A FIANNA FÁIL senator, who used Oireachtas privilege to disclose how the Sacred Heart Missionaries were not properly supervising a suspected Cork paedophile, has been complained to the Oireachtas Committee on Procedure and Privileges.
Matt Moran, from Waterfall, near Cork, wrote to the Committee on August 10 criticising Senator Mark Daly’s questioning of how Fr Donncha Mac Cárthaigh was allowed travel outside the country unsupervised.
Mr Moran’s letter was discussed in early October and a letter was sent to Senator Daly asking for his "observations".
In the month following Senator Daly’s comments to the Seanad, five new allegations of child sexual abuse at Coláiste an Chroí Naofa were received by the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart .
The complaints refer to the period when it was a boys’ boarding school. It has been a co-ed day-school since the 1990s.
The HSE’s director of children and family services, Gordon Jeyes also launched an investigation into child welfare at the former boarding school. The National Bureau of Criminal Investigation is also investigating alleged abuse at the North Cork school.
The National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church is also investigating the order’s handling of abuse complaints.
It’s understood that a meeting is to be organised by past pupils of the school to discuss the alleged abuse at the school.
The Sacred Heart Missionaries have settled at least two civil cases taken against Fr Donncha Mac Cárthaigh by former pupils at the school where he was principal.
Between 1986 and 2008, seven allegations of sexual abuse were lodged against the former Cork minor football selector, Fr Donncha Mac Cárthaigh by six men and a woman.
In the month following Senator Daly’s comments to the Seanad, five new allegations of child sexual abuse at Coláiste an Chroí Naofa were received by the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart .
The complaints refer to the period when it was a boys’ boarding school. It has been a co-ed day-school since the 1990s.
The HSE’s director of children and family services, Gordon Jeyes also launched an investigation into child welfare at the former boarding school. The National Bureau of Criminal Investigation is also investigating alleged abuse at the North Cork school.
The National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church is also investigating the order’s handling of abuse complaints.
It’s understood that a meeting is to be organised by past pupils of the school to discuss the alleged abuse at the school.
The Sacred Heart Missionaries have settled at least two civil cases taken against Fr Donncha Mac Cárthaigh by former pupils at the school where he was principal.
Between 1986 and 2008, seven allegations of sexual abuse were lodged against the former Cork minor football selector, Fr Donncha Mac Cárthaigh by six men and a woman.
In 1996, he was put on restricted ministry by the Sacred Heart order but the conditions of restricted ministry were breached regularly such as when he was spiritual director on a week-long national pilgrimage to Fatima in Portugal last year.
It’s understood that the Sacred Heart Missionaries wrote to Rome last year asking for Fr Mac Cárthaigh to be laicised.
It’s understood that the Sacred Heart Missionaries wrote to Rome last year asking for Fr Mac Cárthaigh to be laicised.