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Hackney Express And Shoreditch Observer, 18 June 1910

PRIEST TO PAY Cork Slander Case
The slander action brought by Alderman F. H. Meade, ex-Lord Mayor of Cork, and his sister-in-law, Miss Kathleen Hennessy, against the Rev. Father John Ahern, chaplain to Cork Workhouse, ended in Dublin on Monday with verdict for the plaintiffs. The jury assessed the damages at £200 for Alderman Meade and £150 for Miss Hennessy. The words complained of imputed to the plaintiff Meade the parentage of a child to which his sister-in-law had given birth, and also accused him of blackmail. In support of plaintiff's case, it was alleged that the father of the child was John F. Mahony, V.S., a brother-in-law of the defendant. Miss Hennessy, by consent in court, was awarded £500 damages against Mahony for breach of promise and seduction, but this had not been paid. Father Ahern's sister subsequently married Mahony.

PRIEST TO PAY
Cork Slander Case

The slander action brought by Alderman F. H. Meade, ex-Lord Mayor of Cork, and his sister-in-law, Miss Kathleen Hennessy, against the Rev. Father John Ahern, chaplain to Cork Workhouse, ended in Dublin on Monday with verdict for the plaintiffs. The jury assessed the damages at £200 for Alderman Meade and £150 for Miss Hennessy.

The words complained of imputed to the plaintiff Meade the parentage of a child to which his sister-in-law had given birth, and also accused him of blackmail. In support of plaintiff's case, it was alleged that the father of the child was John F. Mahony, V.S., a brother-in-law of the defendant. Miss Hennessy, by consent in court, was awarded £500 damages against Mahony for breach of promise and seduction, but this had not been paid. Father Ahern's sister subsequently married Mahony.

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