IRELAND
Dundalk Democrat
Published on Friday 26 October 2012
THERE was joy, applause and even cheers at the vigil Mass on Saturday evening at St Oliver Plunkett Church Blackrock when Cardinal Sean Brady announced to the congregation that former Parish Priest Fr Oliver Brennan has been fully cleared by the Catholic Church investigation into allegations of child abuse which were made against him.
Fr Brennan had already been cleared last November in an investigation by the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI).
Fr Brennan spoke to the Democrat about his two-year ordeal, the long wait for his name to be fully cleared.
“It has been two years since I have been without a ministry, and a year since I was told my the PSNI that the allegations against me were false.
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