IRELAND
The Irish Times
GERRY MORIARTY, Northern Editor and CHARLIE TAYLOR
THE CATHOLIC primate, Cardinal Seán Brady, has said he is not contemplating resignation as a result of criticisms over how he handled sex abuse allegations against the paedophile priest Fr Brendan Smyth.
He said he would not stand down as primate following a BBC documentary that revealed how, in 1975, when he was a priest in the diocese of Kilmore, he was given the names and addresses of children who were abused by the serial child sex abuser Smyth.
This information, received from a Co Louth boy, Brendan Boland, who had been abused by Smyth, was not passed on to the parents of these children or to the Garda or police in the North.
Cardinal Brady, in an interview with The Irish Times yesterday and in comments to RTÉ, said he would not be resigning despite calls from a number of victims of abuse for him to stand down.
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