A new report on the Donegal diocese of Raphoe will reveal that 20 pedophile priests sexually abused hundreds of children over a 40 years period. This report will detail another massive cover-up scandal within the Irish Catholic Church.

The report, carried out for the National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church, will be published by the Bishop of Raphoe, Dr Philip Boyce, during the next two weeks.

The report will outline the horrors of the allegations against the priests and how senior colleagues failed the victims.

A source told the Irish Independent ‘There were hundreds and hundreds of victims