Brendan Curran, Sinn Fein, Newry, Child Abuse

Brendan Curran accuses Sinn Fein of covering up priest's abuse

Following on from allegations that Sinn Fein/PIRA forced two young families out of South-Belfast to protect Paedophile Priest Brendan Smyth, Senior Republican Brendan Curran says he was told to stay silent about another Paedophile Priest by his Sinn Fein peers.

Brendan Curran Sinn Fein

A former leading IRA man, who was a security chief for X Factor boss, Simon Cowell has accused Sinn Fein of helping to cover up the sexual abuse of "hundreds" of schoolboys by a now-deceased priest.

4 year old Aine Raped by Sinn Fein/PIRA

Mairia Cahill Raped by Sinn Fein/PIRA

Paudie McGahon Raped by Sinn Fein/PIRA

Mary Lou Mc Donald TD

Mary Lou McDonald has continued to support Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams TD, although is it clear at this point that Gerry Adams TD has concealed the rape of many children including his 4 year old niece Aine.

Brendan Curran

Brendan Curran, a former Irish Army-trained sniper - who was jailed aged 18 in 1973 for 15 years for attempting to murder a British soldier - made the sensational claims as he announced his resignation from Newry and Mourne District Council at a meeting last week.

Sinn Fein Child Abuse Cover-up

Mr Curran said he was prevented 10 years ago from exposing the allegations by a leading well-known Sinn Fein figure.

Speaking to the Sunday Independent after the tumultuous council meeting, Mr Curran said: "This priest is dead now, but he was in every school in the Newry area for years and abused children in every one of them. People have been coming forward."

"I raised it with the Republican movement 10 years ago and was told to drop it; it was a negative story, to drop it; it was a negative issue."

Mr Curran added: "The leadership was aware of this being raised."

Gerry Adams TD

Gerry Adams TD like a blind-folded Dog fails to see the depth of Evil in which he has been engaged, this Evil ranging from the ordering of mass murder to the concealment both by himself personally and his organisation of what now appears to have been thousands of children raped by Sinn Fein/PIRA members and others closely associated with the Sinn Fein/PIRA organisation such as Paedophile priests.

Gerry Adams TD described in one word: Deceitful = guilty of or involving deceit; deceiving or misleading others, dishonest, untruthful, mendacious, insincere, false, disingenuous, untrustworthy, unscrupulous, unprincipled, two-faced, Janus-faced, duplicitous, double-dealing, underhanded, crafty, cunning, sly, scheming, calculating, treacherous, Machiavellian, sneaky, tricky, foxy, crooked

Mr Curran's fellow councillors were completely taken aback by his bombshell statement.

Witnesses told the Sunday Independent that rival SDLP and Unionist politicians applauded Mr Curran after he finished speaking.

Local UKIP councillor, Henry Reilly, wrote on his Facebook page minutes after the meeting: "Absolutely incredible scenes in the Council Chamber tonight - Cllr Brendan Curran announced his resignation and made very damaging allegations against former Sinn Fein colleagues. He alleged that he had advised Sinn Fein of a paedophile priest who had abused 100's of children in Newry and was instructed not to disclose this information. He alleged that local republicans referred to murdered Mum of 10 Jean McConville as an executed Tout. It was an extraordinary event and the allegations will be very damaging for Sinn Fein."

However, a source close to the ex-Ulster Unionist said: "We saw it. It was unreal, boy. We've never witnessed anything like it, in all our lives."

The day after the council meeting, Mr Curran told the local Newry Reporter newspaper that he was forced to "drop the issue".

He did not state if he had been personally threatened after making his explosive claims, or who told him to "drop" the matter.

Mr Curran told the newspaper that the local Sinn Fein community had been dominated by a "small, domineering clique who try to remove opposition by gang mentality".

Sinn Fein told the local paper: "If Brendan Curran or anyone else has any information regarding sexual abuse, past or present, they have a responsibility to bring this to either the PSNI or An Garda Siochana."

Sinn Fein did not respond to specific queries from this newspaper relating to Mr Curran's claims at the time of going to print.

The Police Service of Northern Ireland this weekend confirmed it would investigate Mr Curran's claims.

Chief Superintendent George Clarke said: "We cannot comment on individual cases. However, we will treat all allegations seriously and investigate them fully. We would encourage anyone with allegations to come forward and contact police."

Mr Curran represented Sinn Fein for 30 years on the Newry council before he left the party in 2013 after complaining of "isolation and bullying".

He had been synonymous with the Provisional IRA and the Sinn Fein leadership of Gerry Adams for decades.

However, the former Sinn Fein councillor is now considering contesting the forthcoming Westminster election.

His main rival is expected to be former All-Ireland-winning footballer Justin McNulty, who is standing on the SDLP ticket in Newry and Armagh.

The ex-Provo boasts openly of his IRA connections on his Facebook page, on which he says he studied at the "Long Kesh Univeristy of Freedom".

