Shame on the Church, and on us, for letting bad apples rot the barrel

THE Christian Brothers were in the news again this week in relation to a colleague who was apparently handy with his fists.

He got into trouble over assaulting children in Clonmel, so like the other misfits in the order, he was transferred to an industrial school where the children were unlikely to have any parents with clout in the community.

He continued his reign of terror in St Joseph’s in Tralee before he was sent to the Glin industrial school where he broke a boy’s jaw. He was then banished back to Tralee for six more years.