Norris wants official probe on Ó Searcaigh documentary

SENATOR David Norris has called for the documentary about poet Cathal Ó Searcaigh to be investigated by a cross-party Oireachtas committee.

The Donegal poet has rejected suggestions in the documentary, Fairytale of Kathmandu, that he sexually exploited teenage boys in Nepal.

The documentary, which was broadcast on RTÉ 1 last night, revealed the poet had been sexually intimate with boys aged 16 and older, whose education Mr Ó Searcaigh had been supporting. The legal age of consent in Nepal is 16.