IRELAND
Belfast Telegraph
Victim of pervert priest says cardinal Brady took notes as he told of vile assaults
By Greg Harkin
Wednesday, 2 May 2012
Between 1973 and 1975, altar boy Brendan Boland was among many victims of paedophile priest Brendan Smyth.
Aged just 14, he plucked up the courage to report his two years of horrific abuse at the hands of the Nobertine Order priest.
It wasn’t an easy thing to do for an adult, never mind a young teenage boy.
He approached a priest he could trust who worked with his local youth club; he in turn told Brendan’s parents and his Bishop.
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