NORTHERN IRELAND
UTV
The public inquiry into historical institutional abuse is to examine the case of notorious paedophile priest Brendan Smyth later.
Story by UTV Staff, Belfast
It will focus on how Smyth, who was eventually convicted of more than 100 child abuse charges over a 40-year period, got away with his crimes for so long.
This, the latest module of the long-running Historical Abuse Inquiry (HIA), begins on Monday and is expected to last a week.
Smyth was at the centre of one of the first clerical child sex abuse scandals to rock the Catholic Church in Ireland.
Allegations surrounding the priest were investigated as far back as 1975, however it was almost 25 years before he was jailed.
He died in prison in 1997 following a heart attack.
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