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In 1977, a “credible” sexual abuse allegation against him was brought to the attention of the college authorities “in order that they would deal with it”, a draft report written by the Jesuits says.
However, the matter of reporting the abuse to gardaí “did not arise in any conversation at the time”, the school’s former headmaster, Fr Noel Barber told the inquiry
I am pretty strongly anti our schools being in the grip of religion for various reasons, but this makes my blood boil.
How many of these cases do we have to hear about before we say, the church and religious orders of any hue are no longer permitted to educate our children?
