This items appears on the Independent Catholic News website (here) Irish broadcasters RTE have apologised without reservation for false accusing a missionary in Kenya of raping a woman.In a statement, the Irish Missionary Union has welcomed the fact that RTE “has settled the defamation against it and has apologised unreservedly for the defamation inflicted on [...]
Two school girls falsely accused by Marks and Spencer’s security staff
November 2, 2011 from Leave a Comment
Two schoolgirls were awarded over €10,500 each after being falsely accused of shoplifting when they agreed to help an old lady carry her shopping bags across a street. Barrister Conor Bowman told the Circuit Civil Court that Danielle Meehan (17) and Lauren Matthews (13) — who were innocent — were corralled by security men on [...]
Dance teacher charged with falsely accusing Louis Walsh of assault
July 7, 2011 from Leave a Comment
The following has been extracted from the Irish Times website here. A dance teacher has been charged with making a false accusation that he was groped by X-Factor judge Louis Walsh in the toilets of a Dublin nightclub. Leonard Watters (24), a father of two from Navan, Co Meath, of no fixed address, was arrested [...]
Boy wins Lidl defamation case after being wrongly accused of theft
July 30, 2010 from Leave a Comment
Boy wins Lidl defamation case after being accused of theft A five-year-old boy has won a defamation case against Lidl and been awarded £6,000 in damages after being falsely accused of stealing a packet of crisps. Tadhg Mooney was accused by a shop assistant at the supermarket chain of stealing in June 2009. Mooney, of [...]
Solicitor suing Gardai for falsely accusing him of abuse
February 11, 2010 from 2 Comments
A Limerick solicitor John Devane is suing the gardai, claiming he was falsely accused of sexual assault on a child after playing Santa at a school’s Christmas party. Mr Devane claimed in the High Court yesterday that the allegations that he assaulted a special needs child were part of “a witch hunt” against him. After [...]
Falsely accused Dublin Priest commended for his handling of the case
November 28, 2009 from Leave a Comment
A Dublin priest who was falsely accused of abuse has been commended for the manner in which he handled the case. Of the 46 cases of sexual abuse examined, only one priest was found to be falsely accused. In two other cases there were suspicions or concerns, but no actual complaint of child sexual abuse. [...]
The Commission of Investigation into abuse with Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin publish their report
November 27, 2009 from Leave a Comment
The Report by Commission of Investigation into the handling by Church and State authorities of allegations and suspicions of child abuse against clerics of the Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin is published today. The Commission came about because of the RTÉ Prime Time programme Cardinal Secrets, broadcast in October 2002. Produced by Mary Raftery, with Mick Peelo [...]
Religious orders defy call to pay more into child abuse compensation scheme
May 27, 2009 from Leave a Comment
There is a very interesting article in the Times (26th May 2009) by David Sharrock, Ireland Correspondent regarding the Catholic Church in Ireland’s refusal to increase the amount they are agreed to contribute towards the cost of compensating victims of alleged child abuse. The leader of the Catholic Church in Ireland has clashed with the religious orders [...]
L.O.V.E. respond to Ryan Report findings
May 23, 2009 from Leave a Comment
Following publication of the Ryan Report L.O.V.E. (Let Our Voices Emerge) have published the following statement. The charity ‘Let Our Voices Emerge’ held an AGM last night. While we have always voiced our support for the Religious Congregations through the years, on foot of what we see are unpreceedented revelations of records that the Catholic [...]
Ryan Commission publish their report
May 20, 2009 from Leave a Comment
The Ryan Commission have published their report into alleged historical abuse at religious institutions in Ireland. It makes grim reading with very little coverage of the extent to which any of the claims made were false. The full report can be downloaded here. View the Executive Summary in accessible HTML format. View the Commission Report in accessible HTML format. [...]
Victim of wrongful conviction in sex case to seek €1m damages
May 1, 2009 from Leave a Comment
The following is an extract fromm an article by Brian McDonald, Shane Phelan, and Tim Healy apeared in the Independent [Ireland) newspaper on Tuesday April 28 2009 A man whose conviction for sexually assaulting a young girl has been declared a miscarriage of justice is expected to seek up to €1m in compensation from the [...]
