Victims maintain pressure on cardinal to resign despite apology

ABUSE victims have maintained the pressure on Cardinal Seán Brady to resign over his handling of paedophile priest, Fr Brendan Smyth, despite issuing another apology yesterday in which he acknowledged shame at his own past failings.

Andrew Madden, a victim of another paedophile priest, Fr Ivan Payne, dismissed Dr Brady’s latest promise of careful reflection as “nonsense”.

“He’s had 35 years to reflect on what he did then,” remarked Mr Madden.