A Californian diocese has agreed to pay $3.75m (€2.8m) to a man abused as a child by the Tipperary priest who last week fled the US to return to Ireland.

A priest has fled back to his native Ireland just a day before he was due to give evidence relating to abuse he was accused of inflicting upon an altar boy in the 1980s.

PAEDOPHILE former Irish priest Oliver O’Grady is to receive almost $800 (€660) a month for the next 10 years from the very US diocese where he molested a number of children.

THE family of a Tipperary-born priest who was facing an allegation of sexual abuse in California have expressed their relief after an investigation cleared his name.

THE US diocese where paedophile priest Oliver O’Grady molested a number of children has been rocked by yet another scandal as another Irish priest has been accused of the same offence.