Priest gets suspended sentence for sexual offences with teenager

A teenage boy who went to confession, had his clothes removed and his genitals touched by a priest today saw the culprit being given an 18-month suspended sentence.

Brendan Wrixon, aged 74, was a priest in North Cork at the time and was acting as confessor Judge Seán Ó Donnabháin during a religious workshop organised in Mallow by the diocese of Cloyne.