Brendan Smyth victims want new hearing of case

The emergence five years ago that senior clerics in the Catholic Church were fully aware of the abuse by Brendan Smyth in 1975 means three of his victims should get a new hearing of their damages claims, the Supreme Court has been urged.

The three — a man, his sister, and a cousin — settled actions in Northern Ireland in the late 1990s over the abuse by the since deceased Smyth for between £16,000 and £25,000.

The Northern cases by the man and his cousin were against Smyth himself, the Norbertine order, and the late cardinal Cahal Daly, as Church representative.