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. Though I am as the Christening was due to be the third case – Ms Donovan’s Bishop Casey’s priestly ministry to British police. adequately with a credible abuse had ultimate responsibility for him to Galway in 2006. The Vatican had and they spent months working on of gardaí, the HSE, the dioceses now retired, I believe, as Pope Fran- held in his diocese. – litigation was not pursued. by the Vatican. These were still allegation against one of the priests as the last post he held was as Bish- imposed strict restrictions on his a possible legal action. of Limerick and Galway, and, ulti- cis said, the Church should reach Contacted by the MoS, Bishop The other two parties had both in place at the time of his death.’ in his diocese. op of Galway. ministry but – based on files from It was an action Ms Donovan ul- mately, to the Vatican, where a sep- out to help people find the healing Walsh, 84, who has also retired, initiated High Court action. The Kerry Diocese, where Ca- 2006 Limerick detectives Canon Kieron O’Brien – who was the Galway Diocese seen by the timately chose not to pursue. Mr arate investigation commenced. and peace that they deserve, rather said: ‘I advised Eamonn that he sey served as bishop for seven attached to Henry Street Garda the main child protection officer of MoS – he breached these restric- Dalton told the MoS: ‘Patricia spent Ms Donovan also wrote person- than waiting for them to come for- should not do the Baptism.’ years from 1969 to 1976, was the station travel to the UK to take a 2016 A third woman initiates the Diocese of Arundel and Bright- tions on numerous occasions. several months consulting with me ally to the then-Bishop of Galway, ward,’ he said. In response to numerous ques- only diocese of the three contact- statement from Patricia in January. High Court proceedings against on at the time – said he had approxi- In 2016, Limerick-based solici- and I was very impressed with her Martin Drennan, after the Galway Ms Donovan also contacted a UK- tions from the MoS, a spokesper- ‘Bishop Casey was ed that would not comment on Bishop Casey for personal injury mately three conversations with tor Tommy Dalton came on record courage and perseverance. diocese initially agreed to fund 12 based group for abuse survivors, son for the Diocese of Limerick any allegations it has received in damages. Bishop Casey about the allegations. for one woman who took her case ‘Court action can be quite adver- sessions of counselling for her and Macsas, (Minister & Clergy Sexual confirmed that it is aware of certainly on our radar’ relation to Bishop Casey. 2006 Bishop Casey is He also met with Ms Donovan as against Bishop Casey to the High sarial and can take up to five years her two children and to pay for her Abuse Survivors), founded by Wick- three complaints of child sexual ‘The Diocese of Kerry does not interviewed by gardaí in July. part of his investigation. Court, bringing to three the number in some cases. It was extremely to go on two healing retreats. The low native Dr Margaret Kennedy. abuse by Bishop Casey, which discuss or disclose individual 2017 Bishop Casey dies on Canon O’Brien told the MoS: ‘I am of allegations currently confirmed. disappointing, even heart-breaking, funding ceased in 2007. Dr Kennedy told the MoS: ‘I was relate to the 1950s and 1960s. ‘The Diocese of Limerick has cases of abuse. All allegations March 13, aged 89. confident that we followed all cor- However, in the midst of proceed- to speak to such a good, decent per- Bishop Drennan, now 75, who re- aware of a number of allegations The spokesperson said they for- not required and does not re- of abuse reported to the diocese 2006 In August, the DPP directs rect procedures at the time. Fr Ca- ings, Bishop Casey died on March son who wished to address issues, tired three years ago, said: ‘I can made by several women against warded all the cases to An Garda quire any conditions to be part are forwarded to the gardaí and that no charges be brought, sey [he was known as Father in the 13, 2017, and the case was struck which could only be dealt with in an confirm that I was in correspond- Bishop Casey. He was certainly on Síochána and alerted Church au- of any settlement,’ said a spokes- Tusla,’ said a spokesperson. reportedly on 13 sample allegations. 2017 In December, the 2016 case UK] did not have ministry in Eng- out. The Limerick Diocese has adversarial forum. ence with Patricia for a period of our radar.’ thorities. Two of the cases were person. The Diocese of Galway The MoS has not received is settled posthumously and land, but worked mainly as a hos- confirmed that a settlement was ‘All options available to her led to time. I heard her plea of suffering In 2010, Ms Donovan raised brought directly to the diocese’s confirmed to the MoS that it is a response from the Vatican compensation is paid before it is pital chaplain, where he was doing paid to this woman, among three conflict, rather than reconciliation and alleged abuse but I was not in concerns when she learned that attention and it was made aware aware of one allegation of child regarding the complaints against 2006 Bishop Casey is forced to officially struck out. good work. He had to be stepped complaints of child sexual abuse and resolution. I was frustrated that a position to verify any allegations Bishop Casey was due to officiate of the third via a diocese in the sexual abuse, which was brought Bishop Casey.  BISHOP CASEY: THE ABUSER The Irish Mail on Sunday MARCH 24 • 2019 MARCH 24 • 2019 The Irish Mail on Sunday  He was like a Pied Piper

HEN Patricia Donovan returned home from Eng- fine wines, good cigars and fast cars land for her mother’s funeral hid a much darker persona, Patricia she didn’t imagine she would feels. see the man she accused of Patricia Donovan ‘He did everything in our family. W raping her as a child seated He managed to abuse people on the altar. through his charisma. There were But there he was – Bishop Eamonn Casey, her two distinct sides to him – one was uncle – in clerical garb, officiating at the funeral charismatic and the other was abso- of her mother in Limerick, in February 2007 in says her uncle lutely violent. But I was not a human Monaleen Church, Castletroy. being to him when he was in his Only two years previously, Patricia, then 43, monster place.’ had brought her allegations of sexual abuse and The abuse continued for more rape from the age of five against Bishop Casey Eamonn Casey than a decade, but eventually Patri- to police in England, and later to gardaí. cia married and moved to England. After years in exile in South America follow- She worked in administration ini- ing the Annie Murphy revelations, Bishop tially, and later, as a book-keeper. Casey was forced to flee again. Ten years after she made her alle- This time, it was on the direct orders of the sexually abused her gations to gardaí, Patricia found Diocese of Arundel and Brighton in England, on someone who could help her. foot of Patricia’s allegations. In April 2016, the Limerick Leader Openly, the Church made statements that he newspaper reported that a woman was welcome home – to Shanaglish, a small vil- was taking High Court proceedings lage on the Clare and Galway border – back to for over a decade. against Bishop Casey for personal the county where he once presided as bishop. damages. But Bishop Casey was placed under several Patricia saw this report, and con- restrictions – that he would not have any public tacted solicitor Tommy Dalton, who ministry, that he would not say Mass, that he was on record on that case, to see if should not wear any clerical clothing, and that Speaking for the he could help her to also pursue a he could not give any media interviews. case. But in the end, she decided she The voice of one of the most iconic Irish fig- could not proceed with legal action. ures in the Catholic Church was silenced. ‘Because I have such high levels But Patricia’s was not. first time, she says of anxiety and because of the money, And yet, Bishop Casey would go on to flout I wasn’t able to go through with it. I these restrictions – imposed on him by the Vati- couldn’t afford to go to Limerick. I can – time and time again. didn’t have the means or support. After the funeral, Patricia told the Irish Mail on Sunday that he intimidated her at a family ‘he saw something meal, poked her and said: “Are you not going to talk to me?” ‘He would say while ‘I felt incredibly threatened. He was playing to the audience and had the attention of the abusing me, “I can’t get whole room. I was ostracised. Some people beautiful in me he wouldn’t even