Labour calls for Garda probe into Brady's handling of Smyth affair

The Labour Party today called for a Garda investigation into the role played by Cardinal Seán Brady in dealing with paedophile priest Brendan Smyth.

The Labour Party tonight called for gardai to investigate Cardinal Sean Brady’s secret talks with child victims of one of Ireland’s most notorious paedophile priests.

Roisin Shortall, spokeswoman on social and family affairs, said detectives should be tasked to probe Fr Brendan Smyth’s role in a 1975 canon law inquiry into the abuse.