This section is reprinted from The Irish Times, May 11, 2009. View original link at http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/0511/1224246255488.html

A priest has stood aside voluntarily from his position in a Dublin parish “as a result of information giving rise to child protection concerns”, the Catholic Archbishop of Dublin Dr Diarmuid Martin has confirmed.

In a statement yesterday, the Archbishop said it was “a matter of regret and concern that one Sunday newspaper chose to publish details of a priest standing aside” and he hoped “this decision would not in any way compromise a process which has the safety of children at its core”.

A statement from the archdiocese said the priest’s standing aside was normal procedure in inquiries of this type and did not “denote innocence or guilt”.

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