C Brady The Irish CatholicSinging and dancing priest Fr Ray Kelly said if he was chosen for the Eurovision the song he entered could be a winner for Ireland.Fifty years on from Irish singer Dana Rosemary Scallon’s win with the song ‘All Kinds of Everything’ in 1970, Meath-based Fr Kelly said he would be “shocked and amazed” to be chosen.“I have had a great interest in the show, I’ve watched it from my early teens from going back to Johnny Logan in 1980 and even before, I was in school when Dana won it,” Fr Kelly said.The song, written for him by two musicians, is called ‘Hallelujah Day’ and will be on the priest’s new album set to be released by Easter.Asked whether he thought the song could win the song contest he said: “Personally I think it could, I’d be biased though.
“It’s an unreal song, it’s fabulous. It’s a Gospel song with a country-western flavour to it. I think it would go down brilliantly, the chorus is so simple I could just see the whole auditorium joining in.”Fr Ray prefaced his comments saying: “My first love first of all is my priesthood, and that’s number one in my life.”As this paper was going to press, RTÉ did not confirm whether the Eurovision contestant had already been chosen, but told this paper it will be revealed in the “next three to four weeks”.Fr Ray said that even if someone else had been chosen: “I would still love to, that doesn’t stop me from having that desire to, I would have loved to have gone to Rotterdam this year and to represent Ireland would have been such a great privilege.”Currently the priest, who is based in Oldcastle, is competing in Dancing with the Stars and has stayed in the competition by popular vote despite receiving low scores from the judges.Popular voteFr Kelly said he would be happy whether knocked out or not. He said: “It looks like I’m getting a popular vote from the people of Ireland at the moment.“And it’s not particularly for my dancing but maybe for my entertainment or my popularity in other ways, or maybe the Hallelujah story resonated with a lot of people as well, there’s a lot of things going on there.”“My logic is that it’s bringing happiness and liveliness to people’s lives for an hour or two, and if I can do that maybe not with my dancing but with my popularity and the fact that I’m a bit of an entertainer, then bring it on.”Fr Ray will be competing for a fifth time this Saturday.PAT SAYSPoor Ray is trying one thing after another to promote himself – YouTube, dancing and now the Eurovision.He was very cross that he was not allowed to sing for the Argi in Croke Park and that his record label dropped him.He’s nearly getting as anxious about his profile as the Darcy boyo.I think they both have ADD -Attention Deficit Disorder?
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INLA BOMB KILLS TWO BOYS IN DIVIS FLATS IN MY PARISH
A blog reader sent me the video below he found on YouTube yesterday.
That was a very bad day in Divis Flats.
133 replies on “FATHER RAY KELLY NOW WANTS TO WIN THE EUROVISION SONG CONTEST”
https://m.imgur.com/2eAQjSi
I would rather look at this beauty 😍
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Hiya Fr. Buckley,
If I send a letter to the Archdiocese of Dublin will they forward it on to Rev. Byrne for me? I would like to get in contact with him and support him. Please and thanks
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If you are serious you should know that, as Michael is on their books, of course you can write to him ℅ Archbishop’s House; address easily obtainable on the Diocesan website. I hope your posting is not just an incitement for the trolls to come out of the woodwork – give a bit of excitement to their dreary judgemental lives. But if you do want to give him some encouragement, then well done!
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08:06
Dear Fr. Pat,
Many thanks for you kind response. I have wanted to make contact with him for awhile now. He is a hard man to track down. I know some priests in Dublin but they will NOT give out his contact details without his consent. In the past, I went through some trials too, so I would like to offer him prayers and some monetary support.
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Good. And I’m sure G will find a way of expressing his gratitude to you.
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ok, quit with the Michael Byrne Sh*te! it’s been done to death. we have progressed to more serious issues. some gay lad who used to be a cleric is not of great concern in comparison to other pressing issues.
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He is still a cleric 🙂
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He is hot
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+Diarmuid Martin may I request that this man gets ordained? He will certainly attract a crowd. I could imagine being sick in hospital and this guy turns up to offer support 😳. He would certainly make the dead rise!
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And not only the dead!
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500 views and counting. 😍😍😍
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He is gorgeous
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+Pat
You and M.Byrne need to have a sit down to settle your differences. I bet you both would be good mates by the end of it. You have similar life stories and experiences.
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Bloody ‘ell! Fr Ray will be there with a donkey next 🤣😂 🤣
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H🌞T!
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Now +Pat, your dislike of Fr. Ray is worrysome. He, like you, reaches out to unique niches. Leave him be. He is entitled to partake in talent shows regardless of his employment – just like any other freeman. You may need to reign in a bit because you are very unchristian towards your peer.
