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Mon 03 Mar 2010Labour calls for Brady inquiry
The Labour Party has called on gardaí to initiate a criminal investigation into the role played by Cardinal Sean Brady in a 1975 canonical inquiry into sexual abuse of children by the paedophile priest Fr Brendan Smyth.
The party’s spokeswoman on Social Affairs Roisin Shortall said today that Dr Brady, then a priest in the diocese of Kilmore, had not passed onto the civil authorities the evidence of serious criminal offences perpetrated by Fr Smyth on two children that presented to the inquiry.
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