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	Family Disputes Woman's Memoir of Abuse The Washington Times [Ireland] September 19, 2006 http://washingtontimes.com/upi/20060919-100432-1808r.htm The family of an Irish woman who wrote a best-selling memoir detailing years of abuse at the hands of her father and the Catholic church says she made it up. Seven of Kathy O'Beirne's siblings held a news conference in Dublin on Tuesday to denounce her book, published in Ireland as "Kathy's Story" and in Britain as "Don't Ever Tell," The Scotsman reported. In the book, O'Beirne says that her father abused her from the time she was 7 and that she bore a child after being raped in the Magdalene Laundries, institutions run by an order of nuns for "fallen women." "The anger and frustration we feel at seeing our father branded worldwide as a horrific abuser is indescribable," said Mary O'Beirne, a younger sister. "The allegations are untrue. We can't go on living like this, we can't eat, we can't sleep." The siblings also produced O'Beirne's birth certificate, saying that her claim to have been adopted was false. The Sisters of Our Lady of Charity, which ran the laundries, has threatened legal action. Women who were with O'Beirne in other institutions say her claim about the laundries is untrue.
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