Edited sentence: Cardinal Daly, both as Bishop of Down and Connor, a diocese where some of the abuse took place, and later as Cardinal Archbishop of Armagh, is recorded as having been privately scathing at the Norbertine "incompetence".His senior associate Monsignor Micheal Ledwith also resigned in 1994 and paid money to a boy who alleged abuse.Reviewers of the Smyth case differ as to whether it was a deliberate plot to conceal his behaviour, incompetence by his superiors at Kilnacrott Abbey or some combination of various factors.The abuse by Grennan and others in the Diocese of Ferns in south-east Ireland led to the resignation of the Bishop of Ferns, Brendan Comiskey when similar facts were revealed