IRELAND
The Journal
BY GREG HARKIN – 17 MARCH 2014
A RETIRED Dublin schoolteacher has spoken of her heartache after her twin brother, a parish priest, was falsely accused of indecent assault.
Fr Eugene Boland (67) returned to his ministry at the weekend, four years after the allegations were made against him and more than 18 months after a jury took an hour to clear him on five charges.
St Mary’s Church in Killyclogher, just outside Omagh in Co Tyrone, was packed with 900 parishioners as Fr Boland returned to ministry, just days after being cleared to do so by church authorities in Rome.
The priest, originally from Moville in Co Donegal, wept as he hugged family and friends.
“This should never have happened,” Fr Eugene’s twin sister Aine told the Herald after the Saturday night Mass.
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