After his release from jail in 1980, Mr Curran moved into politics for the party, and in the 1990s, headed up the party's move into the security industry.

In the recent past, he has been a certified bodyguard for the X Factor's Simon Cowell, Amanda Holden, Ant and Dec and David Walliams, and Boyzone's Ronan Keating and other top celebrities, setting up his own Pro-Tec Safety and Events Company Ltd.

Since his move into the security business, Mr Curran has provided security to some of the biggest artists in the movie and music world and is pictured on his Facebook page astride a massive, stg£30k Harley-Davidson. In 2010, he was pictured acting as glamour model Jordan's bodyguard during a book signing at Eason's in Belfast. The ex-IRA man also provided security at the 2010 funeral of the late RTE presenter Gerry Ryan.

His security firm also helped to marshall the St Patrick's Day parade in Dublin last Tuesday.

Supreme Court Judgements 2015, McLaughlins, Bank of Scotland, ACC Bank, Delay Litigation, Mr Justice Frank Clarke

Supreme Court Ruling

Supreme Court brings down the curtain on ‘delay litigation’, over the past number of years The High Court, Commercial Court, Appeals Court and indeed The Supreme Court have been used as ‘tools’ of ‘delay litigation’. Almost identical to the Modus Operandi of Jail-House-Lawyers, many Cowboy Builders and Property Speculators have learned a few tricks of the legal trade and have abused them in abundance, these abuses have seen fraudsters and in many instances criminals, continuing to profiteer from business operations that should long since have been called in, due to their attachment to Toxic Loans.

Delay litigation has been tolerated due to the desire of the Superior Courts to ensure that ‘justice’ is seen to be done, however, as Ireland begins the recovery process, it is essential that the cancerous growth of ‘delay litigation’ is cut clean off our Judicial system, so that a new generation may breath live back into a badly beaten economy.

Bank of Scotland

A couple have lost their Supreme Court appeal against a decision that Bank of Scotland Plc was entitled to recover some €4 million from them arising from unpaid loans made for property development purposes and to appoint a receiver over certain properties.

Patrick and Roseann McLaughlin, of Foxrock, Dublin, had, in their appeal, argued the 2010 cross-border merger between Bank of Scotland (BOS) and Bank of Scotland (Ireland) (BOSI) did not involve the transfer of any securities held by BOSI to BOS.

Their appeal was given a priority hearing by the Supreme Court because, if that argument was upheld, it would have what Mr Justice Frank Clarke described as a “profound” effect on the position of BOS and would also potentially impact other cross-border mergers.

In unanimous judgments yesterday, the three-judge Supreme Court dismissed the McLaughlins’ argument. It ruled that the security held by BOSI over the McLaughlins’ properties was an “asset” of BOSI within the meaning of the relevant 2005 EC Directive on cross-border mergers, which had passed to BOS on the coming into effect of the relevant merger.

The court also refused as unnecessary the couple’s application to have issues, including the meaning of the word “assets” in the 2005 EC Directive, referred to the European Court of Justice for determination.

Decision upheld

Based on that and other findings, the court upheld a High Court decision BOS was entitled to recover some €4.06 million from the couple arising from the loans dating from 2008 and had validly appointed Tom Kavanagh receiver over certain properties on which various loan facilities were secured.

In their appeal, the couple also claimed they had had an arrangement with BOSI that it would not call in the relevant loans until their residence, “Latona”, Torquay Road, Foxrock, had been sold. They said that they intended to move to smaller accommodation and took out a bridging loan to buy another property at Kerrymount Rise, Foxrock.

Dismissing that point, Mr Justice Clarke said if the evidence was that there may have been “some sort of vague understanding or acceptance” by the parties some latitude might be given to the couple if there was difficulty selling Latona.

However, the judge said there was no evidence to establish a legal obligation on the part of the bank to refrain from calling in the loan until Latona was sold.

The judge also said there was also no evidence to suggest BOSI/BOS ever agreed, as the couple claimed, to forego any entitlement to recover any shortfall if the property was sold for a sum insufficient to clear the loans.

The judge said that the issue was not whether it might or might not have made business sense for the lender to wait, as “it probably did”. The issue was rather whether the lender was “legally obliged” to wait, and it was not.

The court said another issue, also of potentially wider significance, was whether the failure to specifically register BOS as the new registered owner of charges originally executed in favour of BOSI meant, at least where registered lands were affected, neither BOS nor the receiver could enforce the charge.

In her judgment specifically addressing that point, Ms Justice Mary Laffoy said she was satisfied, as a matter of contract, BOS had power independent of the provisions of the 1964 Registration of Title Act to appoint the receiver under the terms of a 2006 charge between the couple and BOSI.

Ms Justice Laffoy held that although BOS was not registered as owner of the 2006 charge, the receiver was validly appointed.

Supreme Court Judgements 2015, McLaughlins, Bank of Scotland, ACC Bank, Delay Litigation, Mr Justice Frank Clarke