Bitter land feud behind wrongful sexual assault conviction [Eire]
February 14, 2009 from Leave a Comment
Neighbour convicted after girl concocted tale of brutal sexual assault now faces battle with DPP to get case declared a miscarriage of justice. Ireland has a long history of feuding over land, often with brutal consequences. John B Keane chronicled the murderous fall-out of one man’s hunger for land in The Field. Last week, the [...]
Christian Brother – not guilty
August 6, 2008 from
A Christian Brother has been acquitted, by direction of Judge Tony Hunt, of sexually assaulting boys 40 years ago in a Galway industrial school. Judge Hunt withdrew all 35 charges from the jury on day 11 of the trial at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court. His decision to direct that not guilty verdicts be returned on [...]
MOJO conference: A ripple of hope
April 22, 2008 from
The following article By Eamonn O’Neil appeared in the Obvserver on 21st April This morning in Glasgow city chamber’s historic banqueting hall – the place where Nelson Mandela received the freedom of the city in 1993 – the world’s first conference examining the post-exoneration treatment of the victims of the UK’s miscarriages of justice will [...]
Oh not another one !
March 27, 2008 from
The following article by Catherine Bennett appeared in the Observer on Sunday March 09 2008 on p31 of the Comment section.On the face of it, the exposure of Margaret B Jones, the latest contributor to the thriving phoney memoir genre, looks bad for aspiring liars. Penguin USA, which is now pulping her book, Love and Consequences, [...]
Convicted childminder relies on new evidence in her appeal
March 27, 2008 from
New evidence regarding shaken baby syndrome is being put forward in a campaign to clear a convicted childminder. Baby Maeve Sheppard, from Slough, died aged 11-months in the care of Iver Heath childminder Keran Henderson. In a case at Reading Crown Court, jurors found Mrs Henderson guilty, jailing her for three years in November. New medical [...]
Daily Telegraph question authenticity of Kathy’s Story
March 5, 2008 from
FACT members will be familiar with the controversy over Kathy O’Beirne’s 2005 memoir, Kathy’s Story: A Childhood Hell Inside the Magdalene Laundries. Now the Daily Telegraph have added to the debate. …. It was a childhood tale of woe that touched the public’s heart. Kathy O’Beirne’s 2005 memoir, Kathy’s Story: A Childhood Hell Inside the [...]
Feud between warring authors set to hot up
February 21, 2008 from
The following article by Foina Audley appeared in the Irish Post (here) on 20th February 2008.A controversial book penned by an Irish journalist claims to show a fellow author’s autobiographical tome to be full of false allegations, although she continues to stand by her story.Irish Daily Mail on Sunday journalist Hermann Kelly highlights the compensation culture [...]
Woman who falsely accused her father of rape given four year sentence
December 4, 2007 from
A Dublin woman has been jailed for four years for falsely claiming to the Rathmines Women’s Refuge that her father raped her. The woman, who can’t be named for legal reasons, was convicted in October of making the claims against her father who described her as being “bad from the day she was born”.The 35-year-old [...]
Calls for Centre for Victims of Abuse [Scotland]
November 23, 2007 from
A centre should be established to help former victims of abuse in children’s homes, a report has suggested. It also recommended a “national task group” to oversee services for children in care and residential homes. The recommendations came in an report commissioned by the previous Scottish Executive, into abuse in Scottish children’s homes between 1950 [...]
Advance Notice – Book Publication
October 17, 2007 from
Prefect Press have announced that Kathy‘s Real Story : A culture of false allegations will be published on 5th November 2007.Kathy‘s Real Story: A culture of false allegations exposed. Author: Hermann KellyThis is a compelling read and a shocking story, which begins with shame and ends with the triumph of an Irish family over false [...]
Falsely accused couple win first round in bid to get their family back
October 7, 2007 from Leave a Comment
The following article by Nick Pryer appeared in the Daily Mail on 6th October 2007 The couple who won a landmark legal battle to keep their baby son, after their first three children were forcibly adopted because of false allegations of child abuse, have won the first stage of their fight to get his siblings [...]
Falsely accused priest highlights abuse dilemma
July 2, 2007 from
The grotesque figure of Paul Anderson, convicted of making the false accusation that a priest buggered him, received a four-year sentence for his lies. Rightly so. His mendacity damaged not only the unfortunate priest who lived under the darkest of clouds for four years but this liar and failed extortionist also deeply hurt those who have [...]