Eamon Crossan News Today

Defrocked cleric Eamonn Crossan was charged with almost 100 historic sexual offences against the man, who courageously faced his abuser at Court

);  ); A Donegal priest has hit out at what he called sick, vile, shocking, horrific and evil acts perpetrated against a young child following the conviction of a former priest at Letterkenny Circuit Court last Thursday. Creeslough-based curate, Fr John Joe Duffy welcomed the two year sentence imposed on 69-year-old Eamon Crossan who pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a 13-year-old boy in the parochial house in Kincasslagh on a date unknown between 1984 and 1985. The court heard Crossan had...

Former parish priest jailed for two years A former parish priest has been sentenced to two years imprisonment after pleading guilty to sexually assaulting a teenager over thirty years ago. Eamon Crossan had plied his 13 year old victim with alcohol before carrying out the assault at the Parochial House in Kincasslagh on a date between 1984 and 1985. In a letter forwarded to members of the media, the victim, Kevin O’Brien, waived his right to anonymity in the case. Passing sentence at Letterke...