Campaigner denies involvement in case

THE ultra-conservative Catholic campaigner named in court as having backed the mother at the centre of the Roscommon incest scandal has denied she tried to intervene in the case.

Mine Bean Uí Chribín, a long time pro-life and anti-divorce lobbyist opposed to the modern Catholic catechism, said it was “laughable” to hear herself described as being from a “Catholic right-wing organisation” and insisted she had no involvement in the accused woman’s legal battles.

Bean Uí Chribín, a postmistress in Santry, Dublin, was referred to in court by childcare manager, Paddy Gannon, who said he was contacted by her in 2000 around the time the health board had brokered an arrangement with the unnamed mother to remove her six abused children from her care.