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Tue 06 Jun 2004Bishop apologises for priest's child sex abuseA senior bishop issued a public apology from the pulpit at the weekend for the sexual abuse of children by a deceased parish priest.The Bishop of Killaloe, Dr Willie Walsh, addressed parishioners on Saturday and Sunday in the east Clare parish of Mountshannon and Whitegate over the sexual abuse perpetrated by the late Father Tom McNamara on a number of children in the area.