Fr Seamus Reid connected to Newry sex abuse

NORTHERN IRELAND
BBC News

March 16, 2018

A second priest has been connected to sexual abuse in Catholic schools in Newry during the 1960s.

Fr Seamus Reid, who died in 2001, was not a teacher at St Colman’s College but was known to visit the school.

In 2015 the Catholic Church confirmed a catalogue of allegations had been made against the priest.

In February, it came to light that Fr Malachy Finegan, who taught at St Colman’s from 1967 to 1976, had sexually abused pupils.

He died in 2002.

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