Details on paedophile priest ‘not passed on’

Concerns about a priest who was serial paedophile were not passed on to senior diocesan figures or to the authorities in the north west despite being known at a early stage.

A Kiltegan father, Peter Kennedy, spent time providing relief cover in the Achonry diocese in the early 1980s and during his stay he abused a young boy.

He was convicted this year of abusing 18 boys in different parts of the country during the 1970s and 1980s having spent 10 years on the run in Brazil.