Former Fianna Fáil TD and Senator, Brendan Kenneally, a cousin of convicted child abuser Bill Kenneally, has again been giving evidence at a Commission examining the response of gardaí, politicians, clergy members, health board officials and others to the reported allegations about him.
A former Fianna Fáil TD and Senator, who is a cousin of the convicted child abuser Bill Kenneally, has again been giving evidence at a Commission established in 2018, to examine the response of gardaí, politicians, clergy members, health board officials and others to the reported allegations about him.
He also denied that he had done everything in his power to keep the abuse secret, including engaging a psychiatrist who had turned up late and met with Bill Kenneally for just 10 to 15 minutes. Asked by Barra McGrory Senior Counsel for a number of the victims, whether he should have enquired which gardaí this had been reported to, he said:"Perhaps I should have said that but I didn't."He also said he had not asked Monsignor Shine, an uncle of Bill Kenneally's, what he knew and that perhaps with hindsight he should have.
Brendan Kenneally told Ray Motherway, a barrister representing two other victims of Bill Kenneally, that he had had no reason to stay in his cousin's house. He said they met for basketball club events and for tournaments that took place just three or four times a year. He said juvenile tournaments would have usually involved leaving early in the morning and being back the same evening.
Brendan Kenneally was asked about a basketball tournament in Cork city in 1981 and said he had not found the programme relating to that event among a collection of sporting programmes at his home.
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