IRELAND
Irish Independent
Sarah MacDonald
PUBLISHED
03/08/2016
The news that gardaí have told a former seminarian who alleges that he was sexually harassed by a member of staff in the National Seminary in Maynooth that they are taking his complaint seriously and that an investigation will be launched is significant in the latest chapter of the scandal.
A day after the Irish Independent reported the story of a man who made allegations of inappropriate behaviour at the seminary, he approached gardaí to make a preliminary statement about alleged harassment.
“They certainly felt that a couple of isolated incidents which I mentioned did warrant investigation by them, and would be deemed sexual assault,” he said.
“I will be meeting them next week in person to provide a written statement concerning the above.”
Later that day, Archbishop Diarmuid Martin of Dublin described the atmosphere in the National Seminary in Maynooth as “poisonous”.
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