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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 children 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. 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 28Pt MoSCentury Regular ghjkhjksdfhgjkjkjkdfgjkkg 28Pt MoSCentury Regular ghjkhjksdfhgjkjkjkdfgjkkg 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. 32Pt MoSCentury Regular sdfjghjkhjkjkskdgsdfgsdf 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 32Pt MoSCentury Regular sdfjghjkhjkjkskdgsdfgsdf 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 w The Irish Mail on Sunday March 24 • 2019 March 24 • 2019 The Irish Mail on Sunday

72Pt GothamCondensed hjgjksdf- 72Pt GothamCondensed hjgjksdf- HeHeHEN Patricia Donovan waswas likelike aa PiedPied PiperPiper 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. raping her as a child seated He managed to abuse people on the altar. through his charisma. There were WBut there he was – Bishop Eamonn Casey, her two distinct sides to him – one was Xytx yxt yxt ytx ytxv uncle – in clerical garb, officiating at the funeral charismatic and the other was abso- Xytx yxt yxt ytx ytxv 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. Xtx yxt yxt xyx xyt Xtx yxt yxt xyx xyt 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 Xtx yxt yxt xyx xyt Xtx yxt yxt xyx xyt 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 Copyright I wasn’t able to go through with it. I Galactic headline these restrictions – imposed on him by the Vati- couldn’t afford to go to Limerick. I Galactic headline please 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’ the evil out of her”’ Benton headline removal,’ she revealed. Bishop Eamonn Casey outside Benton headline 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 EXCLUSIVE This is some dummy text that 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 EXCLUSIVE This is some dummy text that can 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. can be used to indicate how many words fit a be used to indicate how many words fit a in 1967 when she alleges she was 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 exclusive interview by 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. know me, so I will introduce myself suffering began to lose ground. Casey’s permeating established. ‘The Diocese of Arundel and Xty xyt xyx txy txy txy xtx ytx yxt yxt xyt xyx tyx txy as Bishop of Kerry and Bishop of people to be abusers by doing noth- Xty xyt xyx txy txy txy xtx ytx yxt yxt xyt xyx tyx txy Galway. anne sheridan 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 Xtyxtyxtyxtyxt Xtyxtyxtyxtyxt 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 28Pt MoSCentury Regular ghjkhjksdfhgjkjkjkdfgjkkg ‘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. 28Pt MoSCentury Regular ghjkhjksdfhgjkjkjkdfgjkkg 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. 32Pt MoSCentury Regular sdfjghjkhjkjkskdgsdfgsdf 32Pt MoSCentury Regular sdfjghjkhjkjkskdgsdfgsdf 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 v1 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 72Pt GothamCondensed hjgjksdf- 72Pt GothamCondensed hjgjksdf- to allow him to return home, so he moved to England. for 75 years is Xytx yxt yxt ytx ytxv REALLY CAmE ‘another cover-up’ Xytx yxt yxt ytx ytxv 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 groups have described this action by the truth the Government as further evidence of a ‘cover-up’ and are calling for a By Anne Sheridan debate and also for survivors to be Xtx yxt yxt xyx xyt individually consulted. have requested that, when they die, Xtx yxt yxt xyx xyt 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. Redress Review Committee, would be Ian Elliott, safeguarding consultant Xtx yxt yxt xyx xyt battle to have her allegations taken seriously. Here we reveal sealed in the national archives until and first chief executive of the Xtx yxt yxt xyx xyt key documents that show the gripping timeline of a woman Limerick diocese 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 Galactic headline Galactic headline please 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 Benton headline Benton headline 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- those referenced in the reports would ‘Closing the records goes against the EXCLUSIVE This is some dummy text that In 2017, Limerick-based solicitor Donovan and Bishop Casey were Crucially, three sentences in a key EXCLUSIVE This is some dummy text that can 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 can be used to indicate how many words fit a 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 be used to indicate how many words fit a – as the State plans to seal the child taking a case. by the English Diocese of Arundel * [Red redaction marks are Irish Mail lived at that time. The child protec- 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. Bags packed at his then home his old stomping ground. Here