Victim 'feels no joy at resignation'

THE woman who received a public apology from Cardinal Desmond Connell said she felt no joy upon hearing of his resignation as Archbishop of Dublin.

Victim 'feels no joy at resignation'

Marie Collins said the cardinal was "the wrong man, in the wrong place at the wrong time" but that she was looking forward rather than back.

Archbishop Connell had failed to heed Ms Collins's warnings in 1995 about a priest who abused her when she was a 13-year-old hospital patient. The Archbishop did not remove Father Paul McGennis from his parish in the Dublin Diocese and did not hand over the church files to gardaí, despite claiming to have provided full co-operation.

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