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11.28: Anyone who outshines poor auld Bucks is treated with derision, contempt and ignorance. Just look at his apoplectic rage at the very sight or mention of Brian D’Arcy!!:Patsie has no time for clerics who out class him. Jealousy and begrudgery are Buck’s Achilles heels.
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Thank the Lord for Brexit! Britain wont have to endure eurovision anymore!
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you’re still in the Eurovision ,at the UK’s own request
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Unlike Ireland, and possibly Fr Kelly, UK does not need to qualify for entry in the Eurovision Song Contest as along with Germany and France the UK pays it.
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Fr Kelly will probably try to represent the UK. Wasn’t he on BGT?
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Pat: “I would like to reach out to Byrne to support him after four years of falsely accusing him of things”
Michael: (takes a selfie in defiant response).
Pat: (explodes) 😡😡😡 “this fu*king ba*tard……booo hooo” 😭😭😭
M. Byrne you are my new hero. Well played sir!
😂👏😂👏
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He must be trolling everyone at this stage. The guy is so brazen…it is so hilarious and so brilliant at the same time.
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Pat underestimated Gorgeous’ mental fortitude. If you think about it, he single-handedly made a psychologist quit his job. 😂🤣😂
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12:30am
Brilliant!
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MB’a greatest achievement was to rid the seminary of that homosexual hating fool David Marsden.
Enjoy that desk job for the rest of you life Marsden.
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12.30
And he single-handedly had himself quit going for the priesthood.
(Just puttin’ things in perspective, like.😉)
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2:58
That’s what you think 😉
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And MB got cleared out of Maynooth a lot of active gays sems too, so in fact MB did Fr Marsden’s work for him.
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Byrne is a sterling fellow!
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Pat, your jealousy of Ray Kelly and ither media priests is your problem. Is this the best you can present as topics of interest? And I don’t believe you were sent that You Tube Video by anyone. You found it yourself. You are a liar. What a pathetic, immature and stupid response to the popularity of Ray Kelly. You are a pitiable nutcase. Fr. Ray reaches and touches far more people spiritually than you’ll ever dream of. Why? Because he’s a decent, kind, generous human being. He is also a very caring priest, good to charities and interacts kindly with everyone. This man has humour, goodness, talents and inspires many. Pat, get over your jealousy. You have little of worth to be doing.
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The man is not right in the head. He acts and responds like an idiot on that dancing programme. He looks pathetic. Sounds like your response @11.59pm last night indicates something you need to consult the John of God’s.
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11.02: Your comment is pure shit. Which end of your body – mouth, nose, backside, ears – dies it flow from? Do you know Fr. Kelly personally? Have you seen how popular he is in his parish? Are you aware of his charitable fundraising efforts? No, you haven’t and sadly you depend on the vitriol of this blog to make erroneous, nasty, silly judgments.
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Fair fcuks to him. Go Ray go.
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Dana Kelly 😊
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Grace Kelly would be more appropriate, Bp Pat.
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Sugar Ray Kelly would also be nice.
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Dana Kelly — is that juvenille misogyny?
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This video, Bishop P. is one of the reasons I sought, as a very young person, priesthood. Because I saw courage, love, and indiscriminate compassion combined in a marriage of inconvenince…to those who sougt none of these things. Who, actually, sought its opposite.
DALY was the archetypal fool.
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did you know the cardinal personally, Magna?
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He was the one who ran MC from the door of Maynooth
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but you also had to grapple with your sexuality, which I imagine for any young man in seminary, can be a very lonely and daunting experience. you have my full support.
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12.49
I’ve grappled with many things in my time, Rita love.
That, erm, ‘full support’ you offered: Does it include cash donations?😕
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12 22: What happened your idealism Magna? Was it the cirmatirs discovering your total unsuitability, a situation from which you’ve never recovered. Get h-e-l-p and stop hinging all your life’s miseries on “rejection” by others (as alcoholics do). Take moral responsibility for your own unattractive, vulgar, and crazy behaviour.
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3.05
Ack! Now why wud a do thon?😕
Sure isn’t the craic 90?😃
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Rev Professor Dr Fanny Mullaney is possessed of one of THEE finest teeological minds of the 21st century. The fact of her acute woke-ness adds to her overall sexiness. She will be a tremendous asset to the Ramtha School of Enlightenment and we are so looking forward to the enrichment her immense gifts of mind and heart will bring, to our pioneering work with orbs.
