Bishop Eamon Casey - Child Abuse Allegations

A little web searching indicates he had no known personal wealth and the money paid to Annie Murphy towards raising their son Peter, was taken from diocesan funds.

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/religion-and-beliefs/how-bishop-eamonn-casey-s-fall-from-grace-came-to-light-1.3009016

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/16/most-rev-eamonn-casey-obituary

He was known for his love of fast cars - I’d say the diocesan funds were likely treated as “walking around money” when he was Bishop

The way the discussion has turned here shows that no one here has any much memory of that time.

Its very sad that these allegations only come out 30/40 years later.

You want these people to be punished in their lifetime, though I dont know how much comfort that would or wouldnt bring to victims.

When you see the footage of him in his pomp at the time of the popes visit…. all powerful.

Yes I agree, I think when his scandal broke in the early 90s it slightly pre-dated the tsunami of church scandals so would have been seen in a different light anyway.

I remember a lot of talk subsequently on how he had relocated to Mexico and was quietly doing great work over there….a spin was being put on it.

Doubt if Christy Moore will be singing that song any time soon.

I agree 100%, we gained independence and handed the country to the church on a platter. I have no doubt that the state itself actively protected the church in some of their actions.

It's back in the news because a new TV documentary has been made about it and is on RTE One tonight after the news. Possibly it may contain more information than has been in previous media reports. The journalist/ documentary maker Anne Sheridan has been working on the case for some years.

yes I see that advertised and one of his alleged victims interviewed in one of the Irish newspapers - looks like it will be a lot more in depth than previous reports

Well, convincing children they are going to burn in hell forever unless they conform is an unspeakable cruelty.

That's quite a good point, small example of this, when I was 8 or 9, so mid 90s, the local priest arrived into my class one day looking for volunteers to do a reading at mass that Sunday, when nobody came forward he asked the teacher to recommend somebody, teacher points to me and the priests says sure you'll do a reading won't ya, I refused and he asked why and I told him I didn't believe in god, his face turned beetroot purple, he was incredulous and leaves the class.

Fast forward to the end of the school day and I arrive home to find said priest sitting at the kitchen table with my grandmother. He had gone to the school office, asked the secretary for my address and turned up to demand my nanny make me do a reading.

Thankfully, my nanny is a tough inner city woman who has absolutely no respect for the church after seeing what they can do up close during her childhood and she has no problem running the priest from the house but it was just a small example of the bigger issue, an organisation that thinks it can trample all over people's wishes to get what they want.

Eamonn Casey is the epitome of evil. Absolute scum. There needs to be a root and branch outing of everyone who covered up for him.

Jesus Christ. Sent him off to Ecuador. What he got up to over there is beyond the imagination, of course. Set up a hospital… another Jimmy Saville.

Brilliant story - thanks for posting it.