Biography Proven Fraud By Irish /British Media To Get Sequel.
Added on October 26, 2008
Sunday 26th October Press Release.
Ms Kathy O'Beirne, the Dublin woman whose book 'Kathy's Story' grossed 350,000 sales and €2.2 million for Mainstream Publishers in 2007 was proven fraud after an intense campaign was instigated by the charity Let Our Voices Emerge (L.O.V.E.). We combined ex Industrial school inmates, Magdalene Laundry women, the O'Beirne family, and information sources from the Religious orders and an Garda Siochanna. All of this work culminated in the book 'Kathy's Real Story' by Hermann Kelly.
We have recently discovered that even despite our efforts and some very good expose's by the Irish and British Media; Ms O'Beirne is getting a sequel to her book written by British freelance journalist Diane Taylor. Will the Irish media allow O'Beirne away with this, or will she be challenged?
Those of us who have been in the Industrial Schools in Ireland, those that have been genuinely abused as children, and those who have been falsely accused of abuse, are extremely angry with Ms Kathy O'Beirne. After spending just 6 weeks in an Industrial School where she herself states she was very well treated, she dares to claim our stories as her own. Her school records show that she was in Primary School until almost 13 years old. She claims to have been savagely abused in the Industrial Schools, and a Magdalene Laundry since 8 yrs old.This is only the start of the fabrications.
Holders Publishers claim this is a different book, different story, but the fact remains, they are giving full credence to a woman who's gotten through Mainstream Publishers who also state they were satisfied she had passed their background checks. Yet as soon as we got our journalists to work, they were able to unravel one discrepancy after another. Will this now be a case of Ms O'Beirne being allowed to carry on making idiots of the unsuspecting public, and celebrity victimhood for herself...or will you, the media, help us stop this farce ?.
Florence Horsman Hogan.
Founder Let Our Voices Emerge (L.O.V.E.)
086-8762148 / 01-2821414.