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I've spent 30 years counseling priests who fall in love. onboarding_article = 'https://subscribe.independent.ie/welcome/premium/'; const setDataLayerNonMeteredFlow = function (accessObject) { if (snackbar) { gigyaID: getCookie('guid'), Asked about religion, she said she was "always really attracted to the crucifix, I just love it", and that led to her going to a Catholic church in 1982. } if (subscriberCookieStatus === "undefined") { }); const bundleValue = getBundleValue(purchase, 'purchase'); const virtualPageViewData = { userHasLoggedIn = true; Dolores Atwood, who was born in August 1969, said she first met Richard Burke, a member of the Kiltegan Fathers order, after mass at a Catholic church in Nigeria in 1982 and enjoyed conversations with him.She was giving evidence in a defamation action by Mr Burke (66), a former Archbishop of Benin, Nigeria, who claims an RT\u00c9 programme alleged he was a paedophile.RT\u00c9 denies defamation.She told the court when she became ill in 1983 with typhoid fever, she was \u0026amp;quot;surprised\u0026amp;quot; when the then-Fr Burke visited her in hospital.While he was there, the light went off and he kissed her, touched her breast and was \u0026amp;quot;touching me inappropriately\u0026amp;quot;.When the light came back on, he had gone back to the position where he was standing before the light went off, she said.Ms Atwood yesterday began giving evidence in the action by Mr Burke, a native of Co Tipperary, alleging he was defamed in the \u0026#039;Prime Time Investigates: Mission to Prey\u0026#039; programme broadcast on May 23, 2011.The jury has heard Mr Burke was ordained in 1975, after which he served in Nigeria as a priest before being appointed Bishop of the diocese of Warri.He was later appointed Archbishop of Benin city but resigned in May 2010 over his failure to adhere to his vow of celibacy.Mr Burke denies claims by Ms Atwood (45), who now lives in Canada with her husband Chris, that he sexually molested her when she was aged 13 and first had sex with her when she was 14.He says they first had sex in autumn 1989 when she was aged 20 and he was 40.Ms Atwood said she grew up in Warri in southern Nigeria.Her father is a mechanical engineer and she has six sisters and three brothers. const welcomePopUp = document.querySelector('.welcome2'); }, 500); } } Becoming upset, she said they were a happy family until problems began between her parents in 1982 and they divorced. mutations.forEach((mutation) => { wallVisible: 'true' } else { if (document.getElementById("map") !== null) { return { const listenForFlipPayEvents = function () { setSubscribeButtonColour(plan); }); if (badges.indexOf('btn-dark') > -1) { document.cookie = subscriberCookieName + "=" + JSON.stringify(cookieData) + ';path=/;domain=' + domain + ';max-age='+cookieExpiryInSeconds; } else if (isUpgrades === true && member_redirect) { }; const isCoupons = false; if (vars.article.wallType === 'premium') { if (isHomeDelivery) { }, actionField: { }; let addToCartFiredAfterRegistration = false; attributes: true, bodyAvailable = true; FB.XFBML.parse(socialEmbed); } selectedPrice = bundles[0]; previouslySelectedPriceId) { const couponCodeUsed = function (purchase) { ? window.dataLayer.push({ premium_content_redirect_url: 'https://member.independent.ie/', } subscriptionStartDate: cookieData.subscriptionStartDate, } } virtualPageViewData.eventData.user.wallType = 'paywall'; } tab.onclick = function () { window.shopFrontHeaderSubscribe = false; if (Object.keys(p.badge || {}).indexOf('print_monthly') > -1) { A kiss on the forehead in a dream is nothing more than a sign of affection and respect for the other people involved. const subscriberCookie = JSON.parse(getCookie(subscriberCookieName) || '{}'); } else { The letter said they had a relationship which began in 1989 when she was 21 and he was 40. event: '_trackEvent', We need the priests to forgive our sins and give us the sacraments. 