Bill Kenneally denies getting 'special treatment' due to his prominent political family

The convicted child abuser said that the gardaí should have prosecuted him in the 1980s.

Bill Kenneally (pictured) said he had had his “arm twisted”, first by his cousin Brendan Kenneally who had been appointed a junior minister, to take on a city councillor position in Brendan’s stead in or around 1993, and that he would have been guaranteed the mayorship “within two years” if he had done so.

Convicted child abuser Bill Kenneally has said he doesn’t believe he received “special treatment” due to hailing from a prominent political family when avoiding prosecution for child abuse in the 1980s.

On Tuesday afternoon, Kenneally told the commission of investigation into the handling of his abuse by State agencies prior to his conviction that it “wouldn’t be unusual for there to be a warning first” in terms of someone who had transgressed in the way he did.