The trustees of Ireland's national seminary have agreed to bring in a specific policy to protect whistleblowers after serious allegations were made about life in the college.
The statement on Tuesday also followed a decision by Dublin Archbishop Diarmuid Martin to pull his students from St Patrick's College, Maynooth, after publicly raising misgivings about the life and governance of the 221-year old institution.
The archbishop referred to claims of what he described as a "gay culture" in the seminary and further allegations that some seminarians have been using a gay dating app. Archbishop Martin said some of the allegations had been shown to be true.
