IRELAND
One in Four
A priest and former school principal has lost a High Court attempt to prevent his trial on 85 charges of indecent assault against a schoolboy.
However, the court granted him an injunction preventing his trial on one count of gross indecency against the boy's brother.
Both brothers allege the offences took place in the 1980s in a school where the applicant, then a brother with a religious order, was principal.
The first brother, A, alleged he was indecently assaulted while they were in his car on the way to hurling matches. He claimed he was also assaulted in his office and that the assaults stopped when he struck him with a hurl.
The second brother, B, claimed he was indecently assaulted once after the now 70-year-old priest placed him on his knee while sitting on a stairs in the school.