The serial child abuser preyed on at least five girls about which the Murphy Inquiry knows - but certainly many more - from at least 1965 to his death in 1993.

Ciara was aged 11 when she was dragged into a dressing room at a concert in 1971 by Clancy. She was molested and the interference escalated, sometimes in his house or in a car, until full sexual intercourse took place when she was 14.

She became pregnant as a result and went to England in 1974, leaving a note for her parents telling of her condition but not identifying the father. Her mother took her home six weeks later, and her daughter, Rachel - now aged 30 - was born in 1975.

Canon Clancy gave Ciara two cheques of IR£500 each for the baby's upkeep when she was 16, but a year later threatened to take the baby away if she identified him as the father.

Maeve also went to England, this time at the age of 15, to escape from Fr Clancy, but returned a year later. She had been abused in her bedroom for three years from 1965, on three or four occasions every week.

He would molest her while questioning her about her development and on one occasion asked her to his house where he had full sexual intercourse with her. Two years before he died - more than a quarter of a century after he first molested her - Canon Clancy arrived at her door and attempted to kiss her.

Clare suffered abuse from the age of 12 and told the inquiry she was aware of other girls similarly abused by Clancy. He put his hand underneath her shirt or blouse and fondled her breasts while she was playing music.

He then started putting his hand up her skirt and inside her underwear. After several incidents, she began wearing trousers, but the abuse continued.

Judy was in fifth class in Ballindaggin national school in the early 1970s, where Fr Clancy had taken charge of sex education classes. Sent to his house by the principal, he led her into a study.

Kate was sexually abused at the same school from the age of eight. Canon Clancy often took her out of class to give her 'music lessons' in school or in his house nearby. The abuse started with touching and culminated in rape, which continued on a weekly basis until she was 12. The abuse only stopped when Clancy left Ballindaggin and was moved to Kiltealy in 1991.

After his death, Kate got counselling arranged by her school principal, Sr Madeleine Ryan, who told Bishop Comiskey and asked him to pay for it. He agreed.

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