The damage done by falsely accusing an honourable man of child sexual abuse is even more devastating for him when the details are reported in a national newspaper with the largest circulation. And when it takes the gardai and the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) four years to decide that there is no case to answer, a financial settlement could never compensate a decent man for the gratuitous damage done to him. As a former government minister who had been admired as a schoolteacher for 30 years, Pat Carey’s distinguished career in public life was indelibly tainted by shocking and squalid lies.…

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