Ryan McAleer, up until recently, lived in the parochial house in Dungannon in Co. Tyrone, was Amy Martin’s primary school adviser and was the VF – the vicar forane of the Dungannon clergy area.
Now, he has disappeared and is listed as gone to do post graduate studies – whatever and wherever that is?
Notice there is no name of the college where he is studying and no address for the college or even the subject he is studying.
One Armagh source made the claim the other day saying: “He is gone to stay with Rory in London”.
I fact that Armagh source is wrong. I had it confirmed this morning that Ryan is not in London.
One correspondent, below, says he is in Leuven.
My understanding is that Rory, by Amy’s arrangement is living with a religious order in London and doing volunteer work with the London Irish community?
It seems that Ryan, like Rory and Thomas McHugh (aka Tomasina) are all favourites of Sean The Wounded Healer Brady.
This blog and its author has a special interest, at this time, for knowing the whereabouts of Ryan McAleer.
BISHOP PAT BUCKLEY 
105 replies on “HAS ANYONE SEEN RYAN Mc ALEER OF DUNGANNON?”
Probably an arrangement made by the auld doll via the Servites in Benburb.
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Not another storm brewing in Armagh Pat?
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Pat, they were Brady’s boys so leave them alone. Amy has, however, kept them close to her bosom. Follow the money on this one, can of worms springs to mind and Tyrone/Derry Clerical individuals are in the epicentre of a big scandal.
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Stop the lights
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https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-newly-ordained-priests-fr-thomas-mchugh-left-and-fr-ryan-mcaleer-are-46936687.html
The Three Degrees
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https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-newly-ordained-priests-fr-thomas-mchugh-left-and-fr-ryan-mcaleer-are-46936687.html
The Three degree’s together.
Father Eamon martin would be stronger is Sean Bradly was in a retirement home.
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Sean “Did you enjoy being abused by Brendan Smith” Brady is the ghost of Christmas past, no one wants to be associated with him, unfortunately he doesn’t get that at all! Eamon Martin should grow a pair and instruct him to keep as low a profile as possible preferably in sackcloth and ashes. Brady thinks he was badly treated and doesn’t feel that he did anything wrong, in his brain the holy priest was seduced by Satan in the child. The sight of him posing on the stage with Francis was sickening, the realization that he was allowed to do that was equally sickening and speaks volumes about Eamon’s ineptitude and failure to control his clergy. Best solution Eamon is to send him off to Rome for further studies, out of sight out of mind, he can spend his time in obscurity counting the number of angels dancing on the pin of a needle. For God’s sake Eamon show a bit of leadership and direction!!!!
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Auld doll would still have no balls retirement home or not.
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It says here: https://www.parishoferrigalciaran.com/2020/09/26/bulletin-20th-september/ that he’s gone to Leuven to complete postgraduate studies in theology.
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It’s interesting this one move to Leuven was not
announced officially as part of the Armagh clergy changes last year.
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I ABHOR the MIA. And I should know, I was MIA myself as a young priest until I went to a support group.
Now I understand the phenomenon fully and nobody can tell me about it.
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You were MIA yet you abhor them?
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Don’t question me, I’m a priest, have been to support groups and have an understanding you will never have.
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Oh dear Pat. Not another shenanigans?
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Leuven, very nice! Not far from a big gay scene in Brussels and has an Irish College where lots of MIA’s stay. Home to Stella Artois, a Pontifical University, an ideal place to hang/hide out. Elsie sends some of her men there to get them out of the way
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Most people think that Stella is French. Nope. It’s Belgian. French speaking Belgian, but still Belgian. Wife beater stuff, if you have too much, they say. But, I doubt if many of Elsie’s or Amy’s MIAs in Louvain / Leuven would know that ! I doubt if they are able to go out so much for fresh air and exercise – hhhmmm ? – at the moment because the lockdown in Belgium is pretty fierce presently. Better off in Alice Hall or somewhere like that around London within easy reach of Hampstead Heath. Apparently, the police are quite relaxed about a bit of al fresco cruising there even with lockdown, as long as you don’t scare the horses, and don’t make the group session too large or too noticeable. We all have our crosses to bear….. !
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Talking about MIA, I haven’t seen our lovely Fr Peter saying Mass for the last week, at least since Sunday 10th. I wonder if he has been ‘furloughed’ from saying Mass at present because of his rather gauche joke about breasts ?! Yes, breasts ! Can you believe it ?! Have a look: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58_6ifZjbmw and go to 13:20, beginning of the sermon and listen to the story. Bit odd. Anyhow, maybe he will reappear. Hope so. I do so look forward to him saying such a lovely Mass.
