IRELAND
Irish Independent
By Mark Hilliard
Thursday May 17 2012
THE ‘Prime Time Investigates’ reporter Aoife Kavanagh insisted she could stand over the allegations made in the disastrous ‘Mission To Prey’ programme days after it was broadcast.
Newly published legal documents reveal a fresh insight into who knew what and when during the build-up to the massive libel settlement with Fr Kevin Reynolds.
The Galway priest had strenuously offered a paternity test before its broadcast on May 23, accusing him of raping an African woman and fathering her child.
Amid a flurry of legal correspondence, reporter Aoife Kavanagh — who has since resigned her position with RTE — insisted that ‘Prime Time Investigates’ could stand over all of the allegations.
It has also emerged that Sheila Mudi — whom RTE falsely identified as Fr Reynolds’ illegitimate child — had written a letter in or around July of last year detailing how Fr Reynolds was not her father.
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