Irish Prime Minister launches scathing attack on Vatican for failure to tackle child sex abuse by priests

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Irish prime minister Enda Kenny has launched a blistering attack on the Vatican, accusing it of "dysfunction, disconnection and elitism" in its failure to tackle clerical child sex abuse.

His hard-hitting comments came in a parliamentary debate on a report last week which accused the Roman Catholic Church of failings in its handling of abuse allegations against 19 clerics in the diocese of Cloyne, southern Ireland.

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