An article in yesterday’s edition concerning allegations of abuse by clergy at the Sacred Heart College in Carrignavar, Co Cork, during its time as a boarding school stated that the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart asked the Catholic Church’s child protection watchdog to conduct a review of child protection procedures at the school.
In fact the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart have asked for a review of procedures in their own organisation and not in the school. The school has pointed out that its child protection procedures are in line with procedures set down by the Department of Education and Skills. The Missionaries of the Sacred Heart are no longer the trustees of the school. The HSE investigation referred to in the story is into allegations of an historic nature dating to when the school was a boarding school. We regret any distress the error may have caused.
An article in the Healthy Start special report in last Tuesday’s edition said that “every day, children are bombarded by hundreds of adverts for junk foods”. Irish television stations do not broadcast junk food adverts during children’s programming.