IRELAND
Irish Times
PATSY McGARRY, Religious Affairs Correspondent
Monsignor Eamon Martin, administrator of Derry diocese, has been appointed Coadjutor Archbishop of Armagh with the right in canon law to succeed the Catholic primate Cardinal Sean Brady when he retires.
Cardinal Brady would have been due to retire when he reached the age of 75 in August 2014 and he may continue in office until that date.
The Cardinal has been subject to much criticism since it emerged in March 2010 that he had conducted inquiries into allegations of child sex abuse involving Fr Brendan Smyth in 1975 at the conclusion of which he swore two boys to secrecy who he believed were abused by the priest.
Following the then Fr Brady’s investigation, Fr Smyth was prevented from ministering in Cardinal Brady’s native Kilmore diocese until 1984. The civil authorities were not informed of Fr Smyth’s abuse of children and he continued to abuse young people until shortly before his imprisonment by a Belfast court in 1994
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