Scouting Ireland could ‘sink’ as it faces dozens of civil cases

Scouting Ireland could be facing as many as 40 fresh civil cases related to child abuse in the new year – the cost of which many members fear could “sink” the organisation.

The organisation has been at the centre of a growing crisis over child sex abuse, both historical and new, and last week it emerged that a trawl of its internal files had uncovered 317 alleged child abuse victims and 212 alleged ...