Priest from Dublin denies assault charges

A priest working as a music teacher in a Munster secondary school has gone on trial on eight counts of alleged indecent assault against a student over 30 years ago.

Henry Moloney, aged 77, with an address at Kimmage Manor in Dublin, denies the eight charges which relate to allegations of indecent assault between September 1981 and March 1982.

The alleged victim told Clonmel Circuit Court yesterday that the abuse started within a week or two of the beginning of the school year in 1981, after the accused asked him to join the choir.