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In 1997 the
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Society moved to High Park, about 2 km from Kiltegan County Wicklow the former home of the Westby family, and named it St. Patrick's. It had been donated by a catholic businessman John Hughes to Fr. Pat Whitney in 1929. Fr. Whitney took over the building in 1930. The High Park residence had
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in May 2007 for facilitating abuse by a paedophile named Billy Adams. McGrath had given Adams ÂŁ20,000 in 2005 and Adams had used the money to impress 12-year-old Jade
Critchlow whom he then raped over a six-month period. McGrath denied knowing about the abuse but admitted having a brief sexual
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Patrick's Missionary Society held a General Chapter meeting which elected a new leadership team. In 2015 the society commenced moving its headquarters from Kiltegan in Ireland to Nairobi in Kenya. The Society produces the
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Kiltegan House in Nairobi, as the Society joined other orders in Tangaza University College. Also in 2002 a house of formation was founded in Lusaka, Zambia.
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