at Ms McDonnell-Byrne co-founded was education minister when this Xty xyt xyx txy txy txy xtx ytx yxt yxt xyt xyx tyx txy Xty xyt xyx txy txy txy xtx ytx yxt yxt xyt xyx tyx txy 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- in2 Sussex, England, Bishop Casey was Shanaglish3 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 Xtyxtyxtyxtyxt 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. Xtyxtyxtyxtyxt 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 gAlwAy 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- 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 28Pt MoSCentury Regular ghjkhjksdfhgjkjkjkdfgjkkg 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 28Pt MoSCentury Regular ghjkhjksdfhgjkjkjkdfgjkkg 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. 32Pt MoSCentury Regular sdfjghjkhjkjkskdgsdfgsdf 32Pt MoSCentury Regular sdfjghjkhjkjkskdgsdfgsdf 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. March 24 • 2019 the Irish mail on Sunday comment 23 the cleaning sensation sweeping the nation! 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State effort to roi Family tragedy March 31, 2019 €3.00 hide the truth 72Pt GothamCondensed hjgjksdf- 72Pt GothamCondensed hjgjksdf- is inexcusable WheN Bishop eamonn Casey died in that hurts across 2017, there were many Catholics who felt he had completed his penance and atoned for the sin of fathering a son while in active ministry. his misfortune, many FREE INSIDE believed, was that his was among the first, and certainly the most high-profile, scan- Xytx yxt yxt ytx ytxv Xytx yxt yxt ytx ytxv dal to beset the Church, and they justified their tolerance by reminding us that he was a philanderer and not a paedophile. Mrs Hinch’s guide the generations Today, after a nine-month investigation, we reveal that his niece, Patricia Donovan, says Bishop Casey sexually abused her for he St Patrick’s night over a decade from the age of just five. tragedy in Cookstown, ±±The similarities It was her 2005 complaint to police in the in which three young between Ireland and New UK that had Bishop Casey, by then known simply as Fr Casey, banned from active to making spring people were crushed to Zealand have often been ministry, a ban he later flouted by officiat- Xtx yxt yxt xyx xyt death as they queued to remarked upon. New Xtx yxt yxt xyx xyt get into a disco, brought Zealand’s population of ing at family funerals and concelebrating back memories of 4,844,000 is just 13,000 the Chrism Mass in the cathedral in Gal- darkerT times in the area. greater than ours. Our way, one of his former dioceses, in 2010. 8-page It was revealed that of the age breakdown and In 2006, he said he wanted to return to three young victims – Lauren economies are very Ireland to see out his days here, another cleaning fun Bullock, Connor Currie and similar. even our crime wish that was treated with indulgence. In special SEE magazINE Morgan Barnard – the latter rates are uncannily truth, it was because he was under inves- Xtx yxt yxt xyx xyt Xtx yxt yxt xyx xyt family had suffered another similar and relatively low tigation in england. tragedy on the same night 43 – less than 50 people died years ago. violently in the two On March 17, 1976 a group of countries in 2017. But At that time, Casey himself revealed to UVF men known as the that changed the child protection officer of the Diocese Glenanne Gang detonated a dramatically on Friday, of Arundel and Brighton that another no-warning car bomb in nearby March 15 when the Galactic headline woman he allegedly sexually abused when Galactic headline please Dungannon killing four people Christchurch mosque she was a child had been through the – Andrew Small, Joseph Kelly shootings saw 50 people Redress Board process and had received and two best friends James killed at their place of a settlement. This has been confirmed to McCaughey and Patrick worship. But the response Barnard, who were on their way of New Zealand’s the Irish Mail on Sunday this week by the to a teenage disco. Morgan 37-year-old prime Diocese of Limerick. Barnard is the grandnephew of minister Jacinda Ardern, Gardaí interviewed Patricia Donovan Patrick Barnard. pictured, to the atrocity and the DPP decided no charges would be Of course, to say that last has been calming, brought, but the allegations were made bishop casey week’s tragedy brought back dignified and wondrous to known to the holy See and the hSe. The Benton headline Benton headline memories of 1976 is untrue, behold. It’s such a pity it Diocese of Galway paid for counselling because the Barnard family took a horrendous and healing retreats for Ms Donovan. have never stopped campaign- massacre for the world to We reveal this today against the back- ing to get justice for their realise that she’s a leader drop of plans to place the records of the EXCLUSIVE This is some dummy text that EXCLUSIVE This is some dummy text that can 13-year-old brother. worth following. Commission To Inquire Into