1.   He has campaigned against the privatisation of the Tees and Hartlepool Port Authority and was a prominent campaigner during the Cleveland child sex abuse scandal.

2.   As the expanding sexual abuse scandal engulfs the Roman Catholic Church, Mirkin has become an object of outrage.

3.   As the sexual abuse scandal has escalated, many victims and lawyers have broken their confidentiality agreements.

4.   At the same time, the Roman Catholic church remains roiled by a sexual abuse scandal.

5.   At the mass, the cardinal did not mention the deposition, but he did mention the sex abuse scandal.

6.   Bietighofer was the second priest to commit suicide since the priest sex abuse scandal broke into the open in January.

7.   A brief shouting match erupted between one man who was blaming homosexuality for the sex abuse scandal and another who said he was a gay rights activist.

8.   A clergy sexual abuse scandal toppled the Fianna Fail-Labor coalition government a few weeks ago.

9.   All that changed when the sexual abuse scandal engulfed the church, giving the organization, known as SNAP, a news media platform it had never known.

10.   But the ongoing clergy abuse scandal should be more than an opportunity to score political points in a PR war.