Interpol is co-operating over poet, say gardaí

GARDAÍ confirmed yesterday contact through Interpol is continuing with authorities in Nepal in relation to the sexual encounters of Irish poet Cathal Ó Searcaigh with teenage boys.

The emergence of a Garda inquiry comes after the screening of a controversial television documentary last week, called Fairytale of Kathmandu, exploring the 52-year-old poet’s sexual relationship with Nepalese teenage boys.

It revealed the poet had been sexually intimate with boys aged 16 and older, whose education Mr Ó Searcaigh had been supporting.