The Commission set up to investigate the Dublin Archdiocese said today its report will eventually be published in full.

Sections have been censored and abusive priests given aliases to prevent pending or potential prosecutions being prejudiced.

Judge Yvonne Murphy, who headed the inquiry, said it regrets important detail relating to victims, crimes and clerics has been held back but insisted it was out of the Commission’s control.

“The Commission wishes to assure those people that such publication will eventually occur,” it said in a statement.

Any reference to two priests, and one of the cleric’s brothers, has been removed for publication after the High Court ruled there was a danger it would prejudice a trial.

Convicted or dead priests are openly named.

It said: “The Commission recognises that the complainants concerned are likely to suffer the greatest disappointment.

“However, it should be noted that there are also people in Church and State authorities about whose actions a full picture is not available because of the present exclusions.”

Next May, the High Court in Dublin will examine again whether an uncensored version of the report can be published.

The Commission hit out at leaks from the report to a Sunday newspaper.

“For three-and-a-half years the Commission has been in possession of extremely sensitive information which it has guarded carefully,” the Commission said.

“It is a cause of great regret to the Commission, therefore, that the report, or parts of it, were leaked to a newspaper last weekend.

“The Commission considers that those responsible for the leak clearly took no account of the distress that its partial publication could cause to the complainants and to those whose actions are subjected to scrutiny in the report.”

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