Priest was victim of a deliberate slander

I SEE Ryle Dwyer has resurrected the old canard about the priest in Daingean who admitted he had boys stripped naked and flogged in a stairwell to make it more humiliating (Irish Examiner, May 6). Allow me to lay that particular ghost to rest.

To begin with, the priest did not admit any such thing and wrote a letter to a daily newspaper denying he had ever made the statement.

But for one long summer of hysteria before that letter appeared, the accusation was repeated day after day ad nauseam and, I believe, mentioned in the Dáil.