Archdiocese ‘must release list of Walsh’s victims’

THE archdiocese of Dublin should release the list of all the victims Tony Walsh admitted to abusing to allow families know if it may explain the suicide of their loved ones, a woman who warned Church authorities repeatedly about his activities has said.

Angela Copely of the Ballyfermot Resource Centre said: “The saddest part of all this is the victims are out there and hearing all this and they know this could have been stopped and it wasn’t..the even sadder thing is the people that have died from suicide.”

She said this may help to explain a spike in young male suicides in the Ballyfermot area of people that matched the age of Walsh’s victims.