NORTHERN IRELAND
Derry Journal
Published on Friday 4 May 2012
The head of Ireland’s Catholic Church is coming under increasing pressure to resign over a paedophile priest scandal.
The North’s Deputy First Minister, Martin McGuinness, is the latest high profile personality to comment on Cardinal Sean Brady’s apparent failure to act when alerted to abuse allegations when he was a young priest.
A television documentary this week revealed that, in 1975, a 14-year-old boy who had been sexually abused by paedophile priest Fr Brendan Smyth gave the then Fr Brady the names and addresses of other children who had been abused.
The programme makers claimed Fr Brady did not pass on the details to the police or parents.
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