Bill Kenneally claims he did not ruin victims' lives as 'they took 30 years to come forward'

Asked what gardaí would have found if they had searched his home in 1985, Kenneally replied 'handcuffs, might have been twine, scissors'

Bill Kenneally disputed giving alcohol and cash to 13- and 14-year-old boys amounted to 'ingratiating' himself to them, claiming he had done so with both boys and girls, and that such behaviour was 'just my nature'. Picture: Sasko Lazarov/ RollingNews.ie

Convicted child abuser Bill Kenneally has claimed he does not believe he ruined his victims' lives because "they took 30 years to come forward”.

Kenneally, a former basketball coach and administrator in his native Waterford, cut a sceptical figure throughout his second day of testimony before the commission of investigation into how the State had handled his crimes against at least 15 boys in the 1970s and 1980s at the time, disagreeing frequently with the prior testimony of his victims.