shake hands with me at the ‘DUAL PERSONA’ removal,’ she revealed. Bishop Eamonn Casey outside the evil out of her”’ Now, 14 years after she first brought her alle- his family home in Firies near gations to the attention of the authorities, Patri- Killarney in 1974 with his car, And I couldn’t sit in a room with a wanted to destroy’ known locally as ‘The Flyer’, a cia has spoken out for the first time. dog-collar and be examined. I just In a hotel outside London, the 56-year-old Lim- speaking out: Patricia Donovan at her home Toyota Corolla KE25 coupé wouldn’t be able for it,’ she erick native, who left Ireland in 1987, spoke explained. Nonetheless, Mr Dalton exclusively to this newspaper about retrieved all the files held by three the abuse she alleges she suffered. sioned letter to Bishop Drennan, involved, that they took some me, doing a dance around me and was aged 12 at that time. By the fathered a child with Ms Murphy, dioceses – two in Ireland and one in The abuse began at the age of five and poured nearly every part of the action. trying to manage me.’ time the story broke, Patricia was a an American divorcee and a distant England – relating to her case. in 1967 when she alleges she was EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW BY abuse she alleges she suffered at ‘Why wasn’t action taken before In 1992, the year the Annie Mur- mother of two young children, and cousin of his, other allegations of The level of redactions, she feels, raped, and continued for more than the hands of her uncle into those six me, when another woman made a phy revelations broke, rocking the today, she marvels at how she abuse against him were an ‘open is equally telling in terms of the dis- a decade in Limerick, Kerry and pages. complaint? The Church continued Church and shocking a nation, away managed to survive at all. secret’ among some members of parity in transparency between the Galway, including during his reign ‘Dear Bishop Drennan, You do not to put children at risk and enabled from the headlines Patricia’s silent All the while, Bishop Church hierarchy, the MoS has Church here and in England. as Bishop of Kerry and Bishop of ANNE SHERIDAN know me, so I will introduce myself people to be abusers by doing noth- suffering began to lose ground. Casey’s permeating established. ‘The Diocese of Arundel and Galway. first,’ she began. ing. The amount of people who could Inwardly, she felt as if she had presence maintained One senior figure told this news- Brighton was very open – they Bishop Casey was aged 35 when ‘My name is Patricia. I am Eamonn have been at risk from when I been screaming for much of her a stronghold over her paper: ‘There was a view that after didn’t black out anything. But about Patricia was born into a family of Casey’s niece. I am writing to you as reported it is staggering.’ life. When she saw the newspaper life and that of her the Annie Murphy scandal, that 70% of information from Galway four other siblings in Co. Limerick. ‘It was as if he was in a trance, as Cathedral as curate. It was towards Abuse. ‘All I was thinking about I feel it is important that you know Correspondence seen by this front pages, it was only years wider family. maybe the Church had been too and Limerick dioceses is blacked His sister Josephine was Patricia’s if he was trying to purge himself. I the end of November 2005 that when I reported it to gardaí was more about my story, as Eamonn is newspaper, dating back to 2005, later that she could finally piece It was Bishop Casey hard on Bishop Casey and some out,’ she said. mother. only now know that he wasn’t trying Patricia had reported him to Eng- protecting children. I wasn’t think- in your diocese and you are respon- details the lengths she has gone to together why it had such a pro- who, years later, called contended that perhaps he should As a way to cope with and express The abuse, she alleges, began just to get any evil out of me but out of lish authorities. ing of the consequences for myself sible for him. be heard – and for someone to take found effect on her, and her in 2003 and, after have been allowed to return to some the abuse, Patricia began self-harm- two years before he was appointed himself. But, of course, I didn’t rec- Gardaí attached to the Henry at all; if I was, I don’t know if I would ‘I feel very vulnerable having serious action against the trusted why it led to her break- she broke down on form of limited ministry. And he ing at an early age. She has experi- Bishop of Kerry in 1969. ognise that as a child. Street branch in Limerick, travelled have done it,’ she continued. written this to you, as I don’t know figure she claims abused her. down at that time. the phone, she said may have been, were it not for these enced suicide ideation at times. It ‘I think he saw something beauti- ‘Looking back, in a way, he was to the UK to interview her over the ‘I was terrified that the Church you, but I know it is important for She has reported her allegations to After countless he sent a cheque other allegations.’ has also tested her faith. ful in me that he just wanted to typical of an abuser. He was abso- course of seven hours on January 2, wasn’t trying to stop Eamonn abus- me to do this so I can try and put police in England, to gardaí, to child hours of counsel- for £4,000 for her Another senior source said: ‘Casey ‘The duality of the abuse is that destroy,’ she said. 2006. By August, they contacted her ing. I was very naive, and very this behind me and move on with protection officers in England and ling, she said she to go to a treat- was really a Jekyll and Hyde char- the person who abused me was a ‘He was quite organised and selec- to say the Director of Public Prose- much on my own. It was a stab in my life.’ Ireland, to support groups for vic- could finally face ment centre. acter. It was impossible to get a member of the Church and I also tive and I think he saw that I was cutions wasn’t taking the case for- the dark, trusting that people would Her plea for further funding for tims of clerical abuse, to bishops what she claims But it was straight answer out of him when the got huge comfort from the Church. vulnerable and quite sensitive. It ‘Some people wouldn’t ward. do the right thing.’ counselling was heard, but Bishop and to diocesan officers. her uncle did also Bishop allegations were put to him. He I have tried to make sense of that was rape, everything you imagine. By this point, both Patricia and Initially, she believed that the Drennan replied to her and to the And yet, she said: ‘I feel as if the to her. Casey, she either claimed that he couldn’t and, in a way, square it away, but I It was the worst kind of abuse; it shake hands with me at gardaí investigating her case were Church was going to help her. English authorities saying they did Church always maintained I was ‘While he claims, who remember or that he didn’t know can’t.’ was horrific.’ unaware that Bishop Casey’s solici- The Galway Diocese, following not have the resources to provide lying. The Church has only caused was having had sent her the person who made the com- Explaining her reasons for speak- ‘I stopped being able long ago to tors in Dublin had agreed a settle- correspondence with the then- long-term funding for therapy. me more abuse, in pretending to an affair with on this down- plaint.’ ing out now, she said: ‘I’m doing this find any words in the English lan- my mother’s removal’ ment of compensation to another bishop Martin Drennan, through the Apart from some modest financial hear me – and the hearing they gave Annie Murphy he ward spiral, Much of Casey’s family – and because this has been my whole life. guage to describe what happened to woman under the Residential Insti- Diocese of Arundel and Brighton, assistance for counselling, Patricia me was abysmal. was continuing to with her allega- indeed much of Ireland – refused to I wouldn’t do it if I had any other me. It was one horrific thing after lutely revered as a God in the fam- tutions Redress Board. initially agreed to pay for two heal- said that what she was mostly try- ‘There are so many people who abuse me,’ she tions causing a accept a different version of the option. It has been a nightmare of a another,’ she said. ily. He was benevolent, he had loads The solicitor in that case has ing retreats for Patricia. ing to achieve was accountability. don’t believe me and some who do said. rift in the fam- beloved bishop, whose charm and life. My hope by doing this is to The exact details, nature and of money, he was generous, always declined to comment. Later, the Galway Diocese agreed ‘I have tried every possible way to and know I am telling the truth. Bishop Casey’s ily, with some personality cast a spell over a huge finally be heard in some credible extent of the alleged abuse are giving sweets to kids and with adults Nor could gardaí have been made to fund at least 12 sessions of coun- get someone to take responsibility,’ ‘But this is not about being believed son, Peter, was born r e f u s i n g t o swathe of a then-Catholic nation. way and to get some psychological known to this newspaper but Patri- queuing to kiss his ring. He was like aware if there were testimonies selling for her and her children, and she said. ‘If he [Bishop Casey] any more. This is about how the in 1974. Patricia believe he could He was a raconteur, a bon vivant, relief. cia has asked us not to reveal them. a Pied Piper.’ provided by other women against review further payments for coun- wasn’t in Arundel and Brighton at Church treated me and treated oth- be capable of a larger-than-life personality, who ‘If doing this now makes any dif- ‘He would frequently say out loud Brought up in Adare, Co. Limer- Bishop Casey, such were the legally selling thereafter. the time I made my complaint, I ers. I naively believed for a time ‘monster’: such acts. was known for his work with the ference, if it can help anyone, maybe that God was instructing him to do ick, Casey was ordained a priest for binding restrictions imposed on But after Easter in 2007, the fund- don’t think I would have got a hear- that they did care about me; that Bishop Casey In fact, aside poor, the homeless and outspoken all this, this struggle, my life might this and he would say while abusing the Diocese of Limerick in 1951, and those who gave evidence to the ing was stopped. ing at all. It seemed as if it was only they were trying to help me. But accused of ‘worst from the revela- views on social injustice. just have been worth something.’ me, “I can’t get the evil out of her.” for many years served at St John’s Commission to Inquire into Child A month later, she wrote an impas- because an outside diocese was they were just paying lip-service to kind of abuse’ tions that he His well-documented fondness for [email protected]  BISHOP CASEY: THE ABUSER The Irish Mail on Sunday MARCH 24 • 2019 MARCH 24 • 2019 The Irish Mail on Sunday 

oN The ruN Bishop Eamonn Casey fled the country in 1992 1 when news broke of his affair with Annie Murphy – Survivors say bill with whom he had fathered a child. The disgraced bishop first hid out in a US monastery before heading to Mexico to learn Spanish. He to seal child sex is pictured in Cuernavaca in 1993. He then worked as a WHY CASEY missionary priest in Ecuador for six years. In 1998, the Irish hierarchy was still not ready abuse documents to allow him to return home, so he moved to England. for 75 years is REALLY CAME ‘another cover-up’ DETAILS of alleged abuse by Bishop Eamonn Casey are among those CAMPAIGN included in State documents, which could be sealed for 75 years under proposed new legislation. DON’T HIDE Abuse survivors and representative THE TRUTH groups have described this action by the Government as further evidence of a ‘cover-up’ and are calling for a By Anne Sheridan debate and also for survivors to be individually consulted. have requested that, when they die, Under the Retention of Records Bill their documents be released because 2019, set to go before the Dáil this they can’t tell their families – but yet BACKAcross three dioceses – two in Ireland, one in the UK – IN 2006 week, records from the Commission they want their families to know what Patricia Donovan sought assistance to ensure her allegations to Inquire into Child Abuse, the it was like for them. In 75 years only were dealt with appropriately by Church authorities. In Residential Institutions Redress our great great grandchildren will be recent years she sought access to records that detail her Files reveal redress payment Board and the Residential Institutions alive and it will mean nothing to them. battle to have her allegations taken seriously. Here we reveal Redress Review Committee, would be Ian Elliott, safeguarding consultant LIMERICK DIOCESE sealed in the national archives until and first chief executive of the key documents that show the gripping timeline of a woman ARUNDEL & BRIGHTON DIOCESE 2094. National Board for Safeguarding doing her best to ensure child protection standards were They would also be exempt from the Children in the Catholic Church in upheld as Casey’s public ministry was restricted. The Freedom of Information Act for three Ireland, told the MoS: ‘Who is [sealing documents also reveal a shocking secret – Bishop Casey’s quarters of a century. the documents] designed to protect? settlement with the Residential Institutions Redress Board. The move has been heavily There are two key words here – criticised by survivors’ groups – and integrity and accountability. I would even the minister who introduced the not be in favour of sealing the told Fr Kieron O’Brien, the main bill four years ago now believes the documents. Whether it’s one year or ALLEGATIONS OF diocesan child protection officer, time period could be reduced. five years, or 75 years, I am against SEXUAL ABUSE that his solicitors in Dublin dealt Both An Taoiseach Leo Varadkar it,’ said Mr Elliott. with another ‘historical case’. While and Education Minister Joe McHugh Anne Marie Crean, the co-founder of In November 2005, a niece of Bishop survivors of institutional abuse can- have defended the decision to seal the Reclaiming Self, a voluntary group of Casey, Patricia Donovan, meets not reveal details of any settlements records of testimonies relating to psychologists, solicitors and with police in Britain and gives a under the Redress Board, or the child abuse. advocates, said: ‘If you are locking statement against him, outlining alleged perpetrators, Bishop Casey Mr McHugh said that, rather than files away, how are we supposed to alleged sexual abuse and rape from himself makes this disclosure. The “EC has informed Fr KOB that there was another historical case dealt with by his solicitors in destroy the records under the rules learn from what has happened? How the age of five. She alleges that the name of the alleged victim under Dublin. Name of alleged victim was [XXXXX XXXXXX]. She made a claim through the relating to redress bodies, the are we going to move forward in abuse continued for more than a the redress scheme is disclosed in Residential Institutions Redress Board and was awarded compensation.” Government’s preference is to seal terms of accountability and decade across the three dioceses of the documents. The file reads: ‘She them for 75 years – by which time protecting children? Limerick, Kerry and Galway, and made a claim through the Residen- In 2017, Limerick-based solicitor Donovan and Bishop Casey were Crucially, three sentences in a key those referenced in the reports would ‘Closing the records goes against the that it occurred during his time both tial Institutions Redress Board and Tommy Dalton receives a tranche of released to her. Some of those document, revealing Bishop Casey’s be dead. principles of the acknowledgement as Bishop of Kerry and Bishop of was awarded compensation.’ files from the dioceses of Limerick, released by the Galway and Limerick settlement under the Redress Board, Abuse survivor Carmel McDonnell- and apology that survivors received. Galway. This document, subsequently con- Galway, and Arundel and Brighton, dioceses, are heavily redacted. By were entirely redacted by the Byrne, who was in Dublin’s ‘Unless they adequately consult with She also informs the Diocese of firmed by Limerick Diocese, allows on behalf of his client Patricia contrast, the case files on Ms Limerick diocese – but not by the Goldenbridge orphanage as a child, all survivors, or their families if they Arundel and Brighton, where Casey the MoS to reveal for the first time Donovan with a view to potentially Donovan and Bishop Casey released British diocese. believes survivors’ individual wishes have passed away, then it raises lived at that time. The child protec- – as the State plans to seal the child taking a case. by the English Diocese of Arundel * [Red redaction marks are Irish Mail should be respected. She added that questions as to why they would be tion officer of the diocese starts an abuse records for 75 years – that Not all files relating to Ms and Brighton had no redactions. on Sunday legal redactions] leAVING bAck IN IrelANd this action by the State is an attempt doing that.’ investigation and informs Bishop Bishop Casey is among those named eNGlANd By February 9, 2006, he was back on to ‘hide the past’. Labour deputy Jan O’Sullivan, who Casey, who is immediately sus- to the board. 