50% rise in clerical abuse claims

Updated: 10:24, Wednesday, 8 March 2006

There has been a 50% increase in the number of Catholic priests working for the Dublin diocese who have been accused of abusing children.

There has been a 50% increase in the number of Catholic priests working for the Dublin diocese who have been accused of abusing children.

Approximately 350 victims have been identified in the diocese's two-year-old trawl which goes back to 1940.

Archbishop Diarmuid Martin said as many as 40 others may also have been abused.

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