April 24, 1927 - Eamon Casey

Eamonn Casey (24 April 1927 – 13 March 2017) was an Irish Catholic priest who served as bishop of Galway and Kilmacduagh in Ireland from 1976 to 1992. He was appointed Chairman of Trócaire following the organisation’s establishment in 1973, where he shone a spotlight on situations of injustice overseas, particularly in El Salvador, South Africa, Mozambique, Uganda, Malawi and the Philippines.

Subsequently, several women accused Casey of sexual abuse, with two receiving compensation following a High Court trial. One of the women, his niece Patricia Donovan, alleged in 2019 that she was repeatedly raped by Casey when she was five years old and was sexually assaulted by him for more than a decade. Writing in The Irish Times, historian Diarmaid Ferriter described Casey as "a sexist hypocrite", The Herald reports that he "liked fast cars... and was banned for drink driving", and numerous outlets reported on his fraudulent use of church funds amounting to hundreds of thousands of pounds.

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