DUBLIN (IRELAND)
Independent
March 15, 2018
By Ian Begley
A priest who sexually abused children in Northern Ireland is said to have worked in a parish in Co Laois.
Fr Malachy Finnegan worked as a curate for three years in Rosenallis in the Slieve Bloom mountains from 1953 to 1956.
A spokesman from the Diocese of Kildare and Leighlin confirmed to RTÉ it had “no knowledge or record of any complaint or allegation concerning Fr Finnegan”.
Finnegan later moved to the Diocese of Dromore where he is known to have abused children at St Colman’s College in Newry.
Earlier this week, former president Mary McAleese called on the authorities in Northern Ireland to launch a public inquiry into the Diocese of Dromore’s response to abuse complaints, which stretch back to the early 1970s.
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