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A bit early to be stalking?
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He deserves stalking if he tells jokes like that !
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The story isn’t about breasts at all!
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I didn’t think it was either. but I could not bring myself to listen to the whole homily 🤧
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@10.09am Hampstead Heath is overrated and too far out on the northern line from Chelsea for a quick shag. It’s not the only cruising ground in London anyhow. The number 11 bus delivers sems directly to the main fleshpots of Soho. If you walk to World’s End one bus takes some sems to brompton cemetery at night.
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The punch line is definitely about breasts – breast size 8 again, she says. Not 8 years old. Listen carefully ! Anyhow, I don’t think anybody laughed. Cringe !
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I think she said DRESS SIZE 8
I don’t know a great deal about female anatomy but a cup size 8 would be a pimple 😅
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It must be his hearing. Still, Father P gives a lovely sermon.
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I had a dream last night that I hated my job, was unhappy in my work but my boss was great and allowed me to go abroad to a nice city for further study and then to do a bit of volunteering in London, all expenses paid.
Then I woke up and remembered that I’m a layman and my shift starts at 10.30.
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10.03: … My shift states at 7.00am each day…..what are you complaining about???
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Who is paying for Roaree’s London adventure?
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Not you, I reckon.
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Not Roaree either, I reckon.
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Ah the wounded healer, what a poor excuse for a man and a priest.
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What about the wounded children Sean?
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Is there something in the water where young McAleer is from in Tyrone where a young CC had hanky panky with a married man and had to leave the parish as a result and sent to a quiet Co. Armagh parish.
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What CC? Name names
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How much study does a diocesan priest need? It’s very agreeable for the priest concerned and the Church has prized scholarship and developed the university system, but why does an ordinary diocesan priest require postgraduate study when there is a shortage of priests and the old guys are worked to death. Why not fund lay people to study?
Also, what does it say about Maynooth that despite the millions spent on it, Irish priests invariably are sent abroad for postgraduate study rather than to Maynooth? Few of Maynooth’s clerical staff have doctorates from Maynooth – they did theirs in Rome etc.
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Because Maynooth is not a real university.
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If it was non of the recent crops of sems would graduate!
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Agreed it’s more like a College of Further Education!
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It’s a mediocre teacher training college with the lowest admissions standards of any Irish university. It is the equivalent of a very low-ranking ex-poly in the UK.
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I suspect the low standard of education at most Irish seminaries is, and has been low for a considerable time. In terms of intellectual rigour, my own was pathetically inadequate, mostly at the rote learning level of simply unquestioning acceptance of information and teachings regarded as immutably correct. To question accepted teachings was to be seen as suspect.
I have no reason to believe that other colleges were, or are any better from my perceptions of my fellow clergy.
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Bit like Oscott. Very mediocre academic standards there. No rigour at all. Well, not the academic type, anyhow !
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Maynooth is a joke academically and in every sense. A man who, as a seminarian, was mediocre in absolutely every respect is now its president.
Until relatively recently, a man who was a “sem student” in the 80s, was in charge of “formation” and having right old time for himself researching lads’ erections and ejaculations!!
Very disturbingly, there are rumours of seminarians being sexually assaulted by other seminarians and even “rape” has been mentioned.
Close the damned place down for f***’s sake!!!
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My son’s primary school in a small Northern Ireland town has a bigger enrollment than the single-faculty so-called Pontifical University of Maynooth.
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Before Eamon Martin went to Armagh and was Administrator of Derry Diocese he was told directly to sort out the scandal of a PP in Derry Diocese and a relationship with a woman. The result was he did sweet f.a. and the relationship continues.
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And Donal McKeown ignores it to this day.
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I would not waste my time and energy with incompetent Archbishops or Bishops.
Depends on issue so straight to the Congregation for Clergy and the Bishops certainly do not like it one bit.
Any not sorting her dioceses out will lead to no Red Beretta.
And I am not Jim S but he makes a valid point highlight it to Rome. 🙂 🙂 😉
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What Derry PP is this?
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With a woman! How very antique! Eamon was right to do nothing that priest is an endangered species, I didn’t think they were any left!
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I’ve never been ever lucky enough to meet a heterosexual priest. I think they were still around up until the early 2000s but that’s before my time.
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They disappeared around the same time as the corncrake 😊
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They are not that endangered. A total ignorant misconception.
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They ran out the Door in the late 90s
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What could he do apart from moving the pp?
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Return him to his order?