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more juvenile misogyny
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Ray Kelly article – 😴
Patrick Buckley video – 😴
Michael Byrne picture – 😛😈
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Fr Kelly likes to blow his own trumpet, Bp Pat.
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Just as long as that’s the only thing he’s blowing.
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9:51, I must say your comment did make me literally laugh out loud. thanks for the laugh
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Bp Pat, after BGT and DWTS, it seems Eurovision would be the natural progression for him to represent l’Irlande in the contest.
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I haven’t heard ‘Hallelujah Day’, Bp Pat, but it couldn’t be any worse than any of the entries last year in Tel Aviv. They were all rotten.
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It sounds like he or his agent has already approached RTE, Bp Pat, about his participation. The contest is also known for novelty acts.
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Well Ireland did have two turkeys represent them at Eurovision so no surprise another turkey wants to do the same. He wasn’t chosen to sing for the Pope because they deemed him unsuitable. Get over it.
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Ray Kelly is an unapologetic self seeking idiot. There’s better pub singers out there. He has used his collar for fame. What a pitiful man. Typical of the RCC. They use God for their own ends. Pathetic
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The Irish version of ‘Dancing with The Stars’ is unavailable on the RTE player for UK viewers, Bp Pat, but he must be popular if he is through to the fifth round of the show. Strictly, Come Dancing celebs are guaranteed £50,000 if they get that far.
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Because he’s in the fifth round doesn’t reflect that he may be talented. That doesn’t always follow. It’s the public who are keeping this clown in. He has had the lowest scores from judges simply because he has been awful.
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8 .55: Another silly, ignorant comment. Ray Kelly worked in the civil service before priesthood and was acclaimed then as a very good entertainer with a good singing voice. The man is only human after all. He’s not my cup of tea but I have absolutely no difficulty with him using his gifts and talents in whichever way he chooses. Much of the commentary, including Pats, is expressed out of jealousy and I suspect most are jealous priests. Were you to have the topic on the serious issue of homelessness, there would be little interest. Strange how some, led by Pat, can go into stupid- envious- rage mode at the mention of media clerics. Well done Ray: continue to use your good gifts.
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Ray has a great talent and is having some fun with it, good luck to him.
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the old biddies in meath will have some phone bill after the show concludes. we might have to do a fundraiser for the poor creatures
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The gay scandal in Scotland continues unabated, Bp Pat.
Amazingly, not a church scandal, but I imagine the shamed and disgraced middle-aged queen at the centre will follow the late soiled-senior-citizen, Keith O’Brien, into exile in England.
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Oh come now, this stuff happens everywhere. Some years back there was a US Congressman – Republican of course – sexting young male interns. Incredibly the Scotch guy didn’t get the message he’d gone too far even when the lad stopped replying after having been told he was cute. He handled the situation pretty well, extricated himself and brought down the queen.
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It makes a nice change though from the endless church scandals.
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Spit it out 8.55. What are you going on about?
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Spit it out indeed inspector. You are one to talk, where are the photos you promised ye auld phoney.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-51411259
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This current Kelly blog and comments on it show the base level to which +Buckley’s blogsite has descended.
Just imagine what the average person would think if they were to check out the current blog for the first time!
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I think it has always been a mix of the serious and satirical.
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Take a chill pill pal.
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10.26
Ack! Everyone here is well above average, like. 😉
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https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/phillip-schofield-gay-holly-willoughby-lgbt-charity-support-stonewall-a9323261.html
Phillip Schofield comes out as gay at the age of 57.
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11.56
So there you are, eh?
Gordon the Gofor has made a comment to the effect that he always suspected Philip was gay. Gordon added: ‘I kinda knew, like. Hard not to have known when the guy had a tendency to keep putting a fist up…’😨
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Fifty-seven? Goodness me, but I imagine many bishops are well over that age and still… well, let’s just say, openly closeted. For example, making no effort to hide your flaming homosexuality but labeling yourself “straight” and acting as if nobody (including your parishioners) notices.
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Was Phillip Schofield about to be outed? I wonder.
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Look at the interview, he wasn’t, fair play to him it can’t have been easy.
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I seen that pic of micky byrne yesterday, I thoought you had byrne destroyed pat ya wee hur?
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Gorgeous has a face like boiled shite.
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Let us see your face then anonymous? We can all have a joke at your expense then.
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And probably a willy the length of a one foot turd, just sayin loike
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Eurovision would be the perfect spot for the three transexual priest performing at Wonersh a couple of years ago. Rector Coyle would be proud of them and the international attention his seminary would get.
