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Irish Catholic Church should take heed of Australian report

Second Reading Fr Kevin Hegarty In the last two decades the skeletons in the cupboard of the Irish Catholic Church tumbled out to reveal the Magdalene Laundries, the mother and baby homes and abuse of children. It was followed by cover-ups that have ...

07 Jul 2020 at 09:00

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Man tried to coerce two girls (13) into car on St Patrick’s Day

SCENE Two 13-year-old girls were coerced to get into a car close to Ballyhaunis Train Station. The case was heard in court last week. Pic: Google Family of one girl found car and surrounded it before man emerged brandishing a knife TWO 13-year-old ...

26 Mar 2019 at 12:39

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Louisburgh man raped and abused stepdaughter

A former soldier has been given a 12-year jail term for the rape and abuse of his stepdaughter. The girl was aged around six when the man, Thomas Mullarney (61) of Cahir, Louisburgh, first began abusing her. He continued to abuse her regularly ...

22 Oct 2019 at 11:36

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Wee ones and the web

DANGERS ABOUND The internet and social media can be platforms for bullying, violent imagery, porn and sexual predation. Parenting Deirdre Freney All generations face the consequences of internet exposure these days. Life online impacts our ...

26 Mar 2019 at 17:12

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‘You destroyed my life, for your own sick pleasure’

SPEAKING OUT Sophia Murphy speaks to the media as she left the Central Criminal Court last week after her father, John Murphy, was sentenced to 18 years in prison for regularly sexually assaulting her from the age of three. Sophia gave up ...

24 Jul 2018 at 09:51

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Man sentenced to 15 years in ‘depraved’ daughter-rape case

A man who began to rape his seven-year-old daughter after her mother died, and continued to sexually assault her for four more years, was sentenced to 15 years in jail yesterday. Last February a jury convicted a 47-year-old man of ...

24 Apr 2018 at 12:09

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Castlebar paedophile with schoolgirl fetish described as ‘pure evil’

Ann Healy A paedophile with a fetish for young girls in school uniform, used threats of violence and blackmail to sexually abuse one such schoolgirl over a two-year period. Agricultural contractor Alan Feehily (27) from Milebush, ...

06 Feb 2018 at 10:08

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Men plead guilty to possession of child-porn images

TWO men pleaded guilty to separate charges of the possession of child pornography at last week’s sitting of Castlebar Circuit Criminal Court. Anthony Woodley pleaded guilty to the single charge of possession of child pornography ...

06 Feb 2018 at 11:19

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Little fingers, big cyberspace

Today, kids’ minds are struggling to make sense of everything from appearance ideals to sex and violence, as well as direct bullying and solicitation Ciara Moynihan The news has been full of horror stories about children being ...

13 Feb 2018 at 14:41

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Abused daughter ‘paralysed with fear’ of father

‘BETRAYAL OF TRUST’ A man was sentenced at Castlebar Courthouse for sexually abusing his daughter. A MAYO woman who was sexually abused by her father described how she was ‘easy prey’ for him and that he preyed on her ‘both ...

23 Oct 2018 at 10:56

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‘You are a predator, a master manipulator’

Father receives four years for ‘regularly’ raping daughter while mother was at work Sonya McLean and Fiona Ferguson A 78-year-old man who regularly raped his daughter while her mother was at work has been jailed for four ...

19 Jun 2018 at 11:57

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Mayo man found guilty of indecent assault on boy in 1978

A MAYO man was found guilty of five counts of indecent assault against a boy during the summer of 1978, when the victim was eleven years old. A horrific account of what occurred was given by the victim during the ...

09 Oct 2018 at 10:58

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