COSTS AWARD Self-confessed paedo priest Tadhg O’Dalaigh awarded legal costs after indecent assault conviction on schoolboy is quashed

IRELAND
Irish Sun

By Ruaidhrí Giblin
1st June 2017

A SELF-CONFESSED paedo priest whose conviction for indecently assaulting a schoolboy in the 1970s was quashed has been awarded legal costs for his successful appeal.

The Catholic Church had funded Tadhg O’Dalaigh’s legal representation, according to lawyers for the Director of Public Prosecutions, who had opposed the costs application on grounds that he was “not out of pocket himself”.

The 73-year-old last week successfully appealed his conviction for indecently assaulting a schoolboy at Colaiste Chroi Naofa boarding school in Carrignavar, Co Cork in the 1970s.

O’Dalaigh, of Blackrock, Dublin, had been found guilty by a jury and was sentenced to five years imprisonment with the final two suspended on December 18, 2014 for the offence.

This sentence was served by the time his appeal was determined.

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