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Irish Independent

By Mark Hilliard and Fionnan Sheahan

Friday April 27 2012

JUSTICE Minister Alan Shatter remained under pressure last night to apologise for supporting the RTE programme that defamed Fr Kevin Reynolds.

Mr Shatter made a public statement the morning after the RTE ‘Prime Time Investigates’ programme last year, which falsely accused the Galway priest of rape and of fathering a daughter with a Kenyan woman.

The minister said at the time he had watched the programme with a “sense of revulsion” at the unspeakable catalogue of abuse against children it had revealed.

Mr Shatter also contacted Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan about the programme — saying that people were entitled to be reassured that everything was being done to counteract this “evil”.