Allegations of sexual abuse were made against 69 priests in four different Catholic Dioceses including Clonfert and Limerick over a four decade period.
The findings are contained in the second tranche of reviews by the Catholic Church’s child protection watchdog, the National Board for Safeguarding Children.
In the Diocese of Limerick abuse allegations were made against 18 priests, in Clonfert in South Galway -allegations were made against 7.
The Diocese of Cork and Ross found that 26 priests had allegations of abuse made against them between 1975 and 2011- while an audit of child safeguarding practices in the parish of Kildare and Leighlin has found that 18 allegations of sexual abuse were made against 10 priests from the diocese since 1975.
