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A former Catholic archbishop has told the High Court he had sexual experiences with a number of other people while he was a bishop in Nigeria.
66-year-old Richard Burke from Tipperary is continuing his cross examination in his action for defamation against RTÉ in which he claims he was wrongly branded as a paedophile in a television documentary.
Mr Burke denies he had sex with a woman featured in the programme, Dolores Atwood, when she was 14. He claims she was 20 when they first had sex.
He told the court he had also “embraced and inappropriately touched” her sister after Ms Atwood had moved to Canada.
Mr Burke accepted in cross examination that his relationship with Dolores Atwood was not the only sexual relationship he had.
It was put to him by counsel for RTÉ Paul O’Higgins that he had relationship with a lot of others, numbering “in the teens”.
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