Pope Francis was ‘disgusted’ by abuse in Ireland

People queue to pay their respects to the late Pope Francis. Picture: Cecilia Fabiano/LaPresse via AP

A clerical abuse survivor has spoken of how Pope Francis put his hands to his head and shook it in disgust when she told him about mother and baby homes and other abuses when the pontiff visited Ireland.

Clodagh Malone, who was born in St Patrick’s Mother and Baby Home, was one of eight people who had a private 90-minute meeting with the Pope on the eve of his open-air Mass in Dublin’s Phoenix Park in August 2018.