Number of abuse allegations against Spiritans is frightening, says former archbishop

Diarmuid Martin: Any inquiry into historical abuse at Spiritan-run schools should be 'survivor-led'. File picture

The numbers of people coming forward with accusations of abuse carried out by members of the Spiritan order at Dublin’s Blackrock College are “frightening”, says the former archbishop of Dublin.

Diarmuid Martin said he could not understand how so many “horrendous abusers were in one community at the same time”.