Category Archive for : ‘IRELAND’

October 19, 2019
Alan Dawson
Business Insider
 
 

Conor McGregor is reportedly being investigated by Irish police over a second sexual assault in Dublin, the New York Times reports citing anonymous “people familiar with the matter.”

A spokesperson for the former UFC champion denies the allegation.

“Conor McGregor is frequently the subject of rumors,” a publicist for McGregor told The Times. “He emphatically denies any report accusing him of sexual assault.”

A woman in her 20s reportedly said she was assaulted last week near a Dublin pub while in a parked vehicle, The Times says. The police have not

The Catholic Church in Ireland, rocked for a decade by sex scandals, made its biggest admission yet yesterday, saying 102 of its Dublin priests, past and present, are suspected of abusing children.

(Dublin, Ireland)

Church officials confirmed yesterday that Pope John Paul II has defrocked two priests convicted of sexually abusing children in Ireland, an unprecedented move in this predominantly Catholic nation.  The church declined to identify either man, but only two priests from the Ferns Diocese have been convicted of such abuse: Donal Collins, who was sentenced to four years in 1998 for abusing several boys, and James Doyle, who received a one year suspended sentence in 1990 for abusing one boy.  The most notorious priest, the Rev. Sean Fortune, committed suicide in

The Rev. Patrick Francis Magee, the 63 year old pastor of a Catholic church in Bay Head, New Jersey, was arrested while on vacation in Ireland.  Authorities in Ireland arrested the pastor on charges he sexually abused a child more than 30 years ago.  He was charged with committing an act of gross indecency on or towards a child sometime between 1965 and 1969.  He appeared in court on New Year’s Eve and was ordered to surrender his passport and report to police twice a week.  He has another hearing

Cardinal Desmond Connell, the leader of Ireland’s 4 million Catholics, apologized for the unspeakable harm inflicted by pedophile clergymen as alleged victims picketed outside, demanding his resignation.  He also sought God’s forgiveness and healing at a Mass honoring the man who founded the Christian Brothers religious order, which is embroiled in the unfolding sex-abuse scandal in the predominantly Catholic country.  Among those attending the

ceremony was Bishop Eamonn Walsh, appointed by the Vatican on Saturday to run Ireland’s southeast diocese of Ferns after its popular bishop, Brendan Comiskey, resigned.  Comiskey

Cardinal Desmond Connell, the leader of Ireland’s 4 million Catholics, apologized yesterday for the unspeakable harm inflicted by pedophile clergymen as alleged victims picketed outside, demanding his resignation.  He also sought God’s forgiveness and healing at a Mass honoring the man who founded the Christian Brothers religious order, which is embroiled in the unfolding sex-abuse scandal in the predominantly Catholic country.  Among those attending yesterday’s ceremony was Bishop Eamonn Walsh, appointed by the Vatican on Saturday to run Ireland’s southeast diocese of Ferns after its popular bishop, Brendan Comiskey, resigned