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Irish Examiner

By John Breslin

Brendan Gleeson has revealed he was molested as a child by a Christian Brother who “dropped the hand” on him in primary school.

But Gleeson, in an interview on National Public Radio in the US, said he was not “traumatised” in any way by the incident.

“It was just one of those things where something odd happened,” said Gleeson, speaking following the US release last week of his latest film Calvary, in which he plays a priest in a small town in Ireland.

“Yeah, it’s odd, I remember a particular Christian Brother dropped the hand on me at one point. It was not very traumatic and it was not very, it was not at all sustained, it was just one of these things where something odd happened,” Gleeson said.

“I remember that was in primary school and, frankly, I was not traumatised by…