"Jim, what I say and what you understand me to say, are two completely different things."
The what has "Irish" got to do with anything, especially when your own country holds the Gold Medal for clerical sexual abuse and the phenomenon is common throughout the Catholic world
You hade it "Irish" when it is Church generated
The Vatican knew about the abuses and kept silent
They hold information on the details of those abuses and refuse to release them
If you haven't seen Mea Maxima Culpa - I suggest you make a point of seeking it out
It is a documentary - not fiction, and it is based on the American abuse revelations
Your church tolerated Brendan Smythe just as the British part of Ireland did.
There are no National boundaries to any of this - Ireland features because that's where the shit hit the fan, not because the abuse was any more serious her than it was anywhere else - that is something Americans have to deal with - but it would be wrong of anybosy to make it an "American" problem as you have made it an "Irish" one.
Jim Carroll