{"id":306196,"date":"2026-02-19T13:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T13:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/306196\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T13:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T13:38:09","slug":"outrage-as-disgraced-wexford-choirmaster-seen-socialising-with-child-rapists-at-opening-of-carlow-massage-parlour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/306196\/","title":{"rendered":"Outrage as disgraced Wexford choirmaster seen socialising with child rapists at opening of Carlow massage parlour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Former church organist and music teacher \u00c9anna McKenna was convicted for possession of \u2018horrific\u2019 child abuse images in 2016\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"(L-R) Child rapists, Noel Savage and Harry Daly, child abuse image distributor, Eanna McKenna, at the opening of Chaya Thai Massage in Tullow, Co. Carlow\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/4201243d-d3aa-4821-9169-adedf611fe18.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">(L-R) Child rapists, Noel Savage and Harry Daly, child abuse image distributor, Eanna McKenna, at the opening of Chaya Thai Massage in Tullow, Co. Carlow<\/p>\n<p>Patrick O&#8217;Connell and P\u00e1draig Byrne<\/p>\n<p>Wexford PeopleToday at 12:00<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Ten years ago, choirmaster, organist, teacher and an apparent pillar of his local community \u00c9anna McKenna was convicted and jailed for possession of a \u201chorrific and despicable\u201d stash of child abuse material, featuring children from aged from just one-year-old up to 15.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">At the time, Judge Barry Hickson said he was \u201chorrified and shocked\u201d by the depraved content discovered on the Wexford man\u2019s computer and hard drive, while McKenna threw himself at the mercy of the court and stated that he was attending group therapy sessions which \u201chad a massive positive improvement on my development as a person\u201d, something he stated he wished he had undertaken years earlier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former church organist and music teacher \u00c9anna McKenna was convicted for possession of \u2018horrific\u2019 child abuse images in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306197,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43,10489],"class_list":["post-306196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-padraig-byrne"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}