School under fire for giving paedophile employment

PRESSURE was last night mounting on the management of a Donegal school to explain why they continued to use paedophile Michael Ferry as a caretaker after he was convicted of sexual assault.

Calls for information were made by Justice Minister Alan Shatter, Children’s Minister Frances Fitzgerald, Sinn Féin Donegal TD Pearse Doherty and the Rape Crisis Network of Ireland.

One of the directors of Coláiste Cholmcille in Bunbeg, Donal Ó Loinsigh, yesterday said Ferry was not employed by the school after his conviction for sexual assault in 2002, but admitted he continued to do “odd jobs” around the building, which he claimed were “under supervision”.