Internal reports refer to brother as ‘menace’

A RELIGIOUS brother was described as a “menace” and a “danger” in the internal reports of a Cork industrial school, but no documents survive to reveal the nature of his behaviour or if steps were taken to address it.

The unnamed “Brother X”, since deceased, was assigned to St Joseph’s Industrial School in Greenmount, Cork, which operated until 1959.

Yesterday, the Child Abuse Commission heard that records held by the Presentation Order to which he belonged were incomplete.