Child Abuse, eddie Barnard, Patrick’s older the Residential Institutions Redress brother, has tirelessly cam- Board, and the Residential Institutions paigned to expose the so-called Redress Review Committee in the can be used to indicate how many words fit a Glenanne Gang, who murdered into the killing of three mem- National Archives, where they will be be used to indicate how many words fit a more than 100 people in the bers of The Miami Showband – sealed for 75 years, instead of the 30-year accused by mid-Ulster area in the 1970s. carried out by the same gang on limit for State papers. James McCaughey’s father, July 31st, 1975 – will hopefully Norbert, campaigned up to his focus attention on their murder- Xty xyt xyx txy txy txy xtx ytx yxt yxt xyt xyx tyx txy Xty xyt xyx txy txy txy xtx ytx yxt yxt xyt xyx tyx txy death two years ago for a State Joe ous activities. This longer limit was agreed, we have inquiry into the murders – and At least four members of the been told, to protect the victims. Many of his family continue that battle. UDR were involved in that the victims, however, say they were not Shortly before he died, Nor- massacre – we know this cate- consulted and would rather the informa- Xtyxtyxtyxtyxt bert revealed that his wife gorically because two of them tion were made public. They wonder why Xtyxtyxtyxtyxt Molly ‘slept with a picture of were killed when their bomb James under her pillow every Duffy exploded prematurely. the State seems so uniquely and oddly night until she died two years Like the Barnard and paternalistic in this instance. ago’. McCaughey families, Stephen The Church and State have been locked in a grim cycle of collusion in many of four women 28Pt MoSCentury Regular ghjkhjksdfhgjkjkjkdfgjkkg ‘her dying wish was that our never afraid to tackle Travers – one of the Miami 28Pt MoSCentury Regular ghjkhjksdfhgjkjkjkdfgjkkg son get proper justice.’ Showband survivors – has cru- these cases. Over decades, officials who Details of victim’s Up to her death, Patrick Bar- saded over the years to expose knew abuse was taking place in orphan- Peter Casey nard’s mother, Mona, went to the stories that matter the involvement of members of ages and industrial schools continued to bed every night with her son’s State security forces, and is the send children there. When a tsunami of Magdalene ‘hell’ Mystery illness 32Pt MoSCentury Regular sdfjghjkhjkjkskdgsdfgsdf 32Pt MoSCentury Regular sdfjghjkhjkjkskdgsdfgsdf school jumper under her pillow. pivotal figure in the new Netflix abuse cases hit in the Nineties, the Redress in planning Thanks to Norbert McCaughey, – which included members of gang had planted the bombs in documentary. Board was established more like an adver- eddie Barnard and crusading State security forces – are being Dublin and Monaghan in May It is clear that there is a major sarial court that left many who testified revealed on tape journalists like Susan McKay continually highlighted . 1974 which killed 34 people. The police investigation ongoing feeling abused all over again – and the and Anne Cadwallader, the Before killing four people in release this weekend on Netflix into last Sunday night’s disco sweetheart deal done with the Church for EXCLUSIVE forces Jagger row... after he activities of the Glenanne Gang Dungannon, members of the of a major new documentary tragedy. The grieving families compensation remains a national stain. of Lauren Bullock, Connor As the cervical check scandal and the By Anne Sheridan Currie and Morgan Barnard ongoing battle over compensation for the builds a wall! ±±The sale this week of racing pigeon forgot one important thing: you had to keep deserve the truth and nothing Kerry Babies’ victim Joanne hayes, the FOUR separate people have now EX-pRESIdEntIal candidate Armando for €1.25m brought back memories them locked up in their new home for a few less. Unfortunately, the Small, State is still congenitally driven to protect made allegations of child sexual abuse to cancel his peter Casey is in a dispute over of our ill-fated efforts to raise homing pigeons weeks! Naively, we could not wait that long Kelly, McCaughey and Barnard itself. Imposing a limit of 75 years feels against the late Bishop Eamonn Casey, a sea wall at his donegal home. in Ballyfermot. It seemed every teenager in and released them the following day, never to families are still fighting for the not so much like victim protection as it the Irish Mail on Sunday can confirm. the council says he has no right the area had a makeshift pigeon loft – and we be seen again. We went back into the pet truth and awaiting justice. does a means for self-defence. The MoS can also reveal that the woman to build it – but he says that were no exception. My brothers and I saved shop a week later to see our pigeons back on If we are to have a truly progressive, who made the redress settlement with lough Foyle is UK jurisdiction. up to buy a Roller and a Tumbler – the most sale again! Let’s hope Armando’s