Barnardo's head says he was abused

BBC Thursday 3rd May, 2012

The head of Barnardo's in Ireland has spoken publicly for the first time about being abused as a child. Fergus Finlay says he felt he had to speak out while taking part in a debate about the BBC's This World programme which found Cardinal Sean Brady failed to pass details of sex abuse by paedophile priest Brendan Smyth to police or parents in 1975. Cardinal Brady said he accepted he was "part of an unhelpful culture of deference and silence in ...

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