IRELAND
Irish Times
Patsy McGarry
Mon, Jul 7, 2014
The second Irish clerical child abuse survivor to meet Pope Francis this morning was Dubliner Mark Vincent Healy (54). The meeting lasted for approximately 45 minutes and the only other person present was Cardinal Seán O’Malley, who acted as translator.
The meeting was “very comfortable,” Mr Healy told The Irish Times.
In March 2009, Spiritan/Holy Ghost priest Fr Henry Maloney pleaded guilty in the Circuit Criminal Court to abusing Mr Healy and the late Paul Daly when both were pupils at St Marys College in Dublin’s Rathmines between 1969 and 1973.
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He was given a suspended sentence due to ill health and as he was already under strict supervision at Kimmage Manor in Dublin, where he has been since.
Out of ministry and under supervision since 1996, in 2000 Moloney was sentenced to 18 months’ imprisonment for sexually assaulting two other boys at St Mary’s in the early 1970s. He served 15 months.
The Spiritan Congregation, formerly known as the the Holy Ghost Fathers, runs some of Ireland leading schools including Blackrock College, St Michael’s, St Mary’s and Templeogue College in Dublin, and Rockwell College in Co Tipperary.
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