Two child sex abuse complaints against former Catholic archbishop of Dublin John Charles McQuaid (above), as well as a separate “concern”, were brought to the attention of the Murphy commission, which investigated the handling of clerical child sex abuse complaints in the Dublin archdiocese.
One complaint alleges abuse of a 12-year-old boy by Archbishop McQuaid in 1961.
The complaints and concern were addressed in a “Supplementary Report to the Dublin Archdiocese Investigation”, published on the commission’s website on July 13th, the day it published the Cloyne report.
Archbishop McQuaid is not identified by name in the supplementary report but is described as a cleric who “has been dead for many years”. He retired in 1972 and died in 1973.
The Irish Times has established that the cleric referred to in the report is Archbishop McQuaid.