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Yeah, and the three Queens G, J and S as their choir!
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Would T be the dancer? We miss his dancing performans in the corridors here at Wonersh! It was like watching a performance of the Swane Lake!
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Much more likely HER dancing performance. The Dancing Queen! Which makes four Queens.
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Leave Deacon Michael alone. He is gay, so what? Bishop Bucko is gay and is married to a man and you don’t complain. HOW DARE YOU ALL spout off constant homophobic abuse on here toward this man. It is a criminal offence. God remembers every single post on here and you will not be allowed into his house either. If Rev Michael wants to progress to Priesthood, then good for him. If he promises to at least to try to be celibate (stupid rule anyway) then go for it I say.
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Yes Dermo we hear you
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Pat, have you seen the announcement from Philip Schofield that he’s decided to be a gay going forward?
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Yes.
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1.29
What’s a ‘gay going forward’?😕
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It’s the opposite of gay going backwards.
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‘Going forward’ has replaced ‘in the future’ or ‘from now on’ I am queer as priests.
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Bishop P. @ 1.34
I thought it might be a new category for the ever-expanding LGBTQI…abbrev. .
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Magna is a bottom I hear
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1.51
So he’s going to be gay…from now on?
Don’t let Michael Voris hear you say that: he’ll take it as proof that gay is a choice.
Is Schofield going to split from his wife, so he can, er, test-drive his, er, new sexuality?
(Just wantin’ t’peep through a keyhole, like.😉)
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How much a year is Ray Kelly earning from his all-too-public warbling?
Is he still sponging off parishoners while banking his takings?
(Ack! Am just wonderin’, like, so a am.😆)
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Whatever he gets he can double RTE show appearance fees with subsequent public appearances, e.g. opening supermarkets, or saunas, etc.
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1.56
Mon Dieux! He must be rakin’ it in! 😨
Only the finest altar wine for him now, eh?
Gammarelli’s here we come! (Business Class, of course.😎)
So, er, why is he still sponging off parisoners?
Saw a video of his officiating at a wedding. He sang everything!. The groom looked embarassed. Well, either that or he had Slapped Face Syndrome.
I swear that guy Kelly could put to song takin’ a dump.😕
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1.38: It’s none of your business, you jealous, raging idiotic fool. Fr. Kelly gives a great deal to charity. Do you care? No, you silly “butch” of a fool. Go and engage in something useful, you poisonous reprobate.
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1.57
Sure a love t’stick m’nose in other people’s business, so a do.😈
How do you know he gives to charity? I’ll bet he doesn’t give every penny (sorry: ‘euro’) to charity. I’ll bet he keeps a tidy sum for himself.
So why is he still sponging off parishoners?
Hmm?😕
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Kelly the clown fab club member calm down.
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Why don’t you email these and other burning questions to his boss?
Bishop@dioceseofmeath.ie
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Fr Kelly is not a diocesan priest, he’s an SPS missionary in an Irish parish for some reason.
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Pat Mullaney is bullin’ BULLIN‘ coz her “I hear you’re a racist now, Jesus” sermon has been removed from the bishops’ website and her goin’ around and the big puss on her
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Oh I’m so disappointed. I have been meditating on that peerless sermon since it was preached. It was an inexhaustible mine of spiritual treasures. And now it has been snatched away by spiritual pygmies who don’t appreciate the length and breadth, the height and the depth, of Rev Prof Fanny’s sheer genius. Sure Jesus was just an ordinary bloke with a cool message. He made mistakes and committed sins just like all the rest of us. Some of the stuff the guy said was just plain bonkers and is best consigned to the bin of history – but there was some pretty koolio little sayings that he left us too. Thank you Prof Fanny for enriching me faith. I appreciate you even if some others don’t, who want to keep us in the dark ages of banshees and holy trinities and all.
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UP OUR FANNY!
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Fanny is a lovely lady. Very sophisticated. Lovely voice for speaking. Close your eyes and you’d swear you were listening to the former Uachtaran na hEireann Mares Robinson. Voice like fluffy crinoline.
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Is Madame Francoise Mullaney perhaps the first case ever of a Fanny being a complete Dick?
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Ah begorra Pat, ye missed it earlier in the Pugin Refectory at the lunch hour, didn’t Fanny turn savage on poor Tom Surlis accusing him of mansplaining a point of tee-ology to her. Tore strips of him so she did. “You’ll never be a replacement for Paul! You’re not fit to sponge out his underpants!” she roars at him before storming off to her room in a fearful strop. No one knew where to look and the Trolly Dolly sitting at the same table took a panic attack and had to be taken outside for a fag. Honestly, Pat, Fair City wouldn’t be in it so t’wouldn’t.
