Priest who told boy, 12, it was his fault he sexually assaulted him gets 18 months

The victim was in his mid-30s when he made a complaint to gardaí in 2016 after hearing about the Jimmy Saville cases in England

Tom Brady (pictured) was aged 38 at the time of the assault on the boy who was led to believe as a young child that priests were like “God Almighty”. Photo: Hany Marzouk

A former parish priest has been sentenced to two years in prison with the final six months suspended for sexually assaulting a 12-year-old boy in a parochial house in Galway city in the mid-1990s.

Westport native, Tom Brady (66), with an address at 26 Cloonarkin Drive, Oranmore, Co. Galway, who was aged 38 at the time of the assault, told the boy it was his fault.