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He could send him away to somewhere like Leuven.
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Leuven only has single beds.
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Plenty of double beds in Maynooth, Pat, all described in the booking terms and conditions as being in the heart of the seminary. Some rooms can take three.
https://www.maynoothcampus.com/rooms/
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Terrible education in Ireland when I was a boy in the 50s. Rote learning and trashing are only necessary where neither the teacher nor the student believed or understood what was been taught or why it was been taught, and that extended to a lot more subjects than theology and started in the National School system.,
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That’s very true John.
Seven boys and six girls did the 11+ in 1955 from my N. Ireland primary. We were segregated with two teachers in each of the boys and girls separate classrooms. The boys “head” was a local man appointed by the PP. Only one boy passed; five girls passed. I failed. We boys had only started doing the IQ practice tests a week before the exam; the girls had been doing them for months. Our former boys’ head (he had left two years previously for much larger school headship) told my uncle he was amazed at our failures, and was hearing negative rumours about the quality of his successor. Of course in those days we kids didn’t know any better, nor did our acquiescent passive parents.
Subsequently five of those boys, including myself, went successfully through universities, proper Unis at that.
At my secondary school a pupil who failed Junior Cert in 1954, had to repeat the year before eventually passing in 1955, same year as myself. So being in same 54/55 class, I knew him as “none too bright.” He subsequentially went to the then Trench Ho teacher training college, (now St Mary’s Uni College). I met him much later when he was head of a medium sized N. IRE
catholic primary: his first cousin was the PP! In talking with him then, both in our 50’s I found him still “dull”, and with neither knowledge nor interest in modern progressive education. That just about sums up good old Catholic education!
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Eamon/Donal who both ran colleges also ignored the scandal of the priest biker who hangs around the gents toilets along the north coast.
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Biker as in motorbike or bicycle ? Biker leathers or cyclist lycra ? Both horny on the right person. I suspect that probably isn’t the case in this instance….?!
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Dirty cow 🐄
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Speaking of Armagh, does anyone remember Quigley and Matthews from Maynooth days.
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I remember Charlie Ferry or as he preferred Cathal O’Fearrai, was Junior Dean, in 1970s.
( Raphoe). He had a cert in some sort of psychology and thought he was a Psychologist. Enough Said!
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“…. Stephen Wilson, our clerical student who has been working in the Pastoral Area recently returns to Maynooth this weekend and will be coming to the various Parishes at weekends for the next few months as he journeys towards diaconate and priesthood ….” (also from Errigal Ciaran parish bulletin last September).
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Pat, Is Amy still ignoring you over that trolley dolly? She’s a wee clip that Amy one so she is.
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If she’s ignoring you, Pat, all I can say is she’s one very foolish and silly wee girl.
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3.11: There are lots of wee little girlies on this blog keeping company with snowflakes and queens….you being one of them…plonker!!
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11.22:… Pat, you must have been disappointed that Leuven only had single beds!!! Not comfy for your hanky panky….
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I’ve never been to the Leuven college 😉
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its not for “thicko’s”
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Ryan is looking very old these days. His hair is receding and he is plump around the edges. Bless him in his new life in soho london with the big R.
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We seem to have established today that he is in Belgium and not Lndon.
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Universities are closed because of Covid. Where is he now Pat?
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Less than two hour journey to London via Eurostar
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Universities are open though working online.
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So you could be enrolled in Leuven and studying on line in London?
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Ryan’s Twitter account is locked down. His profile pic is a moody shot of him in lay clothes and looking hot, to be fair.
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Has Fr McAleer gone to Leuven at his own request, or has he been “sent away” to get him out the way for a while? I wonder.
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We called him McAqueer in sem. Ryan and Tomasina brought a well known armagh seminarian on holiday to Spain in 2018/2019. (Shhhhh!) ☀️🏖🍹👬👬
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Why at 2:54 are all the people images of males?
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Is it true that Or Else shat ‘erself in Westminster Cathedral at a Big Mass?
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Too much detail. Please. There are limits. The thought of that would put you off High Mass for ever.
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Rumour has it that Wraggy Nun had to put on a boil wash. It were a dodgy Indian from the night before when they were watching Strictly.
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God apparently told Father McHugh that if he wanted to have a life of computers, and to start a family, rather than being a priest, then that was fine ! Really, what a load of imagined tosh ! The family bit. Not God. What a big girl’s blouse. Start a family, my arse ! Is McHugh still at the Cathedral in Armagh ?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p021gl54
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He just hasn’t found the right girl yet.
