Foróige checks if Ferry was youth leader as Irish college is suspended

IRELAND’S leading youth organisation Foróige was last night investigating whether serial paedophile Michael Ferry worked as a youth leader at one of its clubs.

Foróige is understood to be examining files to see if the 55-year-old convicted sex abuser was a volunteer in the 1980s when the club was based in Derrybeg, Co Donegal.

Locals said the former Ard Scoil Mhuire building — where school caretaker Ferry raped and abused children for more than a decade — was the base for the Foróige youth club.