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Bishop Casey Is plus free giant ROI MARCH 24, 2019 €3.00 poster see page 33 free inside 72Pt GothamCondensed hjgjksdf- Greatest wildlife TV series eVer Xytx yxt yxt ytx ytxv souvenir special With DaviDattenborough see MagaZine Xtx yxt yxt xyx xyt Xtx yxt yxt xyx xyt I WAS ABUSED Galactic headline Benton headline BY MY UNCLE EXCLUSIVE This is some dummy text that can be used to indicate how many words fit a BISHOP CASEY Xty xyt xyx txy txy txy xtx ytx yxt yxt xyt xyx tyx txy ÷ Niece says she was Xtyxtyxtyxtyxt ÷ raped as a child MoS 28Pt MoSCentury Regular ghjkhjksdfhgjkjkjkdfgjkkg investigation reveals that allegations by two more 32Pt MoSCentury Regular sdfjghjkhjkjkskdgsdfgsdf Awomen NIECE of the latehave Bishop been settled 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 Copyright 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 lies and redress to account and to prevent other children from 72Pt GothamCondensed hjgjksdf- 72Pt GothamCondensed hjgjksdf- potentially being abused. ‘It was rape, everything you imagine. It was ‘Abused 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 Xytx yxt yxt ytx ytxv Detectives in Limerick travelled to England Limerick Diocese in 1951. Xytx yxt yxt ytx ytxv to take a statement from her in January 2006 but, by August of the same year, the Director of Public Prosecutions directed that no charg- 1969 Appointed Bishop of Kerry, es be brought on 13 sample allegations. from 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 Xtx yxt yxt xyx xyt her child, Peter – born in 1974 – Xtx yxt yxt xyx xyt 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 breakdown. made aware of these allegations.­­ However, the name of the alleged victim is the age 1992 -1998 Bishop Casey is Affair: Lover Xtx yxt yxt xyx xyt forced into exile after the Annie Annie Murphy Xtx yxt yxt xyx xyt with Peter, her Murphy revelations and spends six ‘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, Galactic headline disclosed in the files. The same alleged injured in England, where he works as a directly as a result of Patricia’s Galactic headline please 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 ministry. settlement was agreed. 2001 A woman initiates High The note on the files reads: ‘She made a claim of five’ 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 Benton headline Benton headline named to the Redress Board. The State is cur- ‘Restrictionsestrictions 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 ‘All allegations of abuse Board. including that he would not EXCLUSIVE This is some dummy text that This is some dummy text that can Testimony against Bishop Casey is contained of three complaints of child sexual COMMENT: PAGE 23 reported to the Diocese are say Mass. EXCLUSIVE 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- 2010 A spokesperson said these complaints with the complainant. on Bishop Casey’s priestly cooperates with the authorities Diocese of Arundel and Patricia is can be used to indicate how many words fit a 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 be used to indicate how many words fit a 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 Xty xyt xyx txy txy txy xtx ytx yxt yxt xyt xyx tyx txy 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 Xty xyt xyx txy txy txy xtx ytx yxt yxt xyt xyx tyx txy cee Annie Murphy became a public sensation, 2005 and a settlement was agreed in the confirmed that it is aware of Diocese, where Dr Casey was our Designated Liaison Person 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 Xtyxtyxtyxtyxt involved litigation but contact was Casey, made in 2005. allegations have been made spokesperson. allegation that his solicitors in Xtyxtyxtyxtyxt 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.
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