Sinn Féin's Conor Murphy breaks silence over abuse from paedophile priest Malachy Finnegan

A senior Sinn Féin politician has revealed a notorious paedophile priest physically abused him when he was a schoolboy and tried to sexually groom him.

Sinn Féin's Conor Murphy breaks silence over abuse from paedophile priest Malachy Finnegan

A senior Sinn Féin politician has revealed a notorious paedophile priest physically abused him when he was a schoolboy and tried to sexually groom him.

Conor Murphy has recounted how the late Malachy Finnegan dragged him into an office and savagely beat him with a stick before asking a series of explicit questions, including whether he loved him.

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