IRELAND
Irish Independent
JOHN SPAIN
Published 20/07/2014
Transcripts of the secret church inquiry into the abuse of Dundalk boy Brendan Boland by the notorious child molester Fr Brendan Smyth will be published for the first time this week.
The explicit transcripts of the inquiry, in which Cardinal Sean Brady (then Fr. John Brady) took part, are contained in the new book by Brendan Boland, who was an 11-year-old altar boy when he was abused by Brendan Smyth in the 1970s.
The memoir, Sworn to Silence, is published tomorrow on Monday and gives details of the intense abuse carried out by Smyth.
Two years after the abuse began, Brendan Boland plucked up the courage to tell another priest what was happening.
A secret church inquiry was arranged, and he was questioned in isolation by a group of priests including Fr Brady.
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