Family of man raped by priest call for resignation

THE parents and siblings of a man who was raped as a child by a priest, and in adulthood took his own life, have demanded that Bishop of Limerick Donal Murray step aside.

The family of Peter McCloskey, who while serving as an altar boy in the Caherdavin parish in 1980/’81 was raped by the late Fr Denis Daly, believe the Commission of Investigation should carry out an audit of the Limerick Diocese immediately.

“We believe this is of the utmost urgency” in the wake of the shocking findings of the Murphy Report, Peter McCloskey’s parents, Aidan and Mary, his brother Joseph and sister Aida stated yesterday. The family said they were “brokenhearted in the wake of so much human suffering”.