IRELAND
Irish Independent
By Louise Hogan
Friday May 04 2012
A BISHOP has branded the inaction of Fr Brendan Smyth’s superior “inexcusable”.
Bishop Leo O’Reilly of Kilmore last night criticised the then Abbot, Fr Kevin Smith, of the Norbertine Order at Holy Trinity Abbey in Kilnacrott, Co Cavan.
“I find it incomprehensible that Abbot Smith did not take effective action to stop Brendan Smyth committing further abuse against children,” he added.
“This failure to act was inexcusable.”
The abbot, who stepped down in the wake of Smyth’s conviction in 1994, was last night uncontactable.
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