There are fresh calls to remove the remains of disgraced former Bishop Eamonn Casey from the crypt at Galway Cathedral.
A new poll shows 60% of people over-55 want his remains removed, with 20% not in favour.
The number falls further for those aged 18 to 24, with just 49% in favour, 17% against and 59% saying they 'don't know'.
It comes a month after an RTÉ documentary revealed the Catholic Church received four separate complaints of childhood sexual abuse against Bishop Casey and one further of a 'child safeguarding concern.
One of his accusers, his niece Patricia Donovan, told the documentary he first raped her at the age of five and that the sexual abuse continued for years.
Eamonn Casey served as bishop of Galway and Kilmacduagh in Ireland from 1976 to 1992. His resignation in 1992 came after it was revealed he had had an affair and a child with American woman Annie Murphy.
Irish Daily Mail News Editor Anne Sheridan told The Pat Kenny Show the focus is shifting to how the Church handled the allegations.
"The debate and the discussion around Bishop Casey's life, how the Church handled the allegations against him and indeed his internment in the crypt of the Galway Cathedral in 2017... is still a subject of fierce debate and discussion," she said.
"The poll in the Irish Daily Mail today shows that there is quite a degree of consensus amongst those aged over-55 in particular.
"It shows that amongst the over-55s 60% are in favour of disinterment, 20% are not in favour and 21% say they don't know.
"Overall, the figures are somewhat different - 49% in favour, 17% say no and 35% say they don't know."
Abuse allegations
Ms Sheridan said the allegations of child sexual abuse against Eamonn Casey span several areas.
"There were three allegations within the Limerick diocese, there was one in Kerry and there was also one in Galway," she said.
"You also have a number of adult matters, separate and completely distinct from Annie Murphy.
"You have a number of consensual relationships with adult women which the Church regarded as an abuse of trust.
"You also had an unwanted sexual advance to another woman in Limerick as well."
'Below the parapet'
Ms Sheridan said the Vatican has distanced itself from him.
"The more recent controversies centre around the allegations against him but also, in particular, how the Church handled those allegations, how the Vatican dealt with Bishop Casey [and] how they certainly tried to keep this quietly below the parapet," she said.
"He was seemingly buried with a funeral and given the full honours of someone who was at one point regarded as a prince of the Church".
She said The Vatican "did not want to have anything to do with Bishop Casey's funeral".
Ms Sheridan said some people believe his remains should stay in-situ as 'monument to hypocrisy'.
"I know a number of columnists have written that his remains should remain in the crypt and this should almost stand as a monument to hypocrisy in terms of the Catholic Church and how it dealt with such men.
"That's one point of view [but] I don't think that's helpful to survivors of abuse in general and I certainly don't think it's helpful to survivors of Bishop Casey," she added.
Eamonn Casey consistently denied all the allegations of child sexual abuse made against him.
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