I’m not paying for this
Via Election.ie today’s Sunday Tribune is running a story saying the Church wants its legal fees, arising from the Ryan Report, to be covered by the taxpayer: While the orders are close to a final agreement with the government to make additional contributions of €100m plus properties to the redress scheme, the Sunday Tribune has [...]
How the catholic church in Ireland operates
Scenario 1 “Archbishop, we’ve got a situation here”. “What is it?” “It’s Father O’Fiddly”. “Good sweet jumping Christ on a bike, what now?” “Some complaints about him, he’s been raping the shit out of kids”. “Oh for fuck’s sake. Not again. I thought we had words with him the last three times”. “We did but [...]
Brian Coward
As the faithful go to mass today – and I’m sure poor attendance will be because of the rain, nothing else – what leadership has the Taoiseach shown in the wake of the Dublin report? People want to see criminals prosecuted, whether they’re priests, bishops, archbishops, cardinals, lay people, Gardai who failed to act or [...]
It is time to turn our back on the criminal catholic church ltd
The audio clip below is a Father Tom Doyle, an expert in canon law, speaking to RTE’s Prime Time … in 2002 (hat tip @mark_coughlan). His final words – “There’s something radically, radically wrong”. Yesterday we discovered how wrong. The Dublin Diocesan report was published. It catalogues the systematic and constant abuse of children by [...]
So what happens now?
In the light of the child abuse report what will happen? Are there many of the perpetrators left alive? If so can they be prosecuted? Age should be no impediment. What about naming those who carried out such abuses? I heard Christine Buckley on the radio earlier and she spoke about how relieved she was [...]
Institutional Abuse report
This afternoon a report into institutional abuse by religious orders will be published. At a cost of €70m it will outline how children were abused in industrial schools, institutions for children with disabilities and ordinary day schools. I wonder will anything in it shock us though? Will it be enough? I’m not trying to play [...]
