DEPRAVED

“A VERY disturbed man who is always going to be dangerous. He could not be let near schools, children, confession without a grille...”

That was the damning opinion contained in a 1988 psychiatrist’s report on former Dublin priest Tony Walsh. He carried out a catalogue of abuse over three decades which included tying up one boy with his vestment ropes before raping him. Yet it took until January 1996 before the Pope dismissed him as a priest.

Now, the full shocking details of Walsh’s abuse over 15 years of dozens, if not hundreds, of young children and the lengths the diocese went to in covering up his crimes can be made public.