Eamonn Casey

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Eamonn Casey (24 April 1927 – 13 March 2017) was an Irish Catholic priest who served as bishop of Galway and Kilmacduagh in Ireland from 1976 to 1992. He was appointed Chairman of Trócaire following the organisation’s establishment in 1973, where he shone a spotlight on situations of injustice overseas, particularly in El Salvador, South Africa, Mozambique, Uganda, Malawi and the Philippines. His resignation in 1992, after it was revealed he had had an affair with an American woman, Annie Murphy, was a significant event in the history of the Irish Catholic Church. Casey fraudulently made covert payments for the boy's maintenance from diocesan funds. Subsequently, several women accused Casey of sexual abuse, with two receiving compensation following a High Court trial. One of the women, his niece Patricia Donovan, alleged in 2019 that she was repeatedly raped by Casey when she was five years old and was sexually assaulted by him for more than a decade. Casey was removed from public ministry...

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