Here is sex beast Michael Shine walking the streets of a leafy Dublin suburb – following his release from prison.
Our exclusive pictures, which show the ageing pervert posting a letter in Ballsbridge, are the first of the paedophile surgeon since he was freed on Wednesday.
Our sister paper The Star confronted a masked-up Shine, 89, close to his plush Dublin 4 apartment.
But the evil predator, who sexually assaulted seven boys, refused to apologise to his victims, and kept silent when we questioned him.
Asked if he had any apology for his victims, Shine, who kept a mask on throughout, said nothing, and kept walking.
Asked if 100 survivors, who are still awaiting compensation, deserve to be paid — again Shine said nothing.
We then left the pervert who returned to his apartment in Ballsbridge.
Shine was freed from the Midlands Prison shortly after 10.30am on Wednesday but no pictures emerged because he was shielded from public view after a car collecting him was allowed to drive in behind a gate.
The infamous paedophile is now back living in a large, plush Dublin four apartment, having served just three years behind bars for the indecent and sexual assault of seven young boys carried out between 1971 and 1992.
The shamed former surgeon was jailed in 2019 for his horrific offences, and now his victims are calling for a public inquiry into how he was able to abuse them for so long.
Shine worked at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda, Co Louth, where he was able to abuse children for decades.
A group that supports many of the victims of Shine is now calling on the government to intervene in a row over legal fees which has derailed compensation settlements for more than 100 survivors.
The High Court previously heard that more than 100 civil actions against Shine and the Medical Missionaries of Mary (MMM), which ran the hospital, had been settled.
However, that apparent settlement later unravelled due a dispute between the religious order’s insurer and the HSE over who should pay the costs in the case.
In a statement, Dignity4Patients, an advocacy and support organisation helping victims of Shine, called on the Government to intervene and explain why the ongoing row over costs was delaying payment of damages.
The issue was also raised in the Dáil by Labour TD Ged Nash, who said: “This is a case of lawyers differing while survivors continue to suffer.
“Many of the men feel they are being re-traumatised as the legal rows rumble on, completely oblivious to their pain and suffering.”
Meanwhile, speaking to the Drogheda Independent, Pat Cusack who was one of Shine’s victim’s said the abuse he suffered completely altered his life.
“I was 11 years old, a young, happy-go-lucky boy, before my life was turned upside down at the hands of Mr Shine and the acts that he carried out on me,” said Mr Cusack, who previously waived his anonymity.
“He handed me a life sentence of pain, hurt, turmoil, anguish and shame, that was all as a result of my innocence having been taken away from me by a person who was in a position of trust in 1974.
“The experiences that I went through are forever burnt into my memory until the day I die and are as vivid today as the days that they were carried out on me.”
Pat told the local paper that what he suffered has had a long-lasting negative effect on his life.
“All my life I have experienced recurring memories, flashbacks, dreams and nightmares which triggered severe emotional stress,” he added.
“For years I tried to block out the memories by whatever means I could; as a teenager sniffing solvents and later, taking illicit drugs — never for the high, always for the mind block and the numbing of the mental anguish.
“As I got older, I drank heavy again all to block the pain.
“I often was actively suicidal and indeed am not sure how I did not take that option on a few occasions because I could not get off the rollercoaster of hurt pain and anguish and shame. I am thankful that I did not”.
He also said he shares feelings of anger with those victims who have not received their day in court, or any compensation.
“That is the only closure that they will get, and the delay is very hurtful for the victims,” says Pat.
“He has never said sorry, and I hope what he has done is never forgotten.
“The one comfort I have is that he is walking out of jail as a convicted paedophile and hopefully on the register of sex offenders.
“But there are things missing, such as the lack of justice for the other victims who are engaged in a protracted process, which could be fixed at the stroke of a pen.”
Despite his conviction for indecent assault in 2019, Shine has never accepted his guilt and instead accused his victims of chasing compensation claims.
In 2017, he told the Sunday World newspaper: “I have nothing to be sorry about.
“Of course [it’s about the money]. What age are you? Well this has been going almost as long as you’ve been alive. This is going on almost 30 years.”
Last year, the Court of Appeal ruled that another trial involving 31 complainants couldn’t go ahead because of a two-year delay in informing Shine of the charges.
In total gardai have dealt with 189 complaints against Shine and at one stage there were 218 civil cases against him.
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