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PLUS FREE GIANT ROI POSTER MARCH 24, 2019 €3.00 SEE PAGE 33 FREE INSIDE Greatest wildlife TV series EVER SOUVENIR SPECIAL With DAVID ATTENBOROUGH I WAS ABUSEDSEE MAGAZINE BY MY UNCLE BISHOP CASEY ÷ Niece says she was raped as a child ÷ MoS investigation reveals that allegations by two more women have been settled A NIECE of the late Bishop Eamonn Casey claims she was raped and sexually abused by EXCLUSIVE him from the age of five for more than a decade. By Anne Sheridan The Irish Mail on Sunday can also reveal that two other allegations of Documents obtained by the MoS child sexual abuse by Bishop Casey reveal that Bishop Casey’s solicitors led to separate settlements – one in Dublin consented to a settlement through the Residential Institutions of compensation to one woman Redress Board – to women who ac- under the Redress Board, which cused him of abusing them as chil- dren in the 1950s and 1960s. Turn to Page 4 ➤➤ NIECE: Patricia Donovan ‘abused from age five’ BISHOP: Eamonn Casey accused of sexual abuse BISHOP CASEY: THE ABUSER The Irish Mail on Sunday MARCH 24 • 2019 MARCH 24 • 2019 The Irish Mail on Sunday CHARISMATIC: Bishop Casey at the youth mass in ➤➤ From Page One Galway during the Pope’s visit AN ILLICIT AFFAIR, has seen more than 16,000 alleged victims of in 1979 abuse compensated by the State under the €1.5bn scheme. A separate settlement was made after Bishop A SECRET SON, Casey’s death to a third woman who initiated High Court proceedings against him in 2016. Speaking for the first time, a niece of the famous cleric, Patricia Donovan, now 56, has documented her attempts to hold the Church ‘Abused LIES AND REDRESS to account and to prevent other children from potentially being abused. ‘It was rape, everything you imagine. It was the worst kind of abuse, it was horrific,’ she SETTLEMENTS told the MoS. Ms Donovan, who lives in England, brought her allegations to UK police in November 2005, 1967 Patricia Donovan claims alleging she was abused from the age of five she was sexually abused and raped for more than a decade. She claims this abuse by her uncle, Bishop Eamonn Casey, occurred across the three dioceses of Limerick, in this year when she was aged five, Kerry and Galway. after he was ordained for the Detectives in Limerick travelled to England Limerick Diocese in 1951. to take a statement from her in January 2006 but, by August of the same year, the Director from of Public Prosecutions directed that no charg- 1969 Appointed Bishop of Kerry, es be brought on 13 sample allegations. the alleged abuse continues in this A tranche of documentation seen by the MoS era, and into the start of his term as reveals the attempts made by Ms Donovan in Bishop of Galway in 1976. the intervening years to ensure that he did not have access to, or abuse, any other children. Files obtained by Ms Donovan in 2017, 1992 American divorcee Annie through a solicitor then acting on her behalf, Murphy reveals that he had fathered revealed that Bishop Casey himself disclosed her child, Peter – born in 1974 – to religious authorities in England that there during a time when Patricia alleges was another ‘historical case’ against him, which that her abuse was ongoing. At this was settled through the Redress Board. Under point, Patricia says she suffered a redress legislation, gardaí could not have been the age breakdown. made aware of these allegations. However, the name of the alleged victim is 1992 -1998 Bishop Casey is Affair: Lover forced into exile after the Annie Annie Murphy Murphy revelations and spends six with Peter, her ‘He was saddened but did not years in South America. son by Casey resist having to leave the diocese’ 1998 Bishop Casey is moved to leave England on the orders of the the Diocese of Arundel and Brighton Diocese of Arundel and Brighton, disclosed in the files. The same alleged injured in England, where he works as a directly as a result of Patricia’s party took High Court action against the bish- hospital chaplain. allegations. He returns to Galway, op in November 2004. But it is listed as being but is not allowed any public ‘struck out’ on court files in July 2005, after a of five’ ministry. settlement was agreed. 2001 A woman initiates High The note on the files reads: ‘She made a claim Court proceedings in June against through the Residential Institutions Redress Eamonn Casey for personal injuries. 2007 Patricia writes to the then Board and was awarded compensation.’ Bishop of Galway, Martin Drennan, This is the first time it has become public pictured, regarding her continuing knowledge that Bishop Casey is among those 2005 In July, the 2001 case is concerns in relation to safeguarding named to the Redress Board. The State is cur- ‘Restrictions had been placed on his ministry’ struck out after a settlement is made children and about Bishop Casey rently planning to seal all documents on alleged through the Residential infringing the restrictions child abuse in religious institutions dating back THE Limerick Diocese has confirmed to against Bishop Casey. Institutions Redress imposed upon him, to 1936 for a period of 75 years. the Irish Mail on Sunday that it is aware COMMENT: PAGE 23 ‘All allegations of abuse Board. including that he would not Testimony against Bishop Casey is contained of three complaints of child sexual reported to the Diocese are say Mass. in documents held by the State, comprising abuse by Bishop Eamonn Casey, which forwarded to the gardaí and part of the evidence obtained from some 1,400 relate to the 1950s and 1960s. initiated by Limerick Diocese ‘Restrictions had been placed Tusla... The Diocese fully 2005 Patricia contacts complainants, who engaged with the Commis- A spokesperson said these complaints with the complainant. on Bishop Casey’s priestly cooperates with the authorities Diocese of Arundel and 2010 Patricia is sion to Inquire into Child Abuse’s committee. were reported to the diocese in 2001, in ‘The diocese of Limerick has ministry by the Vatican in these matters. Brighton, giving details of informed that Bishop Casey At the time Ms Donovan made her complaint, 2005 and in 2014, which in turn notified not required and does not Congregation for Bishops. ‘Should you or a person you her alleged abuse to a is to preside over a Bishop Casey was working in England as a hos- An Garda Síochána and Church require any conditions to be These were still in place at the know have information relating child protection officer in christening of a relative but, pital chaplain, having spent six years in South authorities. ‘Of the two complaints part of any settlement,’ said a time of his death,’ said a to an allegation of abuse, we November. after she raises renewed America – when he was forced to flee Ireland raised with the diocese directly, one was spokesperson. spokesperson. urge you to encourage the concerns, this is stopped in 1992 after his affair with American divor- dealt with through the Redress Board The Galway diocese also A spokesperson for the Kerry person involved to report... to personally by Bishop Willie cee Annie Murphy became a public sensation, and a settlement was agreed in the confirmed that it is aware of Diocese, where Dr Casey was our Designated Liaison Person 2005 The same Walsh, in whose diocese the along with the revelation that he had fathered other. The third matter [which relates to one child sexual abuse Bishop from 1969 to 1976, did for safeguarding or to go month, Bishop Casey tells a priest christening is to occur. their son, Peter, born in 1974. his niece, Patricia Donovan] has not allegation against Bishop not disclose whether any directly to the Gardaí,’ said the tasked with investigating the Ms Donovan, then aged 12, maintains involved litigation but contact was Casey, made in 2005. allegations have been made spokesperson. allegation that his solicitors in that Bishop Casey’s abuse against her was HIGH LIFE: Bishop Eamonn Casey and former taoiseach Charles Haughey in Croke Park in 1979 Dublin handled a claim by another 2013 An investigation of the continuing at the time he was woman – the 2001 case – through the Galway diocese by the Church’s own having the affair. down after the complaint was brought to its attention between there wasn’t a less difficult path for against any named individual. at a baptism of a relative. She UK, the spokesperson added. to its attention in 2005 – the same Redress Board. child protection watchdog, the After she made her allegations to made. He was saddened but was 2001 and 2014. her to take,’ he said. ‘I am very sorry to learn that Pa- contacted several child protec- One case was dealt with through year it was notified of Ms Dono- National Board for Safeguarding UK authorities, they took prompt very compliant and did not resist After Mr Dalton came on record After bringing her allegations to tricia is still suffering. I hope she tion bodies and also the former the Redress Board, a settlement van’s case. A spokesperson said: Children, found that in the early action and Bishop Casey was sent having to leave the diocese.’ as the woman’s solicitor in this case, UK police and religious authorities, finds peace through forgiveness, as Bishop of Killaloe Willie Walsh was agreed in the other and, in ‘Restrictions had been placed on 2005 Patricia makes a complaint 1980s Bishop Casey did not deal back to the Galway Diocese, which Bishop Casey was forced to return he was contacted by Ms Donovan, they were brought to the attention she said is her wish.