IRELAND
Irish Times
PATSY McGARRY, Religious Affairs Correspondent
BISHOP of Clonfert John Kirby made out-of-court settlements in the 1990s with two victims of an abuser priest in his diocese.
He said yesterday he believed the settlements were made in 1994 and 1998, and, “from memory”, these, including legal fees, totalled “circa IR£130,000”.
Both settlements arose from child abuse by the priest identified as “priest A” in a National Board for Safeguarding Children (NBSC) review published on Wednesday.
The review said “five separate complaints were made against priest ‘A’ between 1990 and 1997”. Priest A was convicted in the courts and served a jail sentence. The review established that when he became aware of child abuse allegations against A and another priest, “Bishop Kirby moved the priests against whom allegations were made to different parishes”.
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