new $250m US tour Write to Joe at: the irish Mail Bishop Casey is dead – and spoke out about popular types of homing pigeons. Of course, Chinese owner holds on to him longer than open and compassionate society, then this Page 8 on Sunday, embassy House, law must not be allowed to pass. FULL STORY See Pages 8-9 when we got them home to their new loft, we the Duffy clan. Ballsbridge, Dublin 4 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 72Pt GothamCondensed hjgjksdf- baby came out... We knew it was a priest 72Pt GothamCondensed hjgjksdf- 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 Xytx yxt yxt ytx ytxv Xytx yxt yxt ytx ytxv 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, Xtx yxt yxt xyx xyt Records Bill – approved by sealed for 75 years newspaper of the allegations by a Bishop Casey lived in a nursing Xtx yxt yxt xyx xyt 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 can not good terms. died aged 57, and was buried in a institutions Redress Board when acknowledged by the Church. provide any insight. We just hung The first time they met, before 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 have any the revelations emerged in the Xtx yxt yxt xyx xyt 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 Xtx yxt yxt xyx xyt 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 done before in his life,’ 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, 44, who 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 Born in 1974, the revelation 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. 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 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 Galactic headline Galactic headline please 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 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 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 I was aBUsED 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 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 BY MY UNCLE ‘Oh, that convent, they slaved us, comparison to what she would being protected by this newspaper. has never stopped, and this is 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 BIsHOP CasEY animals to them. They had no There was a time when she bliss- fined to a number of different laun- irish Mail on Sunday. ÷ respect for us. Just bring it out, let ÷ fully recalled seeing planes flying dries around the country, before in a statement to the MoS, the think anyone could believe that the public see for their own two overhead, out across the Atlantic, she eventually managed to escape Archdiocese of Dublin, said it he has not done what he has been eyes, how badly we were treated. If Benton headline A NIECE of the late Bishop Eamonn Casey claims she was 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 abused by they had their own way the priests him from the age of five for more than a decade. Documents obtained by the MoS The Irish Mail on Sunday can also solicitors reveal that Bishop Casey’s Benton headline reveal that two other allegations of in Dublin consented to a settlement Aged 15, she was brought debated further’. will not pass.’ child sexual abuse by Bishop Casey e and all would rape us, but the nuns of compensation to one woman led to separate settlements – one Eamonn Casey accused of sexual abus under the Redress Board, which Bishop: through the Residential Institutions- ±± niece: Patricia Donovan ‘abused from age five’ Redress Board – to women who accused him of abusing them as chil to St Mary’s, on the sprawl- ian elliott, safeguarding Solicitor tommy Dalton, of dren in the 1950s and 1960s. were there. ing Good Shepherd consultant and first chief Crowley Millar in Limerick, who ‘One day a nun fell on the floor EXCLUSIVE This is some dummy text that EXCLUSIVE This is some dummy text that can ‘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 can be used to indicate how many words fit a 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 be used to indicate how many words fit a 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, Xty xyt xyx txy txy txy xtx ytx yxt yxt xyt xyx tyx txy 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 Xty xyt xyx txy txy txy xtx ytx yxt yxt xyt xyx tyx txy The site and buildings But the abuse she suffered went or nuns now.’ near the convent on the west coast. child sexual abuse for more than instances, they had to prove at the Trócaire 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 Xtyxtyxtyxtyxt 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’. Xtyxtyxtyxtyxt 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 28Pt MoSCentury Regular ghjkhjksdfhgjkjkjkdfgjkkg 28Pt MoSCentury Regular ghjkhjksdfhgjkjkjkdfgjkkg 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 32Pt MoSCentury Regular sdfjghjkhjkjkskdgsdfgsdf 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 ±± 32Pt MoSCentury Regular sdfjghjkhjkjkskdgsdfgsdf ±± 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]