Ex-priest gets four years in jail for abuse

A former priest and music teacher who told the Pope last year he had a history of “abusing young boys” has been given a four-year prison term for indecently assaulting a secondary school student in the 1980s.

Henry Moloney, aged 77, with an address at Kimmage Manor in Dublin, was led away from Clonmel Circuit Court yesterday by prison staff after being handed down the sentence for abuse, which had a “devastating” impact on his victim.

He was given consecutive sentences of 18 months, 18 months, and 12 months, with the last of those four years suspended, as well as four concurrent sentences.