LEICESTER (UNITED KINGDOM)
Crux
October 8, 2018
By Charles Collins
A Catholic priest who helped lead his county’s football team to the national championship has voluntarily and temporarily stepped aside as a pastor in Northern Ireland after “concerns” were brought to his archdiocese about an alleged incident from before his ordination.
Father Gerard McAleer is currently the parish priest of St. Patrick’s Church in Donaghmore in the Archdiocese of Armagh, and a longtime figure in the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA).
The GAA is one of the major cultural institutions on the island of Ireland, and governs traditional Irish sports, the most prominent being Gaelic football – a fifteen-a-side sport that resembles a combination of soccer and rugby – and hurling – which is similar to field hockey and lacrosse.
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