Convicted paedophile Bill Kenneally being brought from the Hickson Commission hearings at the Dublin Dispute Resolution Centre this week. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaillat the Hickson Commission of Investigation, which is investigating the response of the State and other bodies to his crimes.
Michael D Higgins’s dogs, Cillian Murphy’s blue eyes and Enya’s voice: Patrick Freyne’s 30 real Irish icons The paedophile’s words drew frequent gasps of anger and exasperation from his victims, whose lives he refused to accept he had ruined. Kenneally cast doubt on their recollections frequently. Previously Kenneally had been a distant figure on the stand in a big courtroom. This week, he was sitting just metres from the people he had abused.
“He hates me. He sees me as the person who started off all this. I knew he would say something negative about me,” Mr Clancy added. “It was devastating to hear him say it was consensual. I ended up having to leave the room. I had to calm myself down. I came back in then. It was the lack of respect, the giggling, the laughing, the sneering, it was just repugnant.”
“Nobody from the Garda ever shared that information,” he said. “That was a bombshell and that’s why we are being delayed for another day because the Garda barrister wants to speak to him about that.”
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