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PRIMATE'S PLEA:THE ARCHBISHOP of Dublin Diarmuid Martin has appealed to young people not to abandon the church. He also said the church’s response to the current crisis will come from new structures combined with accountability.

At St Andrew’s Church, on Dublin’s Westland Row yesterday, Dr Martin said: “I appeal especially to the young people among you not to abandon the church. Your church lies in the future, the long future which will be there when my generation will have long since gone.”