Priest: Hierarchy deceitful over baptism

Fr Iggy O’Donovan has accused the Catholic Church hierarchy of “luring him into a trap” and behaving in a mean and deceitful way over a complaint made about a baptism at which he officiated.

The Augustinian priest described the person who made the complaint as “belonging to, what I would call, the extreme, right-wing, extreme fundamentalist, I think throwing bottles of holy water at TDs outside the Dáil and things of that sort”.

Fr O’Donovan yesterday explained his recollection of the ceremony in Drogheda at the heart of the controversy.