IRELAND
Herald
Wednesday May 09 2012
SO, Sean Brady is finally sorry.
That’s all very well, but what I want to hear is a resignation, not an apology.
But, despite widespread unease, disgust and anger at the way he handled complaints of abuse against paedophile Brendan Smyth, Cardinal Brady remains in situ.
The cleric clearly has no intention of throwing in the towel and going quietly into retirement — as anyone with half an ounce of common sense would do.
In fact, Brady’s only response to the tidal wave of calls for his resignation has been a belated, anodyne apology to Brendan Boland, one of the victims of the notorious serial paedophile Smyth.
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