DUNDEE (SCOTLAND)
The Sunday Post
January 20, 2019
By Marion Scott & Janet Boyle
A Catholic priest who disappeared after being accused of abuse in Scotland and California has been tracked down in rural Ireland.
Father Joseph Dunne was found living with his sister in a bungalow just outside the village of Geashill, in County Offaly.
Asked about the allegations against him, the 77-year-old denied any wrong-doing, saying: “I’ve done nothing wrong. My conscience is clear.”
Last week we told how Dunne was sacked from his Glasgow parish in 1988 by the late Cardinal Thomas Winning, after complaints about inappropriate behaviour towards young girls.
But the police and other Catholic churches were not told and Dunne found a new church in Los Angeles before being accused again.
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