Brendan Curran accuses Sinn Fein of covering up priest's abuse
Following on from
allegations that Sinn Fein/PIRA forced two young families out of South-Belfast
to protect Paedophile Priest Brendan Smyth, Senior Republican Brendan Curran
says he was told to stay silent about another Paedophile Priest by his Sinn
Fein peers.
Brendan Curran Sinn Fein
A former leading IRA man,
who was a security chief for X Factor boss, Simon Cowell has accused Sinn Fein
of helping to cover up the sexual abuse of "hundreds" of schoolboys
by a now-deceased priest.
Mary Lou Mc Donald TD
Mary Lou McDonald has continued to support Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams TD, although is it clear at this point that Gerry Adams TD has concealed the rape of many children including his 4 year old niece Aine.
Brendan Curran
Brendan Curran, a former Irish Army-trained sniper - who was jailed aged 18 in 1973 for 15 years for attempting to murder a British soldier - made the sensational claims as he announced his resignation from Newry and Mourne District Council at a meeting last week.Sinn Fein Child Abuse Cover-up
Mr Curran said he was
prevented 10 years ago from exposing the allegations by a leading well-known
Sinn Fein figure.
Speaking to the Sunday
Independent after the tumultuous council meeting, Mr Curran said: "This
priest is dead now, but he was in every school in the Newry area for years and
abused children in every one of them. People have been coming forward."
"I raised it with the
Republican movement 10 years ago and was told to drop it; it was a negative
story, to drop it; it was a negative issue."
Mr Curran added: "The
leadership was aware of this being raised."
Gerry Adams TD
Gerry Adams TD like a blind-folded Dog fails to see the depth of Evil in which he has been engaged, this Evil ranging from the ordering of mass murder to the concealment both by himself personally and his organisation of what now appears to have been thousands of children raped by Sinn Fein/PIRA members and others closely associated with the Sinn Fein/PIRA organisation such as Paedophile priests.
Gerry Adams TD described in
one word: Deceitful = guilty of or involving deceit; deceiving or misleading
others, dishonest, untruthful, mendacious, insincere, false, disingenuous,
untrustworthy, unscrupulous, unprincipled, two-faced, Janus-faced, duplicitous,
double-dealing, underhanded, crafty, cunning, sly, scheming, calculating,
treacherous, Machiavellian, sneaky, tricky, foxy, crooked
Mr Curran's fellow
councillors were completely taken aback by his bombshell statement.
Witnesses told the Sunday
Independent that rival SDLP and Unionist politicians applauded Mr Curran after
he finished speaking.
Local UKIP councillor, Henry
Reilly, wrote on his Facebook page minutes after the meeting: "Absolutely
incredible scenes in the Council Chamber tonight - Cllr Brendan Curran
announced his resignation and made very damaging allegations against former
Sinn Fein colleagues. He alleged that he had advised Sinn Fein of a paedophile
priest who had abused 100's of children in Newry and was instructed not to
disclose this information. He alleged that local republicans referred to
murdered Mum of 10 Jean McConville as an executed Tout. It was an extraordinary
event and the allegations will be very damaging for Sinn Fein."
However, a source close to
the ex-Ulster Unionist said: "We saw it. It was unreal, boy. We've never
witnessed anything like it, in all our lives."
The day after the council
meeting, Mr Curran told the local Newry Reporter newspaper that he was forced
to "drop the issue".
He did not state if he had
been personally threatened after making his explosive claims, or who told him
to "drop" the matter.
Mr Curran told the newspaper
that the local Sinn Fein community had been dominated by a "small,
domineering clique who try to remove opposition by gang mentality".
Sinn Fein told the local
paper: "If Brendan Curran or anyone else has any information regarding
sexual abuse, past or present, they have a responsibility to bring this to either
the PSNI or An Garda Siochana."
Sinn Fein did not respond to
specific queries from this newspaper relating to Mr Curran's claims at the time
of going to print.
The Police Service of
Northern Ireland this weekend confirmed it would investigate Mr Curran's
claims.
Chief Superintendent George
Clarke said: "We cannot comment on individual cases. However, we will
treat all allegations seriously and investigate them fully. We would encourage
anyone with allegations to come forward and contact police."
Mr Curran represented Sinn
Fein for 30 years on the Newry council before he left the party in 2013 after
complaining of "isolation and bullying".
He had been synonymous with
the Provisional IRA and the Sinn Fein leadership of Gerry Adams for decades.
However, the former Sinn
Fein councillor is now considering contesting the forthcoming Westminster
election.
His main rival is expected
to be former All-Ireland-winning footballer Justin McNulty, who is standing on
the SDLP ticket in Newry and Armagh.
The ex-Provo boasts openly
of his IRA connections on his Facebook page, on which he says he studied at the
"Long Kesh Univeristy of Freedom".
After his release from jail
in 1980, Mr Curran moved into politics for the party, and in the 1990s, headed
up the party's move into the security industry.
In the recent past, he has
been a certified bodyguard for the X Factor's Simon Cowell, Amanda Holden, Ant
and Dec and David Walliams, and Boyzone's Ronan Keating and other top
celebrities, setting up his own Pro-Tec Safety and Events Company Ltd.
Since his move into the
security business, Mr Curran has provided security to some of the biggest
artists in the movie and music world and is pictured on his Facebook page
astride a massive, stg£30k Harley-Davidson. In 2010, he was pictured acting as
glamour model Jordan's bodyguard during a book signing at Eason's in Belfast.
The ex-IRA man also provided security at the 2010 funeral of the late RTE
presenter Gerry Ryan.
His security firm also
helped to marshall the St Patrick's Day parade in Dublin last Tuesday.
