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	Parishioners' Outrage at Actions of Shamed Cleric By Gemma Murray News Letter [Ireland] June 15, 2007 http://www.newsletter.co.uk/news?articleid=2957374 Former parishioners of Fr Jeremiah McGrath last night told of their outrage that the cleric had brought a convicted paedophile into their community. Billy Adams surfaced in Rosslea in May 2004 after his release from serving a prison sentence for the rape of an eight-year-old girl. Locals in Rosslea told of their disgust that McGrath brought him to the local primary school, where McGrath had been chairman of the Board of Governors. In a statement last night, the Council for Catholic Maintained Schools said at no time had McGrath and Billy Adams been left alone in the presence of children. McGrath took over as parish priest of Rosslea in August 2003, having served there for more than a decade. A Kerry man and a member of the missionary orders, the Kiltegan Fathers, he spent many years before that working in Nigeria. According to reports, McGrath was known to like betting on horses - but no-one knew he bet more than £20,000 on a single race. Yesterday, his former parishioners said they were shocked and disgusted by his involvement in child abuse. They said McGrath lived frugally in the parochial house.
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