'It was absolutely localised State collusion': Bill Kenneally abuse survivors speak out

Jason Clancy, Barry Murphy, Colin Power , Kevin Keating, and Paul Walsh outside Buswells Hotel on Tuesday. Picture: Stephen Collins/Collins

Survivors of child sex abuser Bill Kenneally have decried the derelictions of duty by State agencies revealed in a new report, claiming if they hadn’t occurred “we wouldn’t be here today”.

The final report of the South East Commission of Investigation into how the case of Kenneally was handled by organs of the State concluded that some of those bodies, notably An Garda Síochána, had handled revelations regarding the paedophile’s abuses in the 1980s very poorly.