IRELAND
Northern Sound
Sunday, October 13th, 2013
A priest in Mount Nugent, Co Cavan has been suspended from pastoral duties over allegations of sexually inappropriate behaviour – according to reports in today’s Irish Mail on Sunday newspaper.
It’s understood that complaints were made about Fr Kevin Smith in September by a woman in her 30s to his superior Fr William Fitzgerald who immediately passed on the information to the Gardaí.
Fr Smith was previously forced to resign in 1994 as Norbertine Abbot of the Holy Trinity Abbey in Kilnacrott, Co Cavan over his handling of the Brendan Smyth child abuse scandal.
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