Psychiatrist denies claiming that convicted paedophile Bill Kenneally was unlikely to reoffend

A former Waterford Fianna Fáil TD also denied that he had told a former RTÉ reporter that he had been asked to keep details of the Kenneally case away from the public

Bill Kenneally, a former basketball coach who was first convicted in 2016, is currently serving a 19-year sentence for the indecent assault of 15 boys in Waterford between the years 1979 and 1980.

A commission of investigation into the case of convicted paedophile Bill Kenneally has heard from a psychiatrist who denied concluding in 2001 that Kenneally was unlikely to re-offend.

Dr Richard Horgan, a retired psychiatrist with the HSE, told the commission that to the best of his recollection he had never even met Bill Kenneally in 2001.