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Today a book by an Irish author is scheduled for release in the UK. It's title: Kathy's Real Story: A Culture of False Allegations exposed. It's author, Herman Kelly, subjects a book by another Irish author to close scrutiny. The title of that book by Kathy O'Beirne is: Don't Ever Tell.

The publisher (Prefect Press) of Kathy's Real Story says in its blurb that O'Beirne's book 'alleged she was abused by her father, experimented upon in psychiatric hospital, raped by priests and then slammed up in a Magdalene Laundry where she had a baby at 14.' For those following the clerical abuse scandal - and who has not followed it? - these are the familiar elements of many horror stories appearing in the media about Catholic religious.

For the most part the media has accepted any and every accusation against Catholic clergy without challenge. Moreover, it is painfully clear that many high profile media people have used the clerical sexual abuse affair to give vent to their ingrained anti-religious bigotry. These people have no interest professionally and ideologically in subjecting accusations of clerical sexual abuse to scrutiny. The result has been perhaps the biggest smear campaign in media history, with many ordinary people forming the impression that most priests are paedophiles and are seeking at every opportunity to abuse pre-pubescent girls. One of the worst offenders in this smear campaign is 3AW's Derryn Hinch who once quipped that one should count the priests who are not guilty of sexual abuse rather than those that are.

I have continually pointed out that commentators like 3AW's Hinch and Mitchell do not even bother to get the basic facts rights: The incidence of abuse is no higher among Catholic clergy than in comparable institutions; surveys have shown that as little as one percent and no higher than four percent of Catholic clergy have been accused of abuse; that most often sexual abuse of children is by family or friends; that around ninety percent of clerical abuse cases concern homosexual priests abusing pubescent males.

As I have asked many times, what conclusion should one draw from the fact that ninety percent of two percent of clergy who abused children were homosexuals? It's not difficult mental arithmetic. Apart from the culpability of ignoring the above facts, Hinch and Mitchell and those like them - and there are many - would not dare make an issue of homosexuality. They know the homosexual juggernaut would destroyed them personally and professionally.

One point that Mitchell still doesn't get - which he illustrated yet again with his recent criticism of Pope Benedict - is that isolating the sexual impropriety of Catholic clergy is like treating the West's problem of youth violence as a problem only of black Brixton youth. Imagine the ignominy and opprobrium a radio host would suffer if he continually condemned the violence of Brixton youth as if violent youth existed no where else in the world.

It is, however, only since the news of the $660 million paid out by the Catholic Church in California to abuse victims that I have dared to raise the issues of motives and truth. Surely, I said, the media should examine circumstances in which such huge sums of money are involved. In any other public matter they would be all over it like a rash. It would be extraordinary if there was no funny business to be uncovered in the liberal access to $660 million.

While I have been in no position to test my suspicions, there are fortunately others. Irish journalist Herman Kelly is the first I know of to do the job. And he has produced a stunning book on all reports, showing Kathy O'Beirne's Don't Ever Tell to be a fraud from beginning to end. Most importantly he has raised the issue of fraud in this type of popular literature. I refer the reader to the links below for the full story and the debate raging in Ireland and the UK about such literature. I will finish here with a comment from one of the websites:

Kathy's Real Story is the finest hatchet job on a literary fraud and exposes the scandal of false allegations against Catholic religious induced by easy compo allied to a non-existent level of proof. Kelly has gathered an arsenal of documents and top grade witnesses who rip the accuser's tale to shreds and tells an even more remarkable story - the real one.

Kathy's Real Story is published in Ireland now - let the battle commence

Kathy's Real Story: a culture of false allegations exposed by Hermann Kelly to be published in UK on Monday May 5 2008.

“Kathy’s Real Story blows a hole in the hull of the ship that is misery literature. It shows that Kathy O’Beirne is not a victim, but a malicious perpetrator of false claims, who for easy lucre, has caused good and innocent people incredible pain.” Hermann Kelly

Book Back blurb of Kathy's Real Story

O'Beirne Family happy after High Court challenge

Letter of Mary O'Beirne (sister of Kathy) to editor of The Irish Daily Mail

Dear Sir,

On behalf of the O’Beirne family I wish to say thank your newspaper for your part in exposing the hurtful lies and baseless allegations made by our sister Kathy O’Beirne in her book 'Don’t Ever Tell.'

We greatly appreciate your decision in 2006 and 2007 to print news articles exposing her school records, which alone show her story to be untrue.

What our sister has done is defame many innocent people with an eye to making money - nothing else. If people wish to know the startling truth about what Kathy O’Beirne was really up to in her life they should read the book, ‘Kathy’s Real Story’ by one of your journalist Hermann Kelly, he who she tried to beat up on TV3 before Christmas. ‘Kathy’s Real Story’ will open their eyes to the malice and greed behind her fabricated stories.

In last week’s Daily Mail, Kathy is quoted as being happy, vindicated, and not bothered if the case went ahead - all bluff of course.

Last week at the High Court, we had a large number of powerful witnesses lined up in court to rip her story to threads. Seeing this, our sister agreed to vacate the family home within six months that it be sold and divided among the nine siblings. - Why would she be happy about vacating a house she has lived in for over a decade?

This is a major climb down on her part, and it shall not be the last until our father is fully vindicated.

This matter is not yet over because we shall not rest until everyone who read her claims is made aware of the real story. Many thanks for your paper’s part in ripping down the wicked web she weaves.

Yours sincerely,

Mary O’Beirne - O’Gorman.
Clondalkin,
Dublin 22

25/2/08

FALLING BACK ON THE USUAL SMEAR
In a clash on Irish television, Kathy O'Beirne could only shout abuse at Herman Kelly making all too plain the tactics the bigoted and unscrupulous resort to when unmasked. It's a tactic that is used to close down debate and shut people up who dare to question the one-sided reporting of the world's media - reporting rarely mentioning that the majority of cases of clerical sexual abuse concerned homosexual priests abusing pubescent boys.

The evidence shows that those priests had long jettisoned their Catholic faith and the teaching of the Church, thus compounding their evil actions by the most disgusting imposture. The fact that O'Beirne manufactured a story of male-on-female abuse shows just how much she was exploiting the unquestioned reporting. It's a tribute to Herman Kelly that he had the courage to go ahead with his expose and face the possibility of the worst type of retaliation.

5 May 2008

When are 3AW's top-rating radio hosts going to put their anti-religious prejudice aside and look at the facts?

Kathy's Real Story is published in Ireland now - let the battle commence

O'Beirne Family happy after High Court challenge