IRELAND
Irish Examiner
Wednesday, May 02, 2012
The founder of One in Four, Colm O’Gorman, has said that Cardinal Sean Brady’s defence of his role in a 1975 abuse inquiry is “just not good enough”.
Cardinal Brady responded today to allegations in a BBC documentary, saying it that a number of claims were made which seriously misrepresented his role in the 1975 church inquiry into Fr Brendan Smyth.
In a statement, Cardinal Brady highlighted a number of “important facts” to the programmes makers six weeks before the broadcast, most notably that the suggestion that he led the inquiry into the abuse allegations were “seriously misleading and untrue”.
Cardinal Brady said that he was a “notary” at the meeting which was outlined in the programme, adding that even now the guidelines currently in place to ensure child protection in the Irish state make clear that the person “who first receives and records the details of an allegation of child abuse in an organisation that works with children, is not the person who has responsibility within that organisation for reporting the matter to the civil authorities”.
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