BISHOP TO WELCOME BACK DEFAMED AHASCRAGH PRIEST

Date Published: 07-Oct-2011

Bishop of Elphin, Dr. Christopher Jones will attend mass in Ahascragh this Sunday morning to welcome Fr. Kevin Reynolds back to his ministry.

The priest was obliged to step aside from his ministry after a RTE Primetime Investigations programme last May, which claimed he had raped a girl in Kenya and fathered her child in 1982.

Fr. Reynolds had consistently denied the allegations and yesterday, RTE unreservedly apologised for broadcasting what it says were baseless, untrue allegations without foundation.

Bishop Jones and the Superior General of the Mill Hill Missionaries will attend the mass at 10am on Sunday at St. Cuan's Church in Ahascragh.