Brendan Gleeson: I was molested by Christian Brother

Brendan Gleeson has revealed he was molested as a child by a Christian Brother who "dropped the hand" on him in primary school.

But Gleeson, in an interview on National Public Radio in the US, said he was not “traumatised” in any way by the incident.

“It was just one of those things where something odd happened,” said Gleeson, speaking following the US release last week of his latest film Calvary, in which he plays a priest in a small town in Ireland.