Complaint after Daly’s Oireachtas priest claim

A FIANNA FÁIL senator, who used Oireachtas privilege to disclose how the Sacred Heart Missionaries were not properly supervising a suspected Cork paedophile, has been complained to the Oireachtas Committee on Procedure and Privileges.

Matt Moran, from Waterfall, near Cork, wrote to the Committee on August 10 criticising Senator Mark Daly’s questioning of how Fr Donncha Mac Cárthaigh was allowed travel outside the country unsupervised. Mr Moran’s letter was discussed in early October and a letter was sent to Senator Daly asking for his “observations”.

In the month following Senator Daly’s comments to the Seanad, five new allegations of child sexual abuse at Coláiste an Chroí Naofa were received by the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart .