IRELAND
Irish Times
BARRY ROCHE, Southern Correspondent
BOARDING SCHOOL: GARDAÍ HAVE confirmed that they expect to forward a file to the DPP before the end of the month on allegations of clerical child sexual and physical abuse at a former boys’ boarding school run by the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart.
Gardaí in Cobh and Glanmire in Co Cork have spent the past year investigating complaints of abuse made by former pupils of the Sacred Heart College in Carrignavar relating to the 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s.
The complaints are of a historical nature and relate to when the college was a boarding school run by the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart, whose members were among the teaching staff involved in the education at the time of about 200 boarders and 150 day pupils.
Originally a seminary, the school, which became coeducational in 1987, ceased taking boarders in 1995, the same year that the first lay principal was appointed.
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