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Fri 11 Nov 2009Restored priestly duties to self-confessed child abuser
ARCHBISHOP KEVIN McNAMARA:ARCHBISHOP KEVIN McNamara was one of four archbishops who handled child sex abuse complaints "badly". He did not report his knowledge of abuse to gardaí during his 1985-1987 tenure.
After initially suspending Fr Carney in April 1985, he agreed to allow him back if he attended a hospital in Waterford for alcohol treatment, though the priest did not have a drink problem. The problem was that this priest, who initially wanted to foster children, was a serial abuser.
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