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", } }); if (Object.keys(event.detail.object.badge || {}).indexOf('home-delivery') > -1) { meterStats.items_used : 0, price.placeholder_prices.map(priceToEcommerceProduct) } return 'shopfront'; window.loadGTM(); for (let i = 0, parts; (parts = cookies[i] && cookies[i].split('=')); i++) { onboarding_article = 'https://subscribe.independent.ie/welcome/home-delivery/' return bundle_info; if (subscribeButton) { labelText = ''; The priest knows that as a public person he is at a very high risk if his story comes out. window.dataLayer[0].article.userWall = 'none'; const fireCheckoutEvent = function () { } else if (purchase.badge['premium-plus'] && purchase.badge['premium-plus'] == true) { return 1; if (priceA.badges['premium-plus'] && priceB.badges['premium']) { } setSubscribeButtonColour(node); Earlier, in re-examination by his counsel Jack Fitzgerald SC, Mr Burke read his May 2010 letter of resignation as Archbishop in which he apologised to Ms Atwood and her family. {"gigya.api.key":"4_CO8231Ix1RbYi2EmMbsrlw","gigya.screenset":"Default-RegistrationLogin","gigya.mobile.screenset":"Default-RegistrationLogin","gigya.authFlow.redirect":"true","gigya.check.enabled":"true","gigya.check.host":"gigya-check.independent.ie","competitions.submit.endpoint":"https://competitions-api.independent.ie/entries","competitions.api.key":"0b15feaa-62b2-45a2-8244-723a9e80748e","subscriptionwall.cookie-domain":".independent.ie","subscriptionwall.metered.missing.fields":"data.occupation,data.phone,data.salutation,data.yearofbirth,profile.firstName,profile.lastName","subscriptionwall.welcome_url.home-delivery":"https://subscribe.independent.ie/welcome/home-delivery/","subscriptionwall.welcome_url.premium-plus":"https://subscribe.independent.ie/welcome/premium-plus/","subscriptionwall.welcome_url.premium":"https://subscribe.independent.ie/welcome/premium/","kaching.enabled":"true","outbrain.kaching.enabled":"true","quantcast.enabled":"false","didomi.enabled":"true","newsletter.subscribe_url":"https://member.independent.ie/quicksubscribe/IN:Daily/subscribe","social-embed-consent-wall.enabled":"true","homepage.regional.sections.mapping":"Cork:regionals/corkman/:corkman,Dublin:regionals/dublin/:dublin,Kerry:regionals/kerryman/:kerryman,Louth:regionals/louth/:louth,Sligo:regionals/sligochampion/:sligochampion,Wexford:regionals/wexford/:wexford,Wicklow:regionals/wicklow/:wicklow","active_cmp":"didomi"} {"url":"https://shared.mediahuis.be/ka-ching/independent/ka-ching.umd.js?20210830","adunit":"m.independent.ie/Irish_News/Courts","targeting":{"art_id":"31345896","article_id":"31345896","kw":["Dolores Atwood","Richard Burke","Archbishop","Catholic Church","Priest","Nigeria","High Court","Archbishop of Benin","Benin","Priest","kissed","me","and","touched","my","breast","when","I","was","13","and","in","hospital","woman","tells","court"],"gs_channels":["gs_notprocessed"],"article_type":"standard"},"platform":"MOB","pageType":"Article","lazyload":true} {"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"\u0026#039;Priest kissed me and touched my breast when I was 13 and in hospital,\u0026#039; woman tells court","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Independent.ie","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://m.independent.ie/theme/_base/"},"@id":"independent.ie"},"image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://www.independent.ie/incoming/00efe/31345795.ece/AUTOCROP/w1240h700/ATWOOD%20re%20BurkeV%20RTE%20Jy1%20C.jpg","height":"700","width":"1240"},"mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://www.independent.ie/"},"dateCreated":"2015-07-01T23:04:07.000Z","dateModified":"2015-07-01T23:47:15.000Z","datePublished":"2015-07-01T23:04:07.000Z","keywords":"Dolores Atwood, Richard Burke, Archbishop, Catholic Church, Priest, Nigeria, High Court, Archbishop of Benin, Benin","thumbnailUrl":"https://www.independent.ie/incoming/00efe/31345795.ece/AUTOCROP/w1240h700/ATWOOD%20re%20BurkeV%20RTE%20Jy1%20C.jpg","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Tim Healy"},"description":"A woman has told the High Court a priest kissed her and touched her breast when she was sick in hospital in Nigeria at the age of 13 in 1983. event: '_trackEvent', eventData: { } flipPayConfig = Object.assign(flipPayConfig, { span_tag.style.backgroundColor = ""; return { return; if (typeof bundleExpires[priceId] != "undefined") { premium_content_by_id: "flip-pay", productClickSource = null; eventAction: 'hd_options_click', window.showSubscriberElements(); price.addEventListener('click', function () { } } const hash = getUrlHash(); userID: '', return false; Her parents were Muslim but she herself never really embraced any religion, she said. } } Here's what I learned. if (listeningForGigyaEvents === true) { }; params[pair[0]] = pair[1]; }); !gigyaID ? 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