School may have shaped rapist’s personality

Niall Murray and John Breslin talk to former St Joseph’s students who believe Robert Howard could have been abused.

FORMER residents of the industrial school where Robert Howard was sent for three years remember arriving at the forbidding square building, with its high ceilings and dark corridors.

“There was only one exit,” said Michael O’Brien, the former Mayor of Clonmel who spent eight years inside St Joseph’s Ferryhouse in Clonmel.