Convicted serial sex abuser Bill Kenneally has died in hospital aged 75, The Irish Times has reported.
His death come just over a week after the publication of a report on the response by State agencies to his abuse of a boy in Waterford in the 1980s.
The former sports coach was 10 years into a near 19 year sentence for the sexual assault of 15 teenagers in Waterford in the 1970s and 1980s and had been suffering ill health in recent weeks.
He had been transferred from the Midlands Prison to hospital where he died.
A Commission of Investigation into complaints against Kenneally found a serious dereliction of duty by senior Garda officers when they learned he sexually abused a boy in the late 1980s.
Judge Michael White, who chaired the Commission of Investigation, examined the response by the Garda and the South Eastern Health Board to a report in 1987, that Kenneally – a member of a prominent Fianna Fáil political family in Waterford – was abusing pubescent boys.
