IRELAND
The Irish Times
CHARLIE TAYLOR and GERRY MORIARTY
Catholic primate Séan Brady has today seriously criticised a BBC television programme which focused on the church’s handing of clerical sex abuse allegations.
Dr Brady said allegations made against him in the BBC This World documentary, The Shame of the Catholic Church, were “seriously misleading and untrue” and claimed the programme makers set out to “deliberately exaggerate and misrepresent” his role in events.
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According to the programme, which was broadcast on BBC Nothern Ireland last night, a Catholic Church inquiry team that included the then Fr Brady failed to pass on allegations of abuse to parents of some of the vicims of the paedophile priest Fr Brendan Smyth in 1975.
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