Gardaí knew about Fr Brendan Smyth in 1973, inquiry told

Gardaí knew about the activities of notorious paedophile priest Fr Brendan Smyth in the early 1970s, an inquiry has heard.

Confidential documents from a psychiatric hospital in Dublin have revealed Fr Brendan Smyth, who went on to abuse hundreds of children over four decades, had asked to be admitted after coming to the attention of gardaí in 1973.