Bishop regrets using corporal punishment on pupils

A bishop has spoken of his regret at the use of corporal punishment during his time at a teacher.

Clonfert Bishop John Kirby talks about the “tough regime” at one of the country’s most celebrated boarding schools in the late 1960s in a revealing new radio documentary.

Bishop Kirby was maths teacher Fr Kirby to the Leaving Cert class of 1969 at Garbally College, Ballinasloe — the subject of the documentary by Saw Doctors manager Ollie Jennings, which will be broadcast on Galway Bay FM later this week.