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New Director for Safeguarding and Child Protection appointed
The Archdiocese of Dublin has appointed a new Diocesan Director of the Safeguarding and Child Protection Service, Mr. Andrew Fagan ...
May 12, 2010, 00:00
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Statement by Bishops Walsh and Field
We, Bishop Eamonn Walsh and Bishop Raymond Field, have this evening informed Archbishop Diarmuid Martin that we are offering our resignation to His Holiness, Pope Benedict XVI, as Auxiliary Bishops to the Archbishop of Dublin ...
Dec 24, 2009, 00:00
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Statement by Archbishop Martin
I believe Bishop Donal Murray did the right thing, for his Diocese and for the wider Irish Church and I appreciate the personal difficulty and pressure he has been under ...
Dec 17, 2009, 00:00
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Child Protection Update
This statement is an update of the statistics published in November 2008. These statistics are compiled annually by the Archdiocese and is a record of the information available to the Archdiocese of Dublin ...
Nov 26, 2009, 00:00
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Safeguarding children in the Dublin Diocese
The Archdiocese of Dublin operates Children First – State Child Protection Guidelines -in conjunction with Church Guidelines ...
Nov 26, 2009, 00:00
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Personal Statement of Cardinal Desmond Connell
Personal Statement of His Eminence, Desmond Cardinal Connell, Archbishop Emeritus of Dublin ...
Nov 26, 2009, 00:00
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Archbishop’s Statement on the Publication of the Dublin Report
Comments of Archbishop Diarmuid Martin on the occasion of the publication of the Commission of Investigation in the sexual abuse of children by priests in the Archdiocese of Dublin ...
Nov 26, 2009, 00:00
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Statement on Safeguarding Procedures
A priest of the Archdiocese of Dublin has voluntarily stood aside from his position in a parish as a result of information giving rise to child protection concerns ...
May 10, 2009, 00:00
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Statement of Archbishop Diarmuid Martin on the occasion of the Publication of the First Annual Report of the National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church in Ireland.
Archbishop Diarmuid Martin welcomes the publication today of the first Annual Report of the National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church (NBSCCC) and especially the publication of the Standards and Guidelines document: Safeguarding Children ...
Feb 24, 2009, 00:00
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Statement of the Archdiocese of Dublin on Child Protection
Archbishop Diarmuid Martin notes that as a result of an investigation carried out by the National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church a situation has been reached in relation to a specific diocese in which the National Board now feels that agreed procedures regarding child protection are adequately in place with the full cooperation of that diocese ...
Dec 23, 2008, 00:00
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Archdiocese of Dublin Child Protection Update
It has been the practice of Archbishop Diarmuid Martin to put on the public record updates of statistics concerning allegations of child sexual abuse made against, or suspicions raised concerning, priests of the Archdiocese, or priests from Religious Congregations or other Dioceses who have worked in Dublin ...
Nov 7, 2008, 00:00
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Statement on High Court Proceedings 11 February 2008
I welcome the outcome of this morning’s court hearing and the decision by Cardinal Connell to withdraw the proceedings initiated some days ago ...
Feb 11, 2008, 00:00
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Statement on High Court Proceedings 31 January 2008
Archbishop Diarmuid Martin has learned of the proceedings initiated this morning at the High Court on behalf of Cardinal Desmond Connell, by the legal team which has from the outset represented the Cardinal in all his dealings with the Commission of Investigation ...
Jan 31, 2008, 00:00
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Archdiocese of Dublin Child Protection Update
Press Release issued by the Archdiocese of Dublin, to give an update of statistics in relation to child sexual abuse, on 1st May 2007 ...
May 1, 2007, 00:00
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Archbishop Reiterates Pledge Of Full Cooperation With Commission Of Investigation
The Archbishop of Dublin, Dr. Diarmuid Martin has renewed his pledge that Judge Yvonne Murphy and the Commission of Investigation will have his full co-operation and that of the Archdiocese ...
Mar 28, 2006, 00:00
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Child Protection Update - Press Release
Archbishop Diarmuid Martin has been providing priests of the Dublin diocese with preliminary data concerning child sexual abuse by priests arising from an independently conducted review which examined the personnel files of over 2800 priests ...
Mar 7, 2006, 00:00
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Opening Presentation to The All-Party Oireachtas Committee on Education & Science
Our Children, Our Church represents the most recent in a series of initiatives taken by the Church to both acknowledge and understand the painful mistakes of the past and to do all in our power to ensure that those mistakes will never be allowed to happen again ...
Jan 26, 2006, 00:00
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New child protection policy for the Catholic Church in Ireland
At a press conference today (19th December 2005) in Veritas House in Dublin, representatives of the Irish Episcopal Conference, the Conference of Religious of Ireland, and the Irish Missionary Union launched Our Children, Our Church, the new child protection policy for the Catholic Church in Ireland ...
Dec 19, 2005, 00:00
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Archbishop says Commission of Investigation will have full co-operation of Dublin Diocese
The Archbishop of Dublin Dr. Diarmuid Martin has said the Commission of Investigation announced by the Minister for Justice into how complaints of child sexual abuse against clergy of the Diocese were handled will have the full co-operation of the Dublin Diocese ...
Nov 8, 2005, 00:00
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Dublin Lay people to be consulted on Ferns Report
Following the publication of the Ferns Report, the Archbishop of Dublin, Dr. Diarmuid Martin, has asked priests to begin a programme of consultation with lay parishioners as to how the Diocese can improve child protection structures and learn the lessons of Ferns ...
Nov 4, 2005, 00:00
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