A former senior dean at St Patrick’s College Maynooth said he has a sense of “déjà vu” when reading of the current culture at the college and that he was “shafted” by his superiors when he raised concerns about complaints made against a vice-president there in the 1980s.

A US court has ruled that no admissible evidence could be produced to link Oliver O’Grady, the Limerick born priest convicted of child rape, and the Archdiocese of Cashel and Emly.