Sex abuse complaint lodged with Vincentians

A SEX ABUSE complaint was lodged yesterday with the Vincentian Order about the period the notorious Fr Donal Gallagher spent as a priest in a Cork city parish.

Fr Gallagher spent 10 years at Sunday’s Well, from 1962-1966 and from 1968-1974, before moving to Dublin.

According to the Dublin Archdiocese report published on Thursday, a total of 14 complaints were made against him in Dublin but the report authors said they expect he abused many more. Fr Gallagher abused girls at St Mary’s School for the Deaf in Dublin, many during confession, but there were also complaints about him assaulting young boys.