2 Bags packed at his then home 3 his old stomping ground. Here at Ms McDonnell-Byrne co-founded was education minister when this pended from active ministry, as per The document also appears to con- arranging for him to return to Ire- ary 2006, the then-Bishop of Gal- regarding further financial assist- in Sussex, England, Bishop Casey was Shanaglish in rural south Co. Galway, he the Aislinn Centre in 1999 – alongside legislation was introduced in 2015, the diocesan guidelines. A released firm, using shorthand, that Bishop land. The officer writes: ‘While way, Martin Drennan, is notified of ance for counselling. ready to leave Britain. He had posed for photographs and looked very the now deceased campaigner told the MoS that she would like the document dated November 3, of Arundel and Brighton, Kieran under the supervision of this dio- the allegations by the Diocese of That series of sessions takes place moved to the diocese of Arundel and relaxed. He would go on to officiate at his Christine Buckley – to help survivors records to be sealed for a shorter details this action: ‘EC [Eamonn Conry, is in the loop. cese, Fr Casey has agreed not to Arundel and Brighton. over the autumn/winter and ends in Brighton in 1998. Here, on February 4, sister’s funeral, Patricia Donovan’s mother of institutional abuse. period. She also believes there should Casey] immediately made aware of have contact with children and Bishop Casey is interviewed in March 2007. Documents show that 2006, he is returning to Ireland Josephine in February 2007 ‘We don’t know the scale of abuse be a public debate on the matter. allegation [by Patricia Donovan]. young people, and this includes hav- July, and, by August 2006, the DPP Galway also provides funding for that is contained in all those reports ‘I would welcome if that length of Asked to step down from all pasto- SENT HOME TO ing holidays with his family. He has directs that no charges be brought two healing retreats in January and and isn’t it so convenient to hide it all time could be shortened,’ Mrs ral work, while remaining for the a letter from Fr Kieron in this on 13 sample allegations. at Easter, which was in April sion to concelebrate at Mass or The next three lines in relation away? I think all names should be O’Sullivan said. The understanding time being, at his house in Staple- GALWAY respect.’ A document released by the Lim- that year. RESTRICTIONS ON to say a public Mass. What I do to those events are redacted. In published. If they are put away, it’s given to people who provided field. He asked for a name – no In late 2005, the Diocese of Arundel The officer expresses concerns erick Diocese reveals that the alle- No further counselling funding is PUBLIC MINISTRY know is that he has not cele- May 2010, Arundel and Bright- another secret. It’s the secrets and testimonies was that this information given.’ and Brighton initiates the removal that, over the Christmas period, Fr gations have been brought to the approved. brated any public Mass in this on’s safeguarding officer Fr lies that have governed this information would not become of Bishop Casey – or Fr Casey as he Casey returned home to Limerick, attention of the Vatican, where In a six-page letter to Bishop Dren- The documents show a number diocese since his return from O’Brien receives a letter from country for so long. public in their lifetimes, is known in England – from the dio- told his family he was ‘on holiday’, another separate internal investiga- nan in May 2007, Ms Donovan of times where Casey ‘had not England, nor has he concele- Patricia detailing her ongoing ‘There were no discussions which was why 75 years REDRESS BOARD cese, directly as a result of Ms and was in a house that ‘has lots of tion commences. It also confirms makes a direct appeal for funding. honoured out-of-ministry rules’ brated at Mass.’ concerns. on this – survivors weren’t was set. Donovan’s allegations. children coming and going as part that the HSE was told of the allega- She is also distressed that Bishop between 2007 and 2010. Later in 2007, Bishop Drennan A letter from the diocesan asked in and asked, “What ‘Certainly I think we need SETTLEMENT The documents show a clear log of of the extended family’. The docu- tions in November 2005. Casey – after the DPP’s decision not These are mainly family writes to the English diocese on office in Galway, dated June would you like?” a public debate now on The investigation by the Diocese of the steps taken by the diocese fol- ments adds that if Fr Casey is in to prosecute – is not abiding by the events, at which he officiates foot of Ms Donovan’s concerns 2010, further confirms there are ‘If survivors say, whether it should be Arundel and Brighton begins with a lowing these allegations. Ireland, he is ‘the responsibility of ongoing restrictions on public min- without any official right to do that Bishop Casey is breaching ‘infringes of regulations’ “Destroy the modified – it is meeting between Patricia and dio- In January 2006, a child protection the bishop in whose diocese he is FUNDING FOR istry. so. He officiates at: the funeral restrictions by saying Mass and imposed on Bishop Casey. documents”, that’s understandable that cesean child protection officers. officer in the English diocese writes living to ensure he is monitored’. COUNSELLING She thanks Bishop Drennan for of Patricia’s mother, Josephine wearing clerical garb. One letter to Ms Donovan their choice. But let people want the records Documents dated November 9, directly to then-Bishop Conry, Bishop Casey returns to Galway in providing funding for her to go on Donovan, who was his sister, in In relation to the funeral of Ms reads: ‘Bishop Drennan wrote to it be an honest out there. These are show the seriousness with which expressing concerns that Bishop February 2006. He is restricted In September 2006, Bishop Drennan two healing retreats and outlines February 2007; the funeral of Donovan’s mother that year, and spoke with Bishop Eamonn choice – not a people’s lives and the allegations are taken, and the Casey continues to be in a position from public ministry. writes to the Diocese of Arundel the alleged abuse she suffered at her father in January 2009 and Bishop Drennan writes: ‘She Casey, who apologised and cover-up.’ consulting them is immediate restrictions placed on where he has access to children. and Brighton confirming that the Bishop Casey’s hands – as well as her cousin’s funeral in April [Patricia] was clearly very upset stated it would not happen again. ‘Some probably the best Bishop Casey’s public ministry. The child protection officer notes Galway Diocese is willing to pay for her continuing concerns for the 2010. by what happened at her moth- Bishop Casey lives here in the survivors we option… but you Despite not previously being told that Fr Casey is ‘placed on adminis- POLICE an ‘initial assessment’, and would safety of children. He also concelebrates the er’s funeral. Despite efforts, I diocese but has not public min- have dealt with have to respect the who was making the allegations, trative leave arranged by this dio- INVESTIGATIONS pay for the first 12 counselling ses- In response, days later, Bishop Chrism Mass on Holy Thursday have not been able to get a istry.’ survivors who may Bishop Casey reveals he has found cese pending the police investigation sions for Patricia Donovan if the Drennan writes separately to Ms in Galway Cathedral, again in proper account of what hap- This week, the Galway diocese name and not want their out from a priest – a child protec- which is currently underway’. In January 2006, detectives from UK could not. Bishop Drennan says Donovan and to the English diocese April 2010. pened on that occasion. The confirmed that the restrictions shame: records out and who tion officer, according to documents The document confirms that he Limerick travel to the UK to take a he will review the payment for giving his dioceses’s ‘limited In Bishop Drennan’s letter to funeral was in Limerick diocese on his ministry were imposed Carmel expected they – in Ireland. More crucially, the has moved to live with a priest in statement from Ms Donovan over counselling after these sessions are resources’ as the reason it cannot Ms Donovan in May 2007, he and therefore outside of my by the Vatican, and remained McDonnell-Byrne wouldn’t be,’ she said. documents show that Bishop Casey Eastbourne, and that Fr O’Brien is the course of seven hours. In Febru- completed and then make a decision continue to fund therapy. writes: ‘Eamonn has no permis- control.’ until his death in 2017. THE CLEANING SENSATION SWEEPING THE NATION!

