Sign up to The Irish Times Archive (1859 - 2008)My Account »

THE MINISTER for Foreign Affairs, Micheál Martin, is being urged to meet the papal nuncio to establish why the Vatican refused to supply information to the Commission of Investigation into the Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin.

Labour MEP Nessa Childers said: “The Government appears to have settled for the papal nuncio’s account of events and seems prepared to allow this matter to lie unchallenged.”