IRELAND
Irish Independent
Nicola Anderson
PUBLISHED
04/08/2016
The former senior dean at Maynooth College – who was “demoted and humiliated” after expressing concerns about activities at the college in the 1980s – has said the current saga reads “like deja vu”.
And Fr Gerard McGinnity warned “any would-be whistleblowers” to “be prepared for a difficult passage” unless they have someone there to protect them.
He said he can see “the features of what occurred 30 years ago repeated” in a lot of the recent narrative about the national seminary and said that it raises doubts that anything has changed there in the intervening years.
In 1984, as Senior Dean, Fr McGinnity took up senior seminarians’ concerns over the behaviour of then college vice-president Monsignor Micheál Ledwith in relation to junior seminarians – “including concerns of a sexual nature”.
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