THE FAMILY of a missionary who had been “pronounced guilty” by the national broadcaster of criminal activity felt that RTÉ, the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland and the Minister for Communications were colluding to prevent an investigation of this aspect of the station’s controversial Mission to Prey programme, Michael Mullins (FG) said.
While welcoming the authority’s report into the defaming of Fr Kevin Reynolds, Mr Mullins said he wanted the Minister to ensure that the segment of the RTÉ report referring to Br Gerard Dillon was probed.
This man’s family had been in touch with hundreds of people in South Africa, where he had ministered for six decades, but there had been no corroboration of the claim made on the RTÉ programme by one individual.
This was a matter of great concern to Br Dillon’s family.