IRELAND
Irish Times
Barry Roche
Thu, Oct 17, 2013
Three former teachers at a boarding school run by a missionary order in Co Cork have appeared in court charged with indecently assaulting a number of pupils at the school over a 20-year period from the late 1960s.
The three men, who were all members of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart at the time of the alleged abuse, were charged yesterday following a two-year investigation by gardaí into allegations of abuse at Coláiste Chroí Naofa in Carrignavar, Co Cork, when it operated as a boarding school.
The three, Donnacha MacCarthaigh (80), Tadhg Ó Dalaigh (69) and Liam O’Brien (66), were each charged separately when they appeared yesterday morning at Cork District Court before Judge Conal Gibbons.
Mr MacCarthaigh, a former principal at the school, now with an address c/o Missionaries of the Sacred Heart, Western Road, Cork, was charged with a total of 42 counts of indecent assault on 14 boys at Coláiste Chroí Naofa in Carrignavar on various dates between 1969 and 1989.
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