IRELAND
Irish Times
Barry Roche
Sat, Nov 15, 2014
The Missionaries of the Sacred Heart have apologised for the hurt caused by one its congregation after he was convicted of sexually abusing two boys at a boarding school run by the order in Co Cork in the 1970s and 1980s.
Tadhg Ó Dálaigh (71), of Woodview, Mount Merrion Avenue, Dublin, pleaded guilty earlier this year to abusing one of the boys at Coláiste an Craoí Naofa in Carrignavar in 1982 and 1983
He was convicted by a unanimous verdict of a jury following a two day trial at Cork Circuit Criminal Court in June of sexually assaulting another boy at the boarding school on a date in 1979.
Ó Dálaigh was back in court for sentence yesterday when Judge Donagh McDonagh heard victim impact statements from both the boys – now middle aged men – about how their lives had been affected by the abuse.
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