Bishop Drennan is defiant and still refuses to resign.


Will he, his brother bishops and the Pope ever realise that, while he clings on to power, he will be a constant thorn in the flesh for so many survivors of clerical abuse and its cover-up in the archdiocese of Dublin, and proof, too, for so many other Catholics that the clerical church is incapable of reform.


Brendan Butler,


45, The Moorings,


Malahide,


Co Dublin