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	Family to Dispute Author's Abuse Claims Ireland Online [Ireland] September 19, 2006 http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=252706845&p=z5z7x7756 The family of Dublin-born author Kathy O'Beirne is due to hold a press conference today to dispute claims made in her best-selling autobiography Kathy's Story. The book claims to be a true-life story detailing more than a decade of horrific sexual and physical abuse in six different Irish institutions run by religious orders. Ms O'Beirne names her father as one of her abusers, an accusation that is strongly disputed by her family. They are due to issue a statement today defending the father and rejecting the abuse claims. The O'Beirnes say the book, which has sold 350,000 copies worldwide, is a cruel hoax being fraudulently marketed by British publishers as an autobiography.
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