ROI MARCH 31, 2019 €3.00 FREE INSIDE Mrs Hinch’s guide to making spring 8-PAGE cleaning fun BISHOPSPECIAL CASEYSEE MAGAZINE ACCUSED BY FOUR WOMEN Details of victim’s Peter Casey Magdalene ‘hell’ Mystery illness in planning revealed on tape EXCLUSIVE forces Jagger row... after he By Anne Sheridan builds a wall! FOUR separate people have now EX-PRESIDENTIAL candidate made allegations of child sexual abuse to cancel his Peter Casey is in a dispute over against the late Bishop Eamonn Casey, a sea wall at his Donegal home. the Irish Mail on Sunday can confirm. The council says he has no right The MoS can also reveal that the woman to build it – but he says that who made the redress settlement with $250m US tour Lough Foyle is UK jurisdiction. Bishop Casey is dead – and spoke out about PAGE 8 FULL STORY See Pages 8-9 Turn to Page 4 ➤➤  BISHOP CASEY: THE ABUSER The Irish Mail on Sunday MARCH 31 • 2019 MARCH 31 • 2019 The Irish Mail on Sunday  A nun fell on the flo or screaming... The baby came out... We knew it was a priest

As reveAled last week, Bishop eamonn Casey made a settlement with a woman under the residential redress scheme for alleged sexual abuse. This week the Irish Mail on sunday can reveal a two-hour oral testimony from the woman, given in 2013. The official documents from an oral history Woman’s petition ‘I don’t know what my project for the Justice for Magadalene research group, confirms the woman, then 72, has since died. The woman – who we have chosen not A PETITION to stop child abuse to name as we have been unable to contact her family – told researchers records being sealed for 75 years father may have done’ about her life in a number of institutions in the late Fifties and early sixties. has been started by a woman to stop child abuse In 2013, she was precluded by statute – under the residential Institutions whose three relatives spent THE son of the late Bishop 1992 that he was Casey’s son redress Act 2002 – from giving details of her redress settlement or naming years in the Magdalene Eamonn Casey has said he did shocked the nation, after it her abuser. At the age of 23, she escaped the Magdalene laundries after Laundries with devastating not know his father well enough emerged the then-Bishop of Kerry eight years. But the abuse she suffered never left her, and her harrowing consequences. records being to comment on any allegations of had an affair with Annie Murphy, testimony reveals priests with evil intentions and a nun giving birth. Laura Angela Collins, from sexual abuse against him. an American divorcee and a London, has been compelled to Speaking to the MoS, Peter distant cousin of his in the 1970s. try to stop the Retention of Murphy was informed by this For the last six years of his life, Records Bill – approved by sealed for 75 years newspaper of the allegations by a Bishop Casey lived in a nursing SPECIAL INVESTIGATION BY Cabinet but which has yet to pass number of women. home in Co. Clare until his death, through the Dáil – as her mother has spent decades fighting to ‘She should feel vindicated and ‘I wouldn’t be able to comment aged 89, in March 2017. His son Mary Teresa Collins spent years ensure survivors’ voices are not I hope it is now acknowledged on that. What limited time I spent met him intermittently, and ANNE SHERIDAN in a Magdalene Laundry in Cork. further silenced after being that what she said happened, did with my father was maybe meals previously said they ended on Laura’s grandmother, Angelina, ‘gagged’ by the Residential happen and that should be three times a year, so I canplus not good terms. died aged 57, and was buried in a Institutions Redress Board when acknowledged by the Church. provide any insight. Wefree just giant hung The first time they met, before poster IN August 1955 a teenage girl was she said. ‘That was a life for me that mass grave in the Peacock Lane they accepted compensatory She should be supported in every out and talked. I don’t havesee page 33 any the revelations emerged in the picked up by five nuns from an I should never have had. I never did site at St Finbarr’s Cemetery in payments. way from the Church. It is a opinion as to what he might have media in 1992, he said his father orphanage in the west of Ireland wrong to anybody. I was an inno- the county. ‘I started the petition to show tragedy that she is not receiving donef rbeforeee inin hissi life,’de said Mr was ‘just like a stone wall’. and placed in the back of a van. cent little girl. If someone came to To further compound the the Government that this is not help and support. The Church Murphy,grea 44,test who wildlife lives in Boston. ‘I just freaked and ran out of the She was transported to Limerick the gate for me, I would be gone. family’s sadness, her aunt died what survivors and the public should be supporting those they es eVer BorntV in se 1974,ri thespeci alrevelation in room,’ he said. by the Good Shepherd Sisters. It But no one ever came for me. I just by suicide one Christmas Day want. The effects the laundry have hurt,’ said Mr Elliott. souvenir h DaviDattenborough t ine i aZ W ee Mag was at this juncture in history that had to wait.’ after she was released from a had on my mum have never He continued: ‘Casey’s s her life would change forever. The woman revealed her life story Magdalene Laundry, where she gone away. reputation is in tatters. I don’t the perpetrators. But she did reveal One by one, she and her siblings to an oral project for the group Jus- was confined from the age of ‘The large Irish community of BUSED that she and the other women feared had been placed into the hands of tice for Magdalenes Research in 14 to 27. survivors in England feel very I WAS A rape from the priests, and spoke of nuns by her parents, who lived in 2013. She has since died. She said her mother Mary cut off and distanced from this CAMPAIGN CLE how she witnessed a nun giving poverty. But life in the west of The woman’s name and the major- Teresa, 58, from Cobh, Co. Cork, and, again, their voices are not BY MY UN birth in the religious compound. Ireland was virtually idyllic in ity of her biographical details are being heard. The abuse for them DON’T HIDE ‘Oh, that convent, they slaved us, comparison to what she would being protected by this newspaper. has never stopped, and this is HOP CASEY gave us no education. We were like endure in Limerick. In her young life, she was con- another cover-up,’ she told the THE TRUTH BIS animals to them. They had no ÷ e says she was There was a time when she bliss- fined to a number of different laun- Irish Mail on Sunday. Niec ÷ respect for us. Just bring it out, let ped as a child MoS ra that fully recalled seeing planes flying dries around the country, before In a statement to the MoS, the think anyone could believe that investigation reveals the public see for their own two gations by two more alle settled overhead, out across the Atlantic, she eventually managed to escape Archdiocese of Dublin, said it he has not done what he has been women have been eyes, how badly we were treated. If of the late Bishop A NIECE s she w as XCLUSIVE Eamonn Casey claim E and dreamed that one day she might at the age of 23. would ‘support the matter being accused of. I hope that this Bill raped and sexually abusedof five byfor Sheridan they had their own way the priests age him from the By Anne y t he MoS more than a decade. ay can also ts obtained b ish Mail on Sund Documen ’s solicitors The Ir ations of hat Bishop Casey ght that two other alleg reveal t ettlement ri reveal ishop Casey lin consented to a s y exual abuse by B in Dub e woman p l abuse Aged 15, she was brought debated further’. will not pass.’ child s ts – one ensation t o on accused of sexua and all would rape us, but the nuns settlemen Co asey to separate s of comp s Board, which isHoP: eamonn C led ential Institution der the Redres ge five’ B rough the Resid - un n ‘abused from a th o women who ac : Patricia donova ress Board – t - ge 4 ➤➤ nieCe Red ing them as chil Turn to Pa sed him of abus cu and 1960s. to St Mary’s, on the sprawl- Ian Elliott, safeguarding Solicitor Tommy Dalton, of dren in the 1950s were there. ing Good Shepherd consultant and first chief Crowley Millar in Limerick, who ‘One day a nun fell on the floor ‘That was a life I never grounds at the junction executive of the National Board consulted with Ms Donovan and and she was screaming. The next of Clare Street and the for Safeguarding Children in acted on behalf of another the floor, kicked into the stomach, thing the baby came. We knew the should have had’ Pennywell Road in the Catholic Church in Ireland, woman who took High Court everywhere. priest must have done that. Of Limerick city. said he is opposed to the Bill. proceedings against Bishop ‘After that, I didn’t know what it course, she couldn’t be left back to It was situated a Mr Elliott praised the Casey, said this week: ‘Questions was to be kind. You got so immune the convent again. They must have become an air hostess. But it was a stone’s throw from St bravery of Patricia Donovan, a are now being posed for the to the beatings. We got beaten with adopted the child, because she was dream that never came to pass. John’s Cathedral, niece of Bishop Eamonn Casey, Church that need to be answered. the sweeping brush until the brush put out of the convent. They proba- She remembered ‘the lovely smell where Fr Eamonn who in the MoS last week ‘I am satisfied that in at least Holding got broken, and they would still beat bly took her baby and sent her to of laundry’ whilst climbing trees Casey was installed as revealed for the first time that two instances there was Court: Bishop you with the broken pieces. I America. She was treated like dirt, and playing outside in the sunshine curate that same year. she accused him of rape and suffering and, in those two Eamonn Casey thought I was going to die there.’ and that’s why I don’t trust priests near the convent on the west coast. The site and buildings child sexual abuse for more than instances, they had to prove at the Trócaire But the abuse she suffered went or nuns now.’ The older girls would tell her that were later sold and under- a decade. their case. Lenten campaign beyond physical beatings. She told researchers after the one day she would know exactly went a series of refurbish- ‘I don’t think that is the launch in ‘We knew the priests and respected abuse she suffered she believed what life was like inside the laun- ments. They now house Petition: laura Collins with message the Church should be Dublin 1980 them, but I am sorry to say they nuns and priests to be ‘hypocrites’. dry, but she said she never knew the Limerick School of her mother Mary Teresa sending out,’ said Mr Dalton. didn’t respect us. But I said, “One ‘I had no religion in me from the then what they meant. Art & Design. day I will be able to tell my story,”’ time I was beaten so badly; religion But within a few short years she The past has been she said. just went out of me. I would say to would be all-too-familiar with the almost entirely erased ferent human beings to those who It was around this time, in 1955-56, the Diocese of Limerick in 1951. who received compensation from silenced. ‘I got more beatings [in She did not mention Bishop Casey, myself, “Why would these people brutal life inside Ireland’s save for a simple plaque entered as young girls – if they that she encountered Fr Eamonn The woman, who received a the State and the religious orders, Limerick] than I ever got in my life- or any sexual abuse against her in go to Church, hurt other people that Magdalene Laundries. – and the scars ingrained managed to leave at all. The Justice Casey, who would later become redress settlement for alleged sex- following the Ryan Report. time. I knew my childhood had that interview, nor could she under never did wrong, and they’d still go ‘It was good days in the west of in so many who passed for Magdalenes Research Project Bishop of Galway and Kerry. Here, ual abuse, was never able to reveal This woman was just one among a changed and finished. I never got the stringent terms of the redress to Communion?” To me, I call Ireland, but when you went to these through its doors, with recorded the names of 284 women he had been curate at St John’s her full story, such were the limits sea of survivors, spread across the those beatings in the west of Ire- settlement which gagged the voices other places, it was hell on earth,’ women leaving as vastly dif- and girls who died at this laundry. Cathedral, after being ordained for placed on more than 16,000 people world, who wanted to be heard, not land. You were like a dog, beaten on of survivors in speaking out against Turn to Page 6 ➤➤

➤➤ From Page One Last week, this newspaper exclusively The Galway Diocese also confirmed it clients did not lodge complaints with the of the women, who took a High Court case in A spokesperson for the Limerick Diocese, However, before she died in her 70s, the Reacting, Ms Donovan – who has received revealed that Patricia Donovan, 56, a niece received one complaint in 2005. That com- Kerry Diocese, while Ms Donovan never 2016, was forced to sign a non-disclosure which ultimately paid this compensation woman revealed, in an oral testimony to a no payment from this newspaper – this week her time in Magdalene Laundries in 2013, at of Bishop Casey claims she was raped and plaint is understood to be Ms Donovan’s. contacted that diocese about alleged abuse agreement after she was offered a settle- from diocesan funds, said it could not detail survivors’ organisation, harrowing details of told the MoS: ‘I am relieved the truth has a time she was precluded by law from sexually abused by him from the age of five, The Kerry Diocese had last week refused that happened there. ment of over €100,000 for the abuse she the sum offered, but again confirmed it did her life in Magdalene Laundries (see story, come out after all this time and I am very revealing details of her settlement. for more than a decade. to confirm to this newspaper if any com- Kerry Diocese said this week: ‘We can alleges she suffered during Casey’s years in not impose any conditions upon this woman above). Due to the Redress laws under grateful for all the support I have received.’ The other woman who made a settlement As part of the investigations into Ms Dono- plaints against Casey had been received by confirm that one historical concern regard- the Limerick Diocese. When queries regard- as part of that settlement. which she received compensation, she could Every diocese in the country was con- over her allegations against the Bishop van’s claims, the MoS confirmed for the first them. However, following public pressure, ing Bishop Casey was received by the dio- ing the sum and the non-disclosure agree- Solicitor Tommy Dalton, of Crowley Millar not reveal any details of her alleged abuser, tacted this week by the MoS by phone and received a six-figure sum, and was made to time – 27 years on from the Annie Murphy the diocese was forced to confirm on Tues- cese. This information was forwarded to the ment were put to the solicitor then acting in Limerick city, who acted on behalf of this Bishop Casey, or of her redress payment. email to determine if they had received any sign a non-disclosure agreement by lawyers revelations – that two other allegations of day that it had received one complaint. Gardaí and the HSE and the person con- for Casey – Liam F Coghlan in Killarney, plaintiff, said he wasn’t in a position to com- Cork-based solicitor, John Hussey, who complaints against Casey. The dioceses acting on behalf of Casey’s estate. child sexual abuse by Bishop Casey led to To date, it has refused to reveal in which cerned was offered support by the Diocese.’ who is a relative of the bishop – said he had ment when contacted by this newspaper. acted for the woman in her claim, this week which had not responded last night were: The MoS can also reveal that a senior separate settlements, one through the year this complaint was made. But the MoS Crucially, none of the three women previ- ‘no comment’ to make. The MoS can also reveal that the woman declined to comment on his client’s case. Killala, Kildare, and Derry. Every other dio- Church source has said two women in Residential Institutions Redress Board. can confirm that allegation does not involve ously revealed were offered or received The MoS also asked Mr Coghlan to com- who was offered compensation under the cese confirmed that they had not received London contacted the Church regarding This was confirmed by the Limerick Dio- any of the three women who we last week support from the Kerry Diocese – another ment on all the allegations which have Residential Institutions Redress Board – any complaints in relation to Casey. their accounts of alleged abuse, following cese after the MoS discovered documentary revealed had made allegations. confirmation that a fourth person had made emerged against Bishop Casey and if he again for alleged child sexual abuse during Trócaire also confirmed it had received no Casey’s time there in the early 1960s, with- evidence that had previously been redacted Solicitors for the two plaintiffs against a fourth set of allegations. wished to comment on behalf of the Casey Casey’s time in Limerick in the mid-1950s – complaints against him. out making any formal complaint. referencing the redress settlement. Casey have confirmed to the MoS that their This newspaper has also learned that one family. Again, he declined to comment. has passed away. COMMENT Page 21 [email protected]  The Irish Mail on Sunday MARCH 31 • 2019 A ‘feel of Guy Fawkes’ as Metro tunnel will go under Leinster House Drillers under the Dáil set to shake up our politicians By John Drennan

