IRELAND
The Argus
Anne Campbell
Published 23/08/2014
THE DUNDALK man who exposed Cardinal Sean Brady’s role in a church inquiry into sex abuse by paedophile priest Brendan Smyth says the All-Ireland Primate is not resigning, but rather retiring ‘as if he has done nothing wrong’, while also revealing that five more of the dead cleric’s victims have come forward since the publication of his book.
It was revealed last week that Cardinal Brady, the parish priest of Dundalk, had written to Pope Francis ahead of his 75th birthday at the weekend offering his resignation as cardinal, in accordance with the Church’s own guidelines for clergy.
But Brendan Boland, whose book ‘Sworn to Silence’ was released last month, revealed how, as a 14-year-old boy in Dundalk in 1975, he was made sign an oath of secrecy after he told the then Fr Brady, and other priests, how he had been abused by Smyth and gave the names and addresses of others whom he believed had suffered the same fate.
Mr Boland’s book says another boy in Cavan was also sworn to silence and Smyth went on to abuse children for a further 18 years.
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