Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry: Cardinal Sean Brady arrives to give evidence

NORTHERN IRELAND
BBC News

The former leader of the Catholic Church in Ireland has arrived at a public inquiry into abuse by the paedophile priest, Fr Brendan Smyth.

Cardinal Seán Brady will address Northern Ireland’s Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry about a “secret” church inquiry into Smyth’s behaviour in 1975.

The senior cleric has already provided a statement to the inquiry.

He has admitted that he now recognises that the church inquiry was flawed.

Smyth was at the centre of one of the first clerical child sex abuse scandals to rock the Catholic Church in Ireland.

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