Diocese urges victims of paedophile Fr Malachy Finnegan to contact them

Notorious paedophile Fr Malachy Finnegan, who served in the Diocese of Dromore in Co. Down, had worked as a curate in Rosenallis in the Slieve Bloom mountains from 1953 to 1956. File photo: Alan Lewis

Survivors of clerical sexual abuse or “sexual grooming” are being urged to contact a Catholic diocese where a priest who served in Laois also worked.

Notorious paedophile Fr Malachy Finnegan, who served in the Diocese of Dromore in Co. Down, had worked as a curate in Rosenallis in the Slieve Bloom mountains from 1953 to 1956.