McGahon: TD’s letter to victim ‘a red herring’

IRA abuse victim Paudie McGahon has described former Sinn Féin TD Arthur Morgan’s 2009 letter advising him to go to the gardaí with his complaint as “a red herring” and “a diversion”.

Earlier this week, Mr McGahon, 40, from Louth, revealed he was raped by a senior republican in the 1990s and was later made face a ‘kangaroo court’ in 2002. He said he first brought the allegations to Sinn Féin councillor Pearse McGeough in 2002.

Yesterday, former Sinn Féin TD Arthur Morgan published a letter he wrote to Mr McGahon in April 2009 in which he said he hoped Mr McGahon would contact the Garda concerning the allegations.