A priest who claimed from the pulpit that a woman was deliberately infecting parishioners with Aids is being kept under garda surveillance.
Michael Kennedy, a third cousin of the American president John F Kennedy, has been dismissed as a parish priest, but he has not been laicised.
“He is out of ministry and is subject to a monitoring programme involving both the diocesan authorities and the gardai,” said a church spokesman.
Kennedy lives under diocesan sanctions in a church-owned house.
He was disciplined following a canonical inquiry 10 years ago. The diocese has refused to say what prompted the inquiry other than that it was “an allegation of misconduct”.
During Kennedy’s initial suspension, pending the outcome of the inquiry, he returned from a stay in
