Mary McAleese hits out at 'right-wing' World Meeting of Families

She also told Brendan O'Connor that she made a formal complaint to the Pope about being banned from speaking in the Vatican in March.

Former President of Ireland, Mary McAleese, has said Ireland is "long past the point of accepting words of simple sorrow" from the Pope about clerical sex abuse scandals in the country.

Ms McAleese has also revealed that she has made a formal canonical complaint to Pope Francis about Cardinal Farrell's banning of her speaking at the Vatican in March of this year.