Suggestion of sexual exploitation ‘distorted’

POET Cathal Ó Searcaigh has rejected his portrayal in a documentary suggesting that he sexually exploited teenage boys in Nepal as distorted and inaccurate.

The film shot two years ago reveals that boys aged 16 and older, whose education the Donegal poet had been supporting, had spent the night in his room and been sexually intimate with him.

The 51-year-old’s Irish language poetry has been a regular feature on the Leaving Certificate syllabus for many years and he is a member of the Arts Council’s elite artists group Aosdána.