Sexual abuse allegations made against late Archbishop John Charles McQuaid

Murphy Commission investigated leader who ruled Church with iron fist

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Archbishop John McQuaid (left) was more than an archbishop, He essentially served as Eamon De Valera's right hand man and had total control over all church and state matters during his reign.

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“The archdiocese then organised a further trawl of its files and found a letter ‘which showed that there was an awareness among a number of people in the archdiocese that there had been a concern expressed about this cleric in 1999’, the report states. The ‘cleric’ is Archbishop McQuaid.”

The commission accepted that the failure to hand over the 2003 documentation was down to human error.

In 2010 however, after the commission’s report had been published, Archbishop Diarmuid Martin revealed that he had received another abuse complaint against Archbishop McQuaid.

The supplementary report said “Archbishop Martin was under no obligation to give the commission this information”. The 2010 complaint is also the subject of a civil action against the archdiocese.

Responding to questions from The Irish Times, the archdiocese said that it treated information regarding abuse in a confidential manner, ‘out of respect to all involved’.

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