IRELAND
BBC News
February 7, 2018
A Catholic diocese has settled a claim for sex abuse by a priest accused of abusing pupils at a County Down school, it has emerged.
The late Fr Malachy Finnegan, a former teacher, worked in St Colman’s College in Newry from 1967 to 1976.
Bishop of Dromore, John McAreavey, said the abuse was “abhorrent” and admitted he made an “error” by officiating at Fr Finnegan’s funeral in 2002.
The school began to remove the priest’s image from its photographs last year.
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