IRELAND
Sunday World
A retired priest jailed for indecently assaulting a schoolboy in the 1970s must wait to hear the outcome of an appeal against his conviction.
Tadhg O’Dalaigh (73), of Woodview, Mount Merrion Avenue, Blackrock, had pleaded not guilty at Cork Circuit Criminal Court to one count of indecently assaulting a 16-year-old boy at Colaiste Chroi Naofa in Carrignavar, Co Cork on a date unknown in 1979.
He was found guilty by a jury and sentenced to five years imprisonment with the final two suspended by Judge Donagh McDonagh on December 18, 2014.
O Dalaigh moved to appeal his conviction today on the principle ground that the trial judge erred in refusing to give the jury a corroboration warning – that it would be dangerous to convict a person in the absence of corroboration.
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