Priest facing indecent assault trial gets heckled

A RETIRED priest was verbally abused as he left a court after being returned for trial on two counts of indecently assaulting two teenage girls in Co Cork in the 1980s.

Fr Daniel Duane, aged 73, a former priest in the Diocese of Cloyne, and with an address at the Presbytery, Cecilstown, Mallow, appeared at Mallow District Court where Judge Eamon O’Brien was told that books of evidence have been served in both cases.

There is one count of assault in each book.