IRELAND
Digital Spy
By Andrew Laughlin
Catholic primate Séan Brady has today accused the BBC of making “seriously misleading and untrue” allegations against him in a documentary.
Aired on BBC Northern Ireland last night (May 1), This World documentary The Shame of the Catholic Church focused on the Church’s handing of clerical sex abuse allegations in the 1970s.
Cardinal Brady has resisted calls for him to resign as the primate of all-Ireland after This World claimed that he had names and addresses of those being abused by paedophile priest Brendan Smyth, but had not passed the details on to police or parents.
Dr Brady said that the BBC’s allegations against him were “seriously misleading and untrue”. He also said that the documentary-makers had set out to “deliberately exaggerate and misrepresent” his role in the scandal.
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