The former sports coach was 10 years into a near 19 year sentence for the sexual assault of 15 teenagers in Waterford in the 1970s and 1980s and had been suffering ill health in recent weeks.

Victims say the Justice Minister has told them he is going through the steps to secure them a state apology.

The report was brought to Cabinet by Justice Minister Jim O’Callaghan last Tuesday.

Fianna Fáil is not implicated ‘at all’ in a report into the abuses of paedophile Bill Kenneally, the party’s leader has said.

Vivienne Clarke The chief executive of the Children’s Rights Alliance, Tanya Ward, said the victims of Bill Kenneally have done the country a major public service in bringing to light ...

There was a ‘clear and serious dereliction of duty’ by gardaí in the case of paedophile Bill Kenneally, a public inquiry has found.

Victims expressed anger over the Justice Minister’s handling of the publication of a report into the abuse.

The public inquiry report said the Garda investigation into abuse allegations against Bill Kenneally was ‘unprofessional’ and ‘rushed’.

The ex-Waterford basketball coach spoke to a Commission of Investigation examining the response of gardaí to allegations of abuse against him

He gave evidence at the Commission of Investigation examining the response to allegations of sexual abuse made against him