Eugene Greene, a priest who served in the Diocese of Raphoe, was arrested after being charged with committing numerous acts of sex abuse between the years 1965 and 1992.
The report, entitled Child Protection in the Diocese of Raphoe, sought to build greater public awareness to break the social taboo about investigating allegations of clerical pederasty.
This proposal was first put forward by retired Garda Martin Ridge, who investigated the child abuse carried out by Eugene Greene.
[12][13] On 30 November 2011 the National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church published its review of Raphoe having examined all case files from 1975 to 2010 to determine how allegations and concerns were dealt with.
[14] 52 allegations of abuse were reported to the Garda Síochana and the HSE against 14 priests incardinationed into the Diocese during the period 1 January to August 2010.