IRELAND
Belfast Telegraph
The head of the Catholic Church in Ireland Cardinal Sean Brady has insisted he will not resign – saying his role in a 1975 investigation into paedophile Brendan Smyth had been exaggerated.
The Primate faced renewed demands to resign after it emerged a then 14-year-old victim of Smyth’s warned him in secret interviews that it was likely the late priest was abusing five other named children.
The Cardinal said his role in the inquiry has been deliberately exaggerated and misrepresented in a BBC documentary aired last night.
“I deeply regret that those with the authority and responsibility to deal appropriately with Brendan Smyth failed to do so, with tragic and painful consequences for those children he so cruelly abused,” he said.
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