NORTHERN IRELAND
BBC News
March 12, 2018
A former Irish president has told how her brother suffered abuse by paedophile priest Fr Malachy Finnegan.
Mary McAleese described his experience as a student at St Colman’s College in Newry as “serious, physical and sadistic”.
She has called for an independent inquiry into the Catholic Church’s response to the allegations.
Fr Finnegan taught at the school from 1967 to 1976 and was later school president. He died in 2002.
He is accused of a catalogue of physical and emotional abuse on pupils.
Speaking to Irish broadcaster RTÉ on Monday, Mrs McAleese said the abuse against her youngest brother, Clement Leneghan, continued “all the years” he was at St Colman’s.
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