Defamed Cleric Takes Time to Digest Report

Irish Times
May 5, 2012

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2012/0505/1224315654017.html

FR REYNOLDS'S RESPONSE: FR KEVIN Reynolds, a popular parish priest in Ahascragh in Co Galway, will preside over a First Holy Communion service tomorrow. It is the same service at which he was secretly filmed by an RTÉ crew last year.

In a statement his solicitor, Robert Dore, said they had expected the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland report to be published next week. "We will need time to consider its contents carefully before making any comment," he said.

"In the interim Fr Reynolds is presiding over this year's Communion Mass in his parish in Ahascragh this weekend and is entirely focused on it.

"Out of respect to the privacy of the children, their families and all of his parishioners, he would ask all elements of the media not to interfere with him or them in any way.

"He does not wish to be interviewed nor does he wish to make a statement. When we have had the opportunity to digest the report, I will make further comment."