Woman says sorry to priest over false sex abuse claims

A woman has apologised in the High Court to a priest she falsely accused of abusing her.

The court was told Eileen Culloty, who lives beside the presbytery in Currow, Killarney, Co Kerry, wrote a letter to the Bishop of Kerry in which she made untrue allegations against Fr Liam O’Brien. She repeated the allegations to the Garda, HSE, and Personal Injury Assessment Board.

She had also disrupted a funeral Mass at which the priest was officiating.