A Clare priest has revealed details of his own sexual abuse at the hands of a member of clergy in his memoirs published posthumously last week.Fr Martin Tierney from Kilfenora, also reveals four unsuccessful attempts to report cases of alleged clerical sexual abuse to bishops associated with the Dublin Archdiocese.
Fr Tierney, who spent much of his working life in Dublin, lived for the last 15 years in Liscannor before he died from stomach cancer last May.
In his book, No Second Chance, he reveals how he was abused as a boy by an unnamed Jesuit priest who forced him to remove his trousers and sit on his lap.
In the 12 months before his death, he had been writing about his battle with cancer in the Irish Catholic newspaper.
He was also a columnist for the Sunday Independent and wrote four books, including a biography of Martin Luther King.
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