TY - JOUR AU - Yvonne Murphy PY - 2013/12/18 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Clerical Child Abuse: The Irish Experience JF - Victoria University Law and Justice Journal JA - VULJ VL - 3 IS - 1 SE - Michael Kirby Justice Oration DO - 10.15209/vulj.v3i1.23 UR - https://vulj.vu.edu.au/index.php/vulj/article/view/23 AB - This article has been adapted from the 3rd Michael Kirby Justice Oration, delivered at the College of Law & Justice, Victoria University, Melbourne on 7 March 2013. Ireland has been overwhelmed in the past two decades by what the Catholic Church itself has called ‘a tsunami’ of revelations of clerical child abuse – physical as well as sexual – of the meticulous concealment of abuse and abusers and of a long-established, and almost universal policy of protecting the assets and reputation of the Church, in preference to exposing the abusers. Between 2006 and 2009 Judge Yvonne Murphy chaired a Commission of Inquiry into the child sex abuse scandal in the Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin. ER -