IRELAND
Herald
BY BARRY DUGGAN – 28 MAY 2014
THE journalist who presented the infamous RTE Mission to Prey’ which seriously defamed a parish priest has returned to airwaves with the State broadcaster.
Aoife Kavanagh resigned from RTE after Prime Time Investigates’ falsely accused Galway priest, Fr Kevin Reynolds, of raping and abandoning a child he fathered.
The allegations were made in May 2011 and Fr Reynolds denied all allegations but agreed to step down from his ministry in Ahascragh, Co Galway, while the claims were investigated. He undertook the paternity test, which came back negative.
SETTLEMENT
Fr Reynolds – who worked in Kenya for 33 years – went to the High Court and accepted an out-of-court settlement from RTE for an undisclosed sum believed to be in the region of €1m.
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