IRELAND
The Post
19 June 2005 By Kieron Wood
The disgraced former head of the national seminary at Maynooth, Monsignor Micheál Ledwith, has told students that “there is really no such thing as good or bad" and “there is no God waiting to punish you".
Last Thursday, the Catholic Bishops, who are the trustees of the college, finally published the long-awaited McCullough report into the handling of allegations that Ledwith sexually harassed seminarians.
Senior counsel Denis McCullough was asked three years ago to investigate media reports that the complaints were ignored. He was not asked to report on the truth of the allegations.
His final report was delivered to the bishops in March this year and made public last week, following repeated queries by The Sunday Business Post.
McCullough said that the former senior dean of the college, Fr Gerald McGinnity, had expressed concern to a number of bishops about Ledwith's “apparent propensities'‘, both sexual and theological.