Archbishop John Charles McQuaid 1940 - 1972, Archbishop Dermot Ryan 1972 - 1984, Archbishop Kevin McNamara, 1985 - 1987, Archbishop Desmond Connell 1988 - 2004.

Vatican and nuncio ignored letters on abuseLETTERS SENT to the Vatican and the papal nuncio in Ireland seeking information on clerical sex abuse cases were ignored, the Dublin diocesan report disclosed yesterday.

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Church 'routinely covered up' child sexual abuse for 30 yearsFOUR SUCCESSIVE archbishops of Dublin responded to clerical child sexual abuse over a 30-year period in their diocese with “denial, arrogance and cover-up”.
Docklands body will need aid over Glass Bottle siteTHE DUBLIN Docklands Development Authority said yesterday it would require financial assistance from the State as a result of its purchase of the Irish Glass Bottle site.
'Irish Times' ordered to pay legal costs in full THE IRISH Timeshas been ordered by the Supreme Court to pay total legal costs, estimated at more than €600,000, of the Mahon tribunal’s failed bid for a court order compelling Editor Geraldine Kennedy and Public Affairs Correspondent Colm Keena to answer questions on the source of an article about payments to former taoiseach Bertie Ahern.
Hunt continues for raider who stabbed shopkeeper to deathGARDAÍ WERE still searching last night for the assailant who killed a shopkeeper during a robbery in Arklow, Co Wicklow, on Wednesday night.

CORRUPTION OF power and the fundamentally rotten nature of relations between the Catholic Church and the State has been laid bare in a damning report into the rape and sexual abuse of children in the Dublin archdiocese over a 30-year period. Denial and cover-up was the order of the day. Nothing changed until the late 1990s when a succession of scandals involving paedophile priests outraged public opinion and forced reforms through the courts, the Oireachtas and the archdiocese itself. There is still a distance to go.

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A Spiderman balloon moves through Columbus Circle near the start of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York, U.S. November 26. Photo: Finbarr O'Reilly/REUTERS
The space shuttle Atlantis over the Mediterranean Sea, near the Algerian coast released November 26. Photo: NASA/REUTERS
Soldiers from 4th Battalion The Mercian Regiment march along The Mall in central London, England to Clarence House where the Prince of Wales will present campaign medals to the regiment, November 26. Photo: Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire
Riverside Theatre ridden by Barry Geraghty (right) jumps the water fence in third place the first time around the course and goes on to win the the Rooney/Hall Beginners' Chase during the The Winter Festival at Newbury Racecourse, Berkshire, England, November 26. Photo: Nick Potts/PA Wire.
Train workers from the Korean Railway Workers' Union shout slogans during their general strike in front of the Seoul railway station, South Korea November 26. Photo: Choi Bu-Seok/REUTERS
A visitor sits on Verner Panton's "Phantasy Landscape" which is made of fabric, wood and foam rubber at the Tokyo Opera city art gallery in Tokyo, Japan November 26. Photo: Kim Kyung-Hoon/REUTERS
People light candles and shout slogans at a vigil to commemorate the victims of last year's militant attacks, outside the Taj Mahal hotel in Mumbai, India November 26. Photo: Punit Paranjpe/REUTERS
Journalists are silhouetted as they wait outside the courtroom before the trial against Prince Ernst-August von Hannover at the district court in the northern German city of Hildesheim, November 26. Photo: Christian Charisius/REUTERS
A local washes vegetables at a dried-out pond that is partially filled by new rainfall on the outskirts of Yingtan, Jiangxi province, China November 26. China said on Thursday that its promise to cut carbon intensity up to 45 percent by 2020 is a "binding goal", and that it will use strengthened policies including taxation and financial measures to reach the target. Photo: Stringer/REUTERS
A young boy waits in a local community centre after being evacuated from his home after a fire in a block of flats in Peckham, November 26, in London, England. Over 180 Fire crew tackled the blaze that started on a construction site and subsequently spread to neighbouring homes. Photo: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images

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