A DROGHEDA author and poet has lifted the lid on sex abuse by a Christian Brother in St Joseph's national school in the 1960s.
Terry McHugh claims he was the victim of sexual and physical abuse at the
hands of Brother PS O'Riain (Brother Patrick Ryan, now deceased) and has
chronicled his experiences within the lines and pages of his book of poetry
' The Baby's Not Settling'.
Terry says the abuse began when he was 9 years of age and continued until he
left for secondary school in 1965.
'There may be a perception that sexual abuse only happened in boarding schools
or orphanages but it was in day schools too, and here in Drogheda.'
