‘It was, of course, the media which
ultimately forced the Church and state authorities to begin to deal with
child sexual abuse’ The media has been criticised at a conference in Boston for contributing to the decline of the Catholic Church in Ireland.
Speaking in Boston College
at the weekend, Baroness Nuala O’Loan said “in a country in which the
media was once sympathetic to the Catholic Church, it is now
aggressively hostile”.