DMEEIR DMEEIR 6 IRISH DAILY MIRROR SATURDAY 02.12.2017 irishmirror.ie SATURDAY 02.12.2017 IRISH DAILY MIRROR 7 MIRRORMAN REVEALS HELL AT hanDS OF seX PreDatoratoR BY PAT FLANAGAN DEATH and taxes are supposedly the only certainties in life but young boys who EXCITED Brian O’Donovan visited Dr Michael Shine’s surgery knew You can’t get lower there was a good chance he was going O’Donovan is to put his hands down their pants. It didn’t matter if you had a cut head or a busted finger, he would begin to new RTE man feel under your arms and then put his hand down your trousers to massage in the States your testicles. than molesting ill BY TREVOR QUINN I’m still trying to take it in that this creep has actually gone to jail for RTE has appointed Brian assaulting two teenage patients. O’Donovan as its new Fair play to Judge Cormac Quinn, I Washington corre- know it’s only 20 months, but it’s the spondent. principle, he escaped justice for 50 He replaces Caitriona years, but we got the bastard in the end. children but such Perry, who is moving to Not allowing this slimy pervert become the co-host of another week’s freedom to “put his RTE’s Six One news affairs in order” was a nice touch, bulletin alongside Keelin thanks Judge. Shanley. He had denied eight charges of He worked with TV3 as indecently assaulting six patients at the SENT a news reporter for 10 Lourdes Hospital and at his private was the deference years as well as finance clinic, both in Drogheda, Co Louth, DOWN correspondent and Michael Shine documentary maker. between 1964 and 1991. abused boys These dates are important because for decades Mr O’Donovan said he during those 27 years every young boy was “absolutely delighted” or teenager who attended one of with his new role. Shine’s clinics was in danger of being He added: “For me, this indecently assaulted by this predator. to people like Shine, is the dream job. His examination table held the same “I have very big shoes to horrors for boys and teenagers in the fill following on from my North East as the casting couch did for colleague Caitriona Perry young women in Hollywood. and I am really looking While the latter were pursuing a forward to starting in career in the film industry, the former Washington in the new he was able to get year.” were only looking for medical attention. To put it another way, Michael Shine was a very strange man, in a very I risked strange hospital at a very strange time. Shine, who was struck off the medical tetanus register in 2008, denied his guilt right rather than up until his conviction and so did a good away with it... treatment many of those who should have exposed him years ago. for a dog That fact he evaded justice since examined and within a matter of the hole in my leg. And there you have He was so notorious that boys rather then seek treatment for a dog vocabulary to bite to free medical attention. even more difficult for the brave men who Court in 2003. But great credit to those 1964, the year my father died, until now minutes Shine had his hand down my it, Shine had an unlimited supply of thought to be feigning injury on a bite to my left hamstring reckoning that properly describe “Accuse Mr Shine of doing such came forward. While I never made a who persevered for they have ensured tells you all you need to know about pants feeling my testicles. boys and teens to molest and he knew football field in the Drogheda area if he groped you for a finger injury what what had taken my leg terrible things? You should be damn formal complaint I did make my feelings justice was done for all the others. Irish society in the decades since. Like any other boy who had the there was absolutely nothing anyone would expect taunts such as, “Get up or would he do if you had to take your place. Even if I did grateful you had the expertise of a known to a young nurse as I left Shine’s Giving evidence during his recent trial, A BIT RICH Big jackpot win It’s not that it was not known that misfortune to be treated by this fiend I could do to stop him. we’ll send you up to Dr Shine”. pants down. who would listen great surgeon like Michael Shine” surgery on my last visit. She just shrugged he said that he would never do anything Shine was a danger to children. knew what to expect, because it You can’t get any lower than Whatever medical good he might I would say he molested me on at to a young fatherless boy whose mother would have been ringing in my mother’s her shoulders – as if to say, “That’s Shine, that would embarrass or upset a patient. Lotto winner He was so notorious that boys and happened before. molesting sick and injured children but have done during his long career it least four occasions over the years and was out working struggling to feed five ears had she gone to the local Garda what do you expect?” You’re a liar, you put your hands down young men would go without treatment You might ask why I’d go back but such was the deference to professionals pales into insignificance compared to apart from tell my mother, brothers and children? station. It has been a long struggle to bring this little boys pants. rather than volunteer themselves to be when you can see your shin bone like Shine, he got away with it. the damage he has caused. friends I did little about it. It was also a class thing, Shine was the When the complaints against Shine pervert to justice for although he was first If he is fearful of going to jail in disgrace lifts cheque sexually assaulted. through a gash it was a matter of It’s not that this abuse wasn’t known I wonder if any children suffered I did feel a burning anger because I hero surgeon working in the Lourdes went from a trickle to a flood the investigated by gardai in the 1990s he was at the end of his life hopefully he On one occasion I went to the priorities and while my mother was a about, it was common knowledge, but infections or may have even died knew there was absolutely nothing I International Missionary Training Hospital authorities at the Lourdes and some staff acquitted of indecent assault when he will think of the children he for €5.8m Lourdes to have my injured fingers skilled seamstress she couldn’t stitch up no one wanted to do anything about it. because of Shine. I risked tetanus could do about it. I didn’t even have the and we were the lower orders getting wrote letters of support for him to make it went on trial at Dundalk Circuit Criminal terrorised at the start of theirs. BY TREVOR QUINN A Lotto winner said hitting the €5.8million jackpot was like an “out-of- body experience”. Speaking as they collected the cheque at Lotto headquarters in Dublin, the punter added the feeling is “still inde- scribable”. The winner, who wishes to remain anonymous, said: “It’s fantastic – and to happen just before Christmas. “The whole family will BY DECLAN BRENNAN Lady of Lourdes Hospital and at his private places where the victims, who South Dublin, groped them during because he was “just a young boy”. The victim would escalate and wanted it to end. He told be getting slightly more Perv docclinic, both in Drogheda,caged Co Louth, between were children, were entitled to formedical examinations. 20 saidmonths the assault had a profoundly negative A RETIRED surgeon was jailed for 20 the court that for years he struggled with guilt, extravagant Christmas Vile retired surgeon months yesterday for sexual attacks on 1964 and 1991. feel they were in a place that was safe. One survivor attended at the effect on his life and he suffered insomnia and embarrassment and shame. presents than originally two teenage boys. He was acquitted on the remainder of the He imposed consecutive sentences of 10 hospital with an ingrowing depression after the attack. The witness told the court: “That is the insid- planned. charges. months for the indecent assault on each of the toenail. The second survivor testified that during two Michael Shine, 85, had denied the charges of ious nature of sexual assault. It leaves you “Retirement is the last Judge Cormac Quinn said the severe breach victims. He told the trial that Shine tied him follow-up examinations for undescended testes thing on my mind at the indecently assaulting the two 15-year-old believing somehow you were at fault.” guilty of assaulting of trust by a senior doctor at the pinnacle of his The judge rejected an application from to a bed with rubber restraints and a at Shine’s private clinic in Drogheda, the moment but with this He said Shine’s denials during the trial patients in a hospital in the mid-70s. profession was one of the most aggravating Shine’s lawyers to give Shine a week to put his blanket and then slipped his hand under pervert massaged his penis. magnificent windfall, I am The predator had pleaded not guilty at factors.