NORTHERN IRELAND
Belfast Telegraph
04 JUNE 2015
A confessional and paintings of “saintly” monks are among items under the hammer at notorious paedophile priest Brendan Smyth’s former abbey this weekend.
Pictures and statues of boys, girls and cherubs are also among the nearly 600 lots for sale as the serial child abuser’s former order has been forced to sell off Kilnacrott Abbey in Co Cavan.
The doomed home of the Nobertines in Ireland, near Ballyjamesduff, was where Smyth sheltered for years during the 1990s on the run from police in Northern Ireland.
The scandal led to the collapse of Dublin’s Fianna Fail/Labour coalition government, under then Taoiseach Albert Reynolds.
The abbey has since been sold for 610,000 euro to a US-based religious organisation known as Direction For Our Times.
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