In the discussion about the sexual abuse of children by Roman Catholic clergy in Ireland and the coverup by four archbishsops, you’ll probably see some mention of a separate report, the Ryan Report, which came out in May 2009.

As in:

“Report by the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse issued a harrowing five-volume report that took nine years to compile. It said priests beat and raped children during decades of abuse in Catholic-run institutions. The Commission became known as the Ryan Commission in 2003 when Justice Seán Ryan took over running the body from Judge Laffoy”

And:

. . . the Ryan report detailing abuse at orphanages and industrial schools run by Catholic religious orders across the state was published.

And:

The Church in Ireland has been plagued by sex scandals for at least two decades. The disclosures in May of floggings, slave labor and gang rape in much of Ireland’s now defunct system of industrial and reform schools earlier in the 20th century shamed Ireland and further eroded the Church’s moral authority.

“Yesterday’s report came six months after one that found that Church leaders knew sexual abuse was ‘endemic’ in boys’ institutions. It drew on evidence from 2,000 people who said they had been physically or sexually abused while in the care of Catholic-run institutions.

From an Independent article there is this background bit that explains a bit behind the differences in the reports:

When what is now the Irish Republic came into being in the early 1920s, after Britain withdrew from the 26 southern counties, the new state was more than 90 per cent Catholic. From the start it depended heavily on the Catholic church to provide much of its basic infrastructure.

In many ways the church provided a service which tended to the faithful from the cradle to the grave but also at many points in-between, since it ran most of the schools and many of the hospitals and other services.