IRELAND
RTE News
The Supreme Court has ruled that three victims of paedophile priest Brendan Smyth are entitled to a full hearing of their claim for damages in the High Court.
The three had appealed a previous ruling that they were bound by the settlement of cases they had taken in Northern Ireland.
The man, his sister and their cousin – were sexually abused as children by Smyth between 1969 and 1988.
In the late 1990s, they settled actions in the Belfast High Court for £25,000 each for the man and the cousin and £16,000 for the sister.
They say they learned from newspapers in 2012, that the Catholic Church authorities had been informed of Smyth’s abuse as far back as 1975, by another boy. The same boy had also said the man in this case had been away on a holiday with Smyth where abuse occurred.
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