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Belfast Live
Outspoken cleric Fr Brian D’Arcy has told how women committed suicide because of sex beast Brendan Smyth.
The rebel priest opened up about the scandals that have rocked the Catholic Church in an astonishing interview published in Thursday’s Hot Press magazine.
Fr D’Arcy discussed his own abuse at the hands of the religious during his youth – and says he would never have joined the priesthood if he knew the extent of the perversion.
And the 71-year-old shared his belief that the actions of paedophile priest Brendan Smyth resulted in lives being lost.
He said: “There have been people, young women, who took their own lives because of what Brendan Smyth did to them.
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