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BBC News
By Andy Martin
BBC News
Cardinal Brady became the Catholic Primate of all-Ireland in 1996, but the appointment that may define his career was made 21 years earlier.
As a Bishop’s secretary in 1975, he was tasked with investigating a complaint of sexual abuse made against a fellow priest, the man who would later be exposed as Ireland’s most prolific paedophile, Fr Brendan Smyth.
The manner in which he handled that internal church inquiry has come under intense scrutiny in a BBC ‘This World’ investigation.
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