Disgraced Bishop Eamon Casey was a 'sexual predator', according to new RTÉ documentary

Disgraced Bishop Eamon Casey was a 'sexual predator', according to new RTÉ documentary

The RTÉ documentary will reveal that more than €100,000 was paid by the Limerick diocese to one of Bishop Eamon Casey’s accusers, with the current Bishop of Limerick Brendan Leahy expressing his 'deep sorrow and regret to anyone who has been wounded by clerical abuse, including the people referred to in this documentary'. Picture: John Carlos/Photocall Ireland

Disgraced Bishop Eamon Casey was a “sexual predator” according to a new documentary investigating complaints of childhood abuse which have been levelled at him.

The documentary, Bishop Casey’s Buried Secrets, will be broadcast on Monday evening on RTÉ and will reveal how the Church received four separate complaints of childhood sexual abuse against Bishop Casey, along with one further “child safeguarding concern”.

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