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The trustees of St Patrick’s College in Maynooth are to meet within the next five weeks to decide their response to the current controversy at the institute.
The announcement by Primate of All Ireland Archbishop Eamon Martin, comes hours after Dublin’s Archbishop Diarmuid Martin, publicly expressed surprise that a trustees’ meeting had not yet been called to address the ongoing crisis.
Yesterday, on RTÉ’s This Week, Archbishop Diarmuid Martin defended his unprecedented decision to move his three seminarians studying at Maynooth to Rome’s Irish College.
He described the climate of anonymous allegations about inappropriate sexual behaviour in the main national seminary as “dangerous and poisonous” saying there was “a strange atmosphere of innuendo” which was “unsettling” for his students and that he had to do something for their futures
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