FEARS were growing among victims yesterday that the former principal of a Co Cork boarding school could leave the country permanently after a deluge of victims spoke out about his alleged reign of terror.

FORMER pupils of a Cork boarding school will meet in Dublin this month with the Fianna Fáil senator who used Seanad privilege to uncloak their former principal as an alleged child abuser who flouted his restricted ministry.

SENIOR members of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart intend to interview former pupils and teachers at a Co Cork boarding school as part of its efforts to tackle ongoing allegations of sexual abuse by a former principal.