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As one who was present, the message I took from Rev Prof Mullaney’s speech was, that in the 21st century, we can all be our own Jesus.
We have all evolved spiritually beyond the bloke with the beard 2000 years ago anyhow. We, the woke generation, know far more than Jesus of Nazareth could ever possibly even have imagined.
Of course, there are still the religious backwoodsmen and repressed holy mary women who would keep us in the dark ages, denying women’s autonomy over their own bodies, persecuting people over their sexuality and choice of gender, denying climate change, killing and eating animals, etc., but their days are numbered. They’re mostly a bunch of coffin dodgers in any case.
No, Prof Mullaney’s speech for me was a moment of enlightenment, insight and final liberation from the myths and fairy tales that my granny spent her whole life believing in and enslaved by. And I had the bestest Christmas ever.
Tristram O’Leary-Bellend, 2nd Arts.
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Is the Vatican on the case?
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2 21: Magna, I’m in a position to know his generosity to charities and to people in need. I also know he is very good to his family, extended family and friends. Quite frankly, your thoughts are a non-story. Methinks jealousy is at the core of your begrudgery and stupid thinking. Shut up you moron.
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2.41
So he IS still sponging off hard-pressed families while distributing his celebrity largesse hither and thither (And rakin’ in the glory for it.😕)
Just another way of self-seeking, isn’t it really?
At his parishoners expense?
He grabs the kudos, while they foot his bills.😞
(Well, SOMEone had t’ say it, like.😕)
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3.54: A pathetic comment. You are just a BULLY GIRL, Maggie. Driven by jealousy. Your concerns as always are just faux indignation. You are just plain silly. Grow up. Well done to Fr. Ray: a guy bringing much happiness to many…well done to him if he is well paid for his talents. And God bless him in his generosity to so many. Maggie, Fr. Ray requires a bag woman to carry his luggage…you should apply, Bitch.
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3.54: PURE JEALOUSY- raving and ranting stupidly, like a crazed, drunken fool.
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Marge Cartwheel: Your mad jealousy knows no bounds. It must annoy you that your life is so dreary, miserable, boring and drink sodden while the rest of us enjoy life and the friends, interactions, gifts and blessings of each day. Stay in your loo of a shack. Seems you’re happiest when wallowing in your s***e.
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That would be the post modern Jesus!🤪
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2.21: Butch Maggie, It’s not your nose we’re worried about which you stick into other people’s business…..It’s that tiny, little, insignificant yoke between your thighs we’re worried about…and where it gets stuck!!! Just a wonderin’…
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2.45
Now don’t be wonderin’ too long, like, else your hand will go a wanderin’.
Bad thoughts lead t’ bad deeds. 😎
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Bishop Pat, I send you an email about the ongoings in St. Peters
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Maura, get back to twitching at those curtains. Number 43 are expecting a new 3-seater, you’ll miss it, quick!
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+Pat why don’t you go on I’m a celebrity get me out of here! Should do a clerical version so we can all see the clerical goss.
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Hi Mags H hi call it I’m a parishioner hi get ME out of here
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It will be interesting to see what Fr Sugar-Ray gets up to next, Bp Pat. I rather hope he is selected to represent the republic at Eurovision. I always watch it, although all the songs were rubbish last year.
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5.53: If this rubbish is evidence of a college education I’d sue the college and its lecturers. You are as thick as two planks. What a stupid comment, you illiterate fool. Go back to primary school.
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At 8:45pm the biggest fool of all is you bud 🤣🤣🤣
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Wonder wud Mr Priest Kelly lend me a few bob? And can someone please explain to me why these men are called Father. Have they all sired children. And why is a bishop called his lordship or his grace? What’s all that crap about.
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The feudal system was replicated in the church from the High Middle Ages on. An archbishop was deemed to be equivalent to a duke. Hence both called his grace. Similiarly with his lordship for a lower noble and a bishop.
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Doubt it.
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9.25: Go and educate yourself instead of displaying your ignorance and stupidity. Pat in Larne has cash to give away – ask him…
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Does anyone remember Halls Pictorial Weekly. It’s back on here incorporating the the provincial bishop brasher and friends. Eurovision hi Fr Beaming Ray Kelly and the craggy island crooners sing My lovely horse is all grown up hi. Look at the responses How many of these guys are on spice island but
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9:45. I can’t find any scriptural reference for these titles. Perhaps you could enlighten me
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You won’t find any Scriptural references for “Sola Scriptura”.
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