. which was published in The Wexford Echo.	p. 261
Timeline of Events	p. 272
Bibliography	p. 278
Acknowledgements	p. 282
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