As initially discussed yesterday, Kathy O’Beirne‘s bestselling memoir DON’T EVER TELL is getting knock after knock in Ireland and Britain, made more so thanks to a press conference held by her brothers and sisters in Dublin asking for her publisher, Mainstream, to pull the book off of store shelves. “The reason we got together was because of the allegations she was making against our father,” Oliver O’Beirne, her eldest brother, told the Guardian yesterday in Dublin. “They are totally untrue. I read her book from beginning to end and wanted to get a pen out and cross out everything that was not true. I have no recollection at all of her having been in the Magdalene laundries.”
His sister, Mary O’Beirne, also spoke out. “Our sister was not in a Magdalene laundry, or Magdalene home, she was in St Anne’s children’s home, Kilmacud; St Loman’s psychiatric hospital, Mountjoy prison and Sherrard house for homeless people,” she said. But Mainstream is still sticking to its story. “Mainstream took steps prior to the publication of DON’T EVER TELL and were satisfied that the memoir was appropriate for publication,” it said. “This included working closely with Kathy O’Beirne and providing the opportunity for comment or correction to the archdiocese of Dublin by submitting relevant material to it.”