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Exactly at 6:07pm – it’s like the Micky Bubble song – “I just haven’t met you yet”! Poor Brian Darcy he still hasn’t met her yet either 😁😀😆
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In the name of Jayzis who the bleep does this goon think he’s kidding?? “Start a family” my arse 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Thomas luv you’d need to adopt ….. or kidnap 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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Thomasina is, to quote Tom from Gimme Gimme Gimme, ‘’so far back in the closet he may as well be in ****ing Narnia’’. There’s no chance of Thomasina starting a family! The clergy of Armagh diocese are by and large gay, with some very thin veneers put up to hide who they really are. I’m sure there are many stories to be told. It’s good to have Bishop Pat on the case.
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The photo of that duo is like a cover photo on an album for Country and Western singers. You could just imagine those pair crooning in the parochial halls in backwater places like Coalisland, Ardboe etc and all the rednecks from the west of the Bann swinging their yokel women round the floor.
All they need would be D’Arcy hearing confessions in the Merc out in the car park.while in the back of other motors, big red headed hallions with names like Assumpta and Gorretti are getting badgered.
Up Tyrone lik!
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Pat, a few months ago, during the Dom Dick bareback episode, we had “Goodbye Joe, he gotta go …. “ – Joe didn’t go and Rawhide Purcell is still in position.
The dolly’s trolley is still trundling on towards diaconate and priesthood with all its goodies and wheels intact.
The stuff you have Pat is enough to cause this tottering institution to collapse into rubble and dust. But no one is interested. You’d think the media would use your stuff to bury the church and pat down the grave with a big shovel.
No one seems interested and the church ignores you. I find that unfathomable.
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They are a totally brazen lot. They will not move until the lid flies off the pressure cooker.
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That McAleer fella looks like Atilla the Nazi. What is it with young clerics and that severe clerical gear?
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All I have gleaned from today’s comments that Fr Ryan now resides in Belgium and Elsie may have shat herself. Where is all this leading up to, Bp Pat?
Concerned OAP
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You’ll see 😪
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Mgr Mark Langham RIP of Westminster Diocese has been mentioned several times over the years on this Blog. I would have had no reason either to praise or to disparage had it not ben for this eulogy in The Tablet: https://www.thetablet.co.uk/columnists/2/19280/being-a-priest-doesn-t-mean-you-can-t-have-fun-along-with-all-the-business-of-life-and-death
One of his early achievements as PP of Bayswater was to chuck out the wandering poor and destitute who had been “encouraged” by his predecessor, the legendary Father Michael Hollings.
At Westminster Cathedral he not only kicked out the sainted blind priest Father Norman Brown, who had had an amazing ministry at the Cathedral for decades, but, according to this very Blog, had titled-tattled about details concerning the Confessional during those “legendary” gins on the Cathedral roof terrace – nice work. if you can get it.
Nobody has mentioned his time at the English College Rome – following his painful and humiliating – according to himself, as outraged that he had not been sent ( according to Couve immediately to Rome) – experience of Allen Hall. Once at the VEC he amused himself by drawing portraits of the better looking seminarians. I have no problem with that.
Nor does anybody mention his sudden departure from Westminster. Nothing to do with a “senior altar-server” named Paul?
I’m glad he had a useful career at Cambridge, but, I suspect, there were questions, which had they been raised in Scotland, would have been addressed by the redoubtable Patricia McKeever.
In short, was he ever anything other than a shit and a careerist?
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Why am I thinking of Tom Stack?
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Mmm, I kind of thought there was another side to the coin. There usually is. Gossipy, gay, faux Posh, clerical, careerist, ambitious, I could go on….
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Bishop Buckley,
This is the second time in a week that you have permitted debate over the character of someone who hasn’t yet been buried. Shame on you.
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The truth will set Stephen Wilson free even if the truth is revolting 🏳️🌈👬
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Mr Stephen Wilson loves his LGBT flag 🏳️🌈. As Stephen Wilson once proclaimed in his reflection in Parish, ‘who are we to judge who you wish to love and be intimate with, Jesus loves you’.
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Stephen Wilson is an excellent advocate for the gay rights and gay integration of seminarians within Maynooth. 🏳️🌈👥
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this is true as Mr Wilson is the PIC for the integration course for Gay Seminarians. Stephen leads the lads in an immersion program within Seminary.
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Usually two weeks in duration. The input includes interpersonal relationships, boundaries and correct protocols. In fairness Mr Stephen Wilson unpacks the reality of a gay seminarian living in a male dominant community as one of an inner struggle and period of spiritual growth.
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Top and Bot.
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