IRELAND
Irish Examiner
By Seán McCárthaigh
Monday, January 23, 2012
The European Court of Human Rights has awarded damages of €8,500 to a Dublin priest who was acquitted in 2010 of charges of sexually assaulting a teenager after it ruled his human rights had been violated by the excessive length in bringing the case to trial.
The ECHR has ordered the Government to pay the damages to Fr Maeliosa Ó Haullacháin after his legal team successfully argued that the 13 years and seven months taken to conclude proceedings against him represented a breach of the European Convention on Human Rights.
Fr O Haullacháin sought damages of €100,000 from the state and €48,000 in legal fees.
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