NORTHERN IRELAND
BBC News
A convicted paedophile priest from County Antrim has been dismissed from the priesthood by Pope Francis.
James Martin Donaghy, originally from Lady Wallace Drive, Lisburn, is serving a 10-year jail sentence for abusing three victims, following a 2011 trial.
In 2013, he admitted indecently assaulting a boy and was given two more years in jail, to run concurrently.
Donaghy stepped down from his duties in 2004 and has not worked as a priest since, but is now banned from ministry.
The Bishop of Down and Connor Noel Treanor said that his diocese had been informed of the Pope’s decision by the Vatican’s Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith.
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