Ireland's head of Amnesty International has described as 'deeply troubling', claims that alleged sex abusers could be expelled from a community as punishment for their offences.

Colm O'Gorman was speaking amid the ongoing controversy surrounding claims from a County Louth man last week that he was raped by an IRA member in the 1990's, and had to face a 'kangaroo court' in 2002.

Paudie McGahon says his alleged attacker was ultimately sent to England as a punishment.

Colm O'Gorman called for the appropriate authorities to be the ones who investigate claims of abuse, and hit out at the practice of sending alleged abusers into exile: