Pat O'Connell

But at the same time, I suppose, after we ran the story, or before we ran the story, we spoke with Harry's daughter, Shanita.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Shanita is one of the bravest people I know.

Shanita was abused by Harry Daly for over a 10-year period.

Not an exact science on how young Shanita was when this all started.

I mean, at the court case, it said it started when she was six years old and the abuse went on until she was 17 and that it was daily abuse.

These were rapes and sexual assaults that were taking place on a daily basis.

I think Shanita called it at one stage that it was a house of doom.

In subsequent books, Sinead, or in a book that Sinead wrote, she said the abuse may have actually started when she was as young as three years old.

Yeah, but that when, like before Harry Daly got out of prison, the October before Sinead actually met him as part of a restorative justice scenario.

She said he was apologetic at this meeting and said, you know, that he'd changed and he was taking part in the Building Better Lives program.

But I suppose with Sinead, Sinead had, you know,

Sinead lost an awful lot, not just, you know, the abuse itself and the traumatic after effects that abuse can have.

But Sinead's mother stayed with Harry Daly and took his side.

And basically Sinead was told that she needed to get over this, you know, 10 years of being.

And was she 17 when she went to Gardaí?

Yeah, I think she was, she may have been older than that.

I think when Sinead did go to the guards, she was obviously believed.

I think the guards did a good job.

I mean, Harry Daly was an ex-prison officer who'd worked in Limerick prison for 26 years.