Accounts of abuse within the Church, including excerpts from the Ferns and Ryan Reports

 - Oliver O'Grady

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qamIJWkKi0.
https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/sick-priest-oliver-ogrady-still-3740314
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndBchfFDh8Q


-Brenden Smyth
https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/fr-brendan-smyth-confession-i-had-hundreds-of-child-sex-victims-31321795.html

( Smyth told a doctor in 1994: "Over the years of religious life it could be that I have sexually abused between 50 and 100 children. That number could even be double, or perhaps even more.")

-Malachy Finnegan
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/religion-and-beliefs/fr-malachy-finnegan-a-child-abuser-and-his-victims-1.3428512 -The Ferns report
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ferns-report-executive-summary-1.510449
https://industrialmemories.ucd.ie/assets/thefernsreportoctober2005.pdf
4.2.6 -  James doyle started abusing since he was in secondary school
4.3.1 - Edward page 79
4.4.6 - Deborah page 84/85
4.5.1 - Stephen page 86

-The Ryan Report
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commission_to_Inquire_into_Child_Abuse
It was started in 1999 and published in 2009

-Released Names
https://www.buzz.ie/news/list-80-irish-paedophile-priests-published-online-296587

Jeremy was a student in 5t Peter's boarding school whist James Doyle was a senior pupil there and during his first few years as a seminarian. Jeremy was about four years James Doyle's junior. He recalled lying in his bed one evening when James Doyle came into his cubicle and started to fondle him. He was deeply disturbed by this but felt he could tell no-one. He -said he had admired and respected James Doyle until then but this episode had destroyed that. He stated that James Doyle was not drunk at the time of the alleged incident.

Edward was an altar boy in a parish in Wexford in the mid 1970s when Fr Alpha was appointed curate there. He made a statement to Garda Tom Murphy in November 1995, outlining sexual abuse by Fr· Alpha from the summer of 1974 when he was 15 years of age .. He stated that Fr Alpha asked him to attend his house to help with parish work, especially when Fr Alpha was on duty. On the pretext of trying on swimming trunks, Fr Alpha encouraged Edward to take off all of his clothes. Eventually Fr Alpha lay on top of him and, as they both lay on the bed naked, masturbation took place.

 Edward stated that he felt sorry for Fr Alpha and let him lie on top of him on his bed for approximately 15 or 20 minutes. Edward visited Fr Alpha's room in his house at least three times a week .. The abuse, as alleged above, happened over a four or five year period mostly in the evening time. After some time Edward began to realise that this was wrong. He stated that Fr Alpha brought him on holidays on three occasions and. on each holiday he was sexually abused by him. In the spring of 1980 Fr Alpha's advances towards him ceased. In 1995 Edward made a statement to the Gardai. Through the Gardai he also made contact with the Diocesan Delegate, Fr Cosgrave. On 31 October 1997, Bishop Comiskey wrote to Edward indicating a willingness to meet him and confinning that a church investigation was still ongoing. They met in November 1997. Fr Alpha vehemently denied any improper behaviour between himself and Edward. He confirmed that they had been on holidays with his, Fr Alpha's, brothers, but was quite adamant that nothing untoward occurred. He also said that he first became acquainted with Edward in May 1977 when Edward was already aged 18 years. He affirmed that he never had any sexual relationship with Edward either as a boy or·anadult. In May 1997 and again in June 2003 following further allegations, a decision was taken by the DPP not to proceed with a criminal charge against Fr Alpha and he remained in ministry until he stepped aside in 2002 at the request of the Apostolic Administrator. 

Deborah 

It started when I was five years of age in the mid 1970s. It continued for a number of years and when I was seven years of age he tried to…. 

He was a regular visitor to my home, and stayed overnight. He would sometimes sleep in my bed; if I was already asleep I would not be moved.

I had a troubled and unstable adolescence which continued into my twenties. I blame this on the abuse I suffered from Him. 

I committed suicide in 2002, aged 31.

Stephen was a boarder in St Peter's in the 1970s and alleged sexual,abuse by Sean Fortune who was a seminarian there at the time. Stephen was 13 years .old when the abuse started. Inappropriate touching and sexually explicit conversations led to oral sex and masturbation and eventually, after 3 or 4 months, to full and violent rape. The first such rape occurred in a shower cubicle in St Peter's and subsequently five or six incidents occurred in a bedroom in the College. Sean Fortune made Stephen swear on a bible not to tell anyone and warned him that if he did, he would be expelled from St Peter's which would cause great hurt to his parents. Close to the end of the school year, Stephen told the principal of St Peter's of the abuse. The school Principal reacted angrily to what Stephen said and refused to believe him, telling him that Sean Fortune was going to be a good priest and that if he persisted in saying those things about him, he would be thrown out of the college. Stephen dreaded going back to the college the following year. However, no further abuse occurred and he had no further contact with Sean Fortune and only minimal contact with the Principal. Stephen told the Inquiry that he continued to be affected by what had happened to him in his early days in school. He has now started counselling and is hopeful that that will help. Stephen contacted the Diocese in March 2003 and is pursuing a civil claim against Bishop Eamonn Walsh and the Diocese of Ferns.