IRELAND
RTE news
Bishop of Clonfert John Kirby has denied an Irish Times report that he knew or suspected that a priest he moved following allegations of child abuse continued to abuse children.
Bishop Kirby said: “Contrary to what is stated in today’s Irish Times, I am not aware of an acknowledgement by ‘Priest A’ that he abused any child subsequent to October 1990, the date when I first learned of his sexual abuse of a child.”
The bishop said he had not received any complaints that ‘Priest A’ has abused a child in either of the parishes he was transferred to.
He said: “I have neither knowledge nor suspicion that ‘Priest A’ abused a child in either of the parishes of Kiltormer or Creagh subsequent to October 1990.”
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