Mass uproar: priest gets garda protection

A PARISH priest was placed under garda protection following verbal assaults on him during Mass in a Co Wexford village.

Members of the congregation were angry over revelations about the priest’s predecessor in the Ferns Report into clerical child sex abuse in the diocese.

Fr John Sinnott, who took over the parish of Ballindaggin from deceased paedophile Canon Martin Clancy in 1992, took the brunt of the outbursts despite his innocence.