It is probably worth noting that Dónal Murray, the bishop of Limerick, in his response to the publication of the Murphy report stated he, in his own mind, had done nothing wrong and saw no reason to tender his resignation.

A campaign of support mounted by priests and lay people from his diocese was mounted immediately. It soon became clear though that he would be the one to bear the brunt of the reaction to the report, scapegoat was used by some commentators(not correctly I would think, his actions in the handling of one case were described in the report as 'inexcusable'). It would be sad though if his head was the only one to roll, out of all responsible for the cover ups.