THE Houses of the Oireachtas are set to be both shaken and stirred – once tunnelling begins along the new agreed Metrolink route. To date attention on the route has focused on the over-ground conse- quences for Ranelagh and Dublin Bay South. station: However, the final route for the The preferred underground section of the Metro- route will run link has revealed that it will also under rock the foundations of the state Leinster as it passes under the Houses of House the Oireachtas and the National Library in Dublin 2. The issue was raised by Sena- plot: The plan has tor Michael McDowell at a private been likened to briefing of political representatives Guy Fawkes’s by the National Transport Authority gunpowder plot at Dublin’s Alex Hotel last week. Mr McDowell asked officials what sort of impact the tunnelling of parliament has a bit of a Guy nelling. It will be interesting to see Charlemont towards Ranelagh. madness to just create some sort of would have, in terms of noise. Fawkes feel to it.’ what the tunnellers will find. This Sources within the NTA said the pharaoh’s tomb that will be sealed Responding to the queries, NTA But a possibly relieved Mr is a 17th-century house. There tunnel would be sealed off for 20 off for 20 years’. officials conceded some form of McDowell also revealed that: ‘the could be anything buried down years and would not be used for Although the NTA said that the noise would disturb the musings of tunnel will go under the Dáil rather there.’ passenger traffic. tunnel could be used to store trams, our parliamentarians. than the Seanad chamber, so the One TD warned: ‘It would be Green Party leader Eamon Ryan, Labour’s Kevin Humphreys The official, on further question- upper house will be spared the unfortunate if there was an ongo- slammed the proposal, insisting it warned: ‘Past form does not rule ing, conceded: ‘the disturbance will worst of it.’ ing rumbling, there is enough of was ‘crazy, they should keep going out the possibility that once the be like a washing machine in the One member said it would be ter- that here already’. on to Donnybrook and UCD and election is over the NTA will resur- room next to you.’ rible: ‘if our TDs and senators like Separately, controversy is grow- linking up with Trinity college and rect the original plan to turn Rane- But Mr McDowell retorted: ‘Tun- David Norris have to shout even ing over the plan to extend the tun- DCU’. lagh into Berlin. nelling under the national houses louder to be heard above the tun- nel by 650 metres beyond He said: ‘it would be ‘economic [email protected] ‘I never did wrong to anybody. I was a little girl’ ➤➤ From Page 5 ‘It was a place where you learnt to bury she would marry and have a child, she would only destroy them, and their the pain. Days and months didn’t bother said her past continued to haunt her all families. them hypocrites. They have hurt so many me – I didn’t know what they were. I her life. ‘You have to bring it out and don’t be one people.’ thought I was there forever. While she was physically free, she said: bit ashamed. There is nothing to be Initially, she was placed in the ‘We were slaves from one end of the day ‘I used to look behind me to see if there ashamed of. The truth is good.’ reformatory school in Limerick, before to the other,’ she said. ‘I had to stay alive.’ were nuns following me. My husband used She entered her High Court proceedings moving on to the laundry. She was told by Years on, she would finally leave her life to say to me, “That’s the past, forget about for personal injury damages against the nuns: “You’re here because you had a in the laundries and was let out into the the past.” Bishop Casey in 2001, and they were later baby. You’re here for stealing.” world, with little support and no map to ‘I still have nightmares. One night I struck out in 2005 after the redress ‘I didn’t know what those words were. I guide her way in life. woke up and I was screaming, and I used settlement was confirmed. The Redress said I never did. I said I was sent here ‘They gave me two half crowns, but said, to cry in my sleep, thinking they were Board made awards to people who were from the west of Ireland. They told me I “You’ll be back again. No one will want coming for me. They still torment you.’ abused as children. But the fact of her was lying.’ you. You are no good for nothing”. So, I The mental shadow of the Magdalene redress was only revealed for the first She was slapped across the face, beaten; wanted to get on. abuse would persist right up into her time last week, after a reference to it was they shaved off all her ‘lovely hair’ and ‘After that, I was as free as a whistle. I seventies, when she passed away. found in files relating to former Bishop locked up her in a dark room, where they thought maybe the gods are looking after Through a support group in the UK, she Casey, given to his niece Patricia would throw buckets of water on her me. Maybe I am staying out now. The day helped other survivors of abuse, and Donovan. for ‘crimes’ or ‘offences’ she said never they opened the door, and left me out, and encouraged them to speak out, to tell their The settlement was subsequently existed. Why, she wondered, could the left me at the bus stop, though I had truth, and help free themselves from the confirmed by Limerick Diocese. public not hear her screams and come to nowhere to go, I thought I am finally free.’ chains of the past. She warned that Vindication that came too late for one help her? Even after she moved to London, where internalising all those years of abuse victim. 12 sv1 The Irish Mail on Sunday APRIL 21 • 2019 APRIL 21 • 2019 The Irish Mail on Sunday 13 Nephew of Bishop Casey abused me Victim speaks out By Anne Sheridan in hope of finally I apologise unreservedly to Patricia A NIECE of disgraced Bishop Eamonn Casey, who has claimed the late bishop sexually abused her from the age of five, has also ending campaign alleged she was abused by her own brother, Fr Michael Donovan. ...I deeply regret any hurt caused Fr Donovan has made a separate sex abuse to discredit her settlement in a case that was previously THE former Bishop of Killaloe has sorry’ for any hurt he caused for weren’t true, or that there was no raised in the Dáil – and three child abuse made a public apology to Patricia By Anne Sheridan repeating Bishop Casey’s remarks. foundation to them. If she or allegations have been made against him. that was started Donovan, the niece of Bishop He said that when he spoke on other people interpreted my Patricia Donovan, 56, who lives in England, Eamonn Casey, after he was used in Walsh, which the Killaloe bishop local radio he was not aware of any comments as such I deeply is speaking out about her brother, the bishop’s a smear campaign to tarnish her went on to repeat on Clare Fm in other allegation by Ms Donovan, apologise.’ nephew, in the hope of ending a campaign to by the bishop allegations. December 2005, before Ms nor was he aware of her allegation The DPP did not bring charges discredit her allegations, which was started Bishop Willie Walsh, 84, told the Donovan was formally interviewed against her brother, until he was against Bishop Casey on foot of by Bishop Casey, after she reported him 14 Irish Mail on Sunday this week that by gardaí. At that time, she had only told by this newspaper this week. Ms Donovan’s complaint, nor was years ago. he wants to ‘unreservedly apologise’ been interviewed by police in the He said: ‘I want to apologise any prosecution brought against The mother of two exclusively told the Irish to the mother of two, who claims UK, but that interview was not unreservedly to Patricia if I caused her brother in relation to her Mail on Sunday last month about her battle to ‘Forbidden’ to act as a priest she was raped and sexually abused accepted by the Irish her hurt by my comments at that complaint against him, nor in the try and protect other children from her uncle. by her uncle, Bishop Casey, from authorities and time. I deeply regret any hurt case of the altar boy he allegedly She alleges she was sexually abused and Documents obtained In one letter from Dublin Diocese. the the age of five in the late 1960s. detectives from caused and apologise to her. I am sexually abused. Bishop Walsh raped by Bishop Casey for more than a dec- by Patricia Donovan november 2005, then- report described his A short time after Ms Donovan Limerick travelled deeply sorry. I was simply said: ‘If there isn’t a direction by ade. She is among four women to have made through her solicitor Bishop of Limerick lack of action as made her complaint about Bishop to England to quoting Bishop Casey. I regret the Director of Public complaints of child sexual abuse against him, reveal the limitations Donal murray wrote to ‘inexcusable’. Casey to police in the UK in 2005, interview her some quoting Bishop Casey at that Prosecutions, or even if a person two of whom received settlements, including the church imposed on one authority – the Another letter from he called Bishop Walsh and insisted months later. time. I should not have is found not guilty in court, that one through the institutional redress board. her brother, Fr michael identity of which has Bishop murray sent to she had also made ‘unfounded Bishop Walsh’s expressed confidence then doesn’t mean that there is no Donovan. they include been redacted or Fr Donovan, dated allegations’ against others. remarks were that his name would be merit in a person’s case.’ correspondence blacked out – about Fr november 12, 2005, Ms Donovan also made a formal reported in a number of cleared.’ He added: ‘I In an article in The Irish Times regarding her uncle Donovan’s ministry. reads: ‘I am sorry to complaint to gardaí that she was national newspapers at did not say and had on December 10, 2005, Bishop ‘I was simply quoting Bishop Bishop eamonn casey, It reads: ‘A nephew of have to tell you that sexually abuse as a child by her the time and have no intention of Walsh was quoted as saying: ‘He as revealed in the Irish [redacted], who has another complaint has brother, Fr Michael Donovan, who been repeated since. saying that her [Bishop Casey] assured me that Casey. I regret quoting him’ mail on sunday on been out of ministry been received, this time was forced to step down from his The former allegation had no there wasn’t any foundation for march 24. As with much and forbidden to from your sister ministry in 1995 after an allegation bishop, who call from credence nor did I this allegation.’ He added: ‘The of the correspondence present himself as a Patricia. she made this of sexual abuse was made against retired in 2010, casey: make any person is personally known to him However, prior to reporting her uncle to previously published priest since my arrival complaint in england in him by an altar boy. told the MoS Former judgment on her. I for a long number of years and he gardaí, she made another complaint, that her relating to Bishop in Limerick’ (below). the last few days and I Bishop Casey made a series of he is now bishop Willie did not say that spoke with a lot of sympathy and brother, now dead, was abusing her at around casey, large parts of Bishop murray was have not received any claims about his niece to Bishop ‘deeply Walsh her allegations compassion for that person.’ the same time. the files concerning her forced to resign as details… I am sure this The Limerick diocese has now confirmed it brother – who faced Bishop of Limerick in is distressing news for received three complaints against Fr Dono- three complaints of november 2009 after you and I am sorry to Bishop casey: diocese, and then in Galway from van, one of which resulted in a settlement of alleged abuse within the murphy Report have to convey it to you He moved the 1990 to 1995, when he was removed £30,000. Allegations against the priest by an the Limerick Diocese found that he had by letter. obviously, priest, his nephew, from ministry. In Galway, he served altar boy led to questions, in the Dáil in 1995, before his death in mishandled child there will have to be an to his own diocese at the Church of the Resurrection as to why no charges were brought. 2018 – were redacted. sexual abuse investigation into this in Galway after the and at St Patrick’s Church. Ms Donovan reported her claims allegations within the by the gardaí.’ altar boy’s claims When he died last November no against her brother to police in the death notice was published. He was UK in July 2004, and to gardaí in disgraced in 1995 when it emerged September that year. She was he paid about £30,000 in damages to worried about the safety of children a former altar boy, who was alleg- after Fr Donovan moved to Poland, edly sexually abused in Limerick in where he was teaching English to 1989, when he was aged 12. students. In November 1995, the then Bishop The MoS has established that Bishop Walsh’s comments have and the institution of Galway, Dr James McLoughlin, Bishop Casey used members of the been repeated numerous times over would have responded to it in that a third complainant. In a statement announced the removal of Fr Dono- media and the clergy, including the the past 14 years, and continued to way. But it is very upsetting to know to the MoS, a spokesperson for the van, in a statement read out at Mass, former Bishop of Killaloe Willie be aired even after the MoS exclu- that in 2019, 14 years after she first diocese read: ‘An Garda Síochána and Bishop McLoughlin said the Walsh, to discredit his niece’s sively revealed her allegations. came forward, she still hasn’t was notified in all three cases but no Galway diocese did not provide claims, after she reported him to On March 24, the results of the received the acknowledgement that prosecution ensued. Fr Donovan funds for the damages. The Limer- UK police in late 2005. six-month investigation by the MoS shows some level of accountability, was taken out of ministry in 1995 ick diocese has now confirmed that Bishop Walsh told the MoS this revealed compensation payments of justice, of healing for her. I really and did not return to ministry prior it paid those damages. week that he now regrets remarks were made to two other women, hope the Church authorities and dio- to his death last year. Any instance Fine Gael TD Alan Shatter raised he made in 2005, after receiving a including a woman who had been in ceses think about their responsibil- of child sexual abuse is abhorrent phone call from Bishop Casey. He a Magdalene Laundry in Limerick. ity to Patricia and others.’ and the diocese gravely regrets any said Dr Casey claimed ‘there wasn’t The same day as those revelations He added: ‘Much of the hurt that such actions involving its priests.’ any foundation for this allegation’ were published, Patsy McGarry, Patricia experienced since 2005 is The MoS has also established that ‘It is not good enough and his niece made ‘unfounded alle- religious affairs correspondent with due to how the Church responded to Bishop Casey moved Fr Donovan gations’ against others. He did not The Irish Times, quoted Bishop her and to cases like hers, involving from Limerick to Galway, where he that damages were paid’ back up his claims to Bishop Walsh. Walsh’s remarks on the Marian was bishop, after the complaint by Bishop Walsh said: ‘I was simply Finucane show on RTÉ Radio One. the altar boy. The Diocese of Galway, quoting Bishop Casey. I regret quot- Mr McGarry said: ‘These allega- CAMPAIGN Kilmacduagh and Kilfenora has told the issue in the Dáil in 1995, with ing Bishop Casey at that time. I tions first emerged in 2005 when he this newspaper: ‘No complaints calls for an inquiry as to why there should not have expressed confi- was in the Diocese of Arundel and DON’T HIDE involving Fr Donovan concerning was no prosecution. dence then that his name would be Brighton. It was known that she was THE TRUTH the safeguarding of children or Deputy Shatter, who later became cleared.’ He had made the com- a relative of Bishop Casey’s at the vulnerable adults were ever made justice minister, said at that time: ‘It ments to Clare Fm at the time. time, though that wasn’t publicised, Bishop Casey. They need to take directly to the diocese.’ is not good enough that damages are Separately, in August 2006, Bishop and as I said, he wasn’t the only responsibility for that and they need A spokesperson said: ‘On 19th paid, matters are covered up and Casey told the Irish Times of his person accused by her. to work very hard to address that.’ November 1995, Fr Donovan was people are shifted around the coun- ‘utter and absolute relief’ that no ‘All I am saying is that very few Both the Limerick and Galway stepped aside from ministry by try as if they are participating in a charges were brought against him. abuse victims make false allega- dioceses were again asked this week Bishop James McLoughlin. Fr Dono- game of musical chairs. He was ‘utterly amazed’ at the speed tions, that’s proven again and again if their respective bishops had any van returned immediately to Limer- ‘It is my understanding that the of the decision, as it was just three and again. Low percentages are comment or words of healing to give ick and never again ministered in Director of Public Prosecutions, for weeks since gardaí questioned him. false. But I just don’t know. There the four alleged victims of Bishop this diocese. While at all times hon- whatever reason, decided in this The article stated: ‘The woman, are a lot of holes in this... I am not Casey and to the three alleged ouring the wishes of survivors of case, as in the other two [cases, in who is believed to have known Dr saying she’s.... I just don’t know, I victims of Fr Donovan. But no state- abuse, Bishop Brendan Kelly, relation to other priests], that no Casey most of her life, made similar just don’t know.’ ment directly addressing this was Bishop of GK&K offers to meet with prosecution should proceed. I am unproven allegations against others Abuse survivor and campaigner provided by either diocese. any person who has suffered abuse very sad to note that it was only as a in the past and is understood to have Colm O’Gorman, who spoke to Ms The Limerick diocese did confirm by clergy or others.’ result of the publication of The Sun- suffered ill-health in recent years.’ Donovan after the article was to the MoS that it received three Fr Donovan was initially based in day Tribune on Sunday that the Ms Donovan said the only com- published, told the MoS: ‘It is not complaints against Fr Donovan: one Limerick, from 1983 to 1990, then priest concerned was withdrawn plaints she made to gardaí were shocking that someone in Bishop in 1990 by an altar boy; one in 2005 for a number of months in Ennisty- from parish work.’ against Dr Casey and Fr Donovan. Casey’s position behaved like this by Ms Donovan; and one in 2011 by mon, Co. Clare, under the Galway [email protected]