Child Sexual Abuse

The Provincial of the Oblate Fathers of Ireland has been granted an order dismissing personal injury proceedings brought against him, in which a man who alleged he had suffered sexual abuse by an Oblate priest in the 1950s sought to hold him vicariously liable for the priests actions. Dismissing the

A pilot project to introduce a "child-centred" approach to dealing with child sexual abuse, based on the Icelandic "Barnahus" model, has been launched in Galway. The Barnahus, Onehouse Galway service will see the Department of Children and Youth Affairs, Department of Health and Department of Justic

A judge has held that survivors of child sexual abuse in National Schools cannot be excluded from the State's ex-gratia payment scheme on the basis that they have not established a prior complaint against their abuser. Mr Justice Iarfhlaith O'Neill was appointed in 2017, in the wake of a landma