Carrignavar school ‘a concentration camp’, say ex-pupils

FORMER pupils of a Co Cork boarding school during the tenure of Fr Donncha Mac Cárthaigh and Fr Tadhg Daly have described the school as “an educational gulag” and “a school that was run like a concentration camp”.

The Irish Examiner has received phonecalls, letters and emails from former pupils praising Senator Mark Daly for using parliamentary privilege to name former Carrignavar College principal Fr Mac Cárthaigh in the Seanad last week.

Fr Mac Cárthaigh, who was a selector and trainer in Cork GAA circles, has been accused of seven counts of sexual abuse and was put on restricted ministry in 1996. However, he has been saying mass, leaving the country regularly and wearing his priest’s collar since.