Ex-priest a ‘predator’ who engaged in serial abuse at school, court hears

A former priest who indecently assaulted two boys at a school he worked in and where he was in charge of the welfare of all pupils was yesterday described as a “predator” who had engaged in serial abuse.

Dundalk Circuit Criminal Court was also told that the 61-year-old accused had also been abused himself when he was a pupil in the same school.

The now laicised accused cannot be identified for legal reasons.