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Don’t forget folks – this was only Eamon Casey’s HOLIDAY HOME!
His permanent home was the Bishops Palace in Killarney.

STEALING 70,000
When the news of the scandal broke Eamon Casey used 70,000 he stole from Galway to try and pay off Annie and Peter.
REPLY FROM WATERFORD GARDAI ABOUT PHONSIE AND THE € 70,000 EURO THEFT BY PRIEST.


222 replies on “EAMON CASEY’S LOVE NEST SELLS FOR € 1.48 MILLION”
Bishop Casey, the man who destroyed Killarney Cathedral.
https://theirishaesthete.com/2019/08/03/an-act-of-desecration/amp/
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Beautiful.
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9.58
Bang on the mark about those tiles!
I can almost smell the Jeyes Fluid.
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Lovely public toilet tiles on the floor there. Just need to take off the roof and the monastic ruin look will be complete.
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He didn’t strip the plaster off the walls of his summer palace.
That man was high on entitlement. I used to see him arrive in his BMW at meetings in Maynooth. He was a drink driver and one time when he was pulled over by the Guards he blamed the waiter at the fancy restaurant he’d just come from, saying that the waiter had had a “heavy hand”.
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So, he was a liar, too?
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Over the years Clericals all over Ireland have shown complete ignorance and disregard by destroying and removing features and items of great historical and sentimental value to local people from their local churches. Much work & items of value were paid for by poor congregations in the past & these people were socially shamed into donating despite priests knowledge of their limited means. It’s not that long since priests were still getting away with reading donation amounts & names of donors from the altar & the fruits of the Labour of local congregations were duly dumped in a skip in more recent years on the whim of of tasteless clergy & their crony appointed advisors & builders.
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He wasnt the only Bishop as Magee of Cloyne was the same who almost destroyed Cobh cathedral inner architecture.
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What saved us was it was registered in laity Trust instead of registered in rcc name or a trust designed to benefit rcc as a whole.
Same was said in America where Polish community resisted mother Burke to sell it or cash it in which eventually led to excommunication of a Polish priest. That church was registered in laity name as courts in USA decreed it cos of laity monetary contributions over the years.
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Otherwise, Magee would have destroyed it with parishioners money with no accountability, no oversight in money, no checks and balances of where the money is going and spent, bishops can spend parishioners money with sheer impunity, disdain for the masses of lay parishioners.
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Magee wanted a new 1M Church back 1990s in a parish as I rem as a young little tot. I didn’t understand why parishioners including my relatives fighting at that time until I grew up. Then many years later, I understood re outrageous 1M parish church proposal. It seems to me that rcc bishops love to see 1m Church in style worthy of the high living romanist Constantine time.
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We as lay parishioners are technically funding bishops to live in a opulent and luxurious life style in oppostion to jesus message of frugally. When will the rcc laity realise this impunity displayed by many bishops as regards to their handling of laity donations around the world especially BLING, BLING Bishop in Germany and Treanor in Down and Connor.
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I want to correct re my post of 2.30pm as I was referring it to anon post of 10.08am
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True for you DG. One wonders how many ash slots they will need to sell in Killaloe to pay for all the shindigs & shennagins they indulged in for Antun ordination.
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I’m from cobh and both my parents are from cobh. I remember that, all the parishioners got together for a petition to stop it , not one of them in cobh wanted the renovation, they were going mad and if you saw this church particularly the inside it does not need it, it is one of the most beautiful church’s I have ever stepped foot in.
My parents, god rest their souls, grandparents and uncle’s have all been buried in cobh and their funerals were had in this church.
This church is very special for me and I would suggest to anyone ever in cobh to pop in, it really is a beauty x
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Red Cliff House at Inch, where disgraced Bishop Eamon Casey famously entertained American Annie Murphy, had been on the market since last year with an original asking price of 1.65 million.
According to the Irish Independent, the seven-bedroom house was the sole property in Kerry to make more than one million Euro in the past 12 weeks, as property prices nationwide continue to soar.
Red Cliff House was once the home of Lord Ventry’s land agents the Hicksons, and was more recently used as a holiday retreat for Bishops in the 1970s and 1980s.
It made headlines in the 1990s when Ms Murphy revealed that her affair with the then Bishop of Galway, Eamon Casey, was partly conducted at the scenic Kerry location.
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70,000 again. Is that the optimal amount for a priest to nick?
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It is not so much contempt for Catholic clerics like Casey that I have as utter disdain for the Sheep, the fools who fund the good (sometimes excellent) lifestyles of these hypocrites.
These revolting men behave exactly as I expect, but the Sheep really ought to know better.
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Yeah I keep thinking that too. Perhaps once the sensible people have seen through a scam you’re left with a remnant of people who are too attached to let go or too stupid to see.
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It’s not that people are too stupid to see or let go. They don’t see viable alternatives and so don’t want to let go.
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10:12 If you had actually read my comment before replying you would have seen that I also gave the reason of being attached for staying.
You, however are obviously on the stupid side of the equation.
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Thank you for your assessment of my intelligence.
I did read your comment.
The remnant who stay need not be viewed as stupid NOR too attached.
My elderly parents, family and friends are well aware of the terrible abuses, of all kinds, committed by the RC church. Yes, we stay because we are attached to our RC faith but we CAN distinguish between what is authentic and what is corrupt. In the absence of viable alternatives to the sacramental richness of the RC church, we stay. We’re there viable alternatives many of us would find them – so not too attached.
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i . 1.03 I agree with you. Given the ambiguity around teachings on “communion” some of us – including remaining honest suffragan bishops – are still hoping we are not wedding ourselves to the corrupt international hierarchy every time we “go up”. Before “eucharist” was made compulsory, it was left to individuals’ consciences how we interpreted it.
ii . 11.43 in some countries charities regulators permit small donors to specify how their donation is to be spent, e.g (if you have a decent priest) excluding corrupt archbishops’ precepts.
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10.12 and 1.03
No viable alternatives? Seriously? To corruption? To the rape of children by priests and bishops, and its cover-up by priests, bishops, and (yes) by popes? To wanton physical, emotional, and spiritual violence against children? To clerics’ driving the young to suicide, or to suicidal ideation? To gross clerical avarice and the financial exploitation of working families? To cronyism? To nepotism? To general worldliness and moral laxity by Catholic clergy?
What the hell is wrong with you people?!
You actually admit that you, and yours, know of the ‘terrible abuses of all kinds’ by Catholic clergy, and yet, astonishingly, you remain a Catholic, not out of loyalty to Christ, but through attachment to your … ‘Catholic faith’? You do know the differnce between God and faith? Faith is not God, and your attachment to it is immature. You have made faith your God.
As for ‘sacramental richness’, what you really mean by this are the little rituals that make you feel comfortable and secure, even piously sentimental. But it is not ‘sacramental richness’ that really matters: it is grace, the opportuniy to participate in the life of God himself. This is available outside those little rituals you value, apparently, over everything else, including God.
I am the poster at 11.43pm, and I repeat what I said there: I have utter disdain for you, and your kind, the Sheep. Not only are you stupid, but you are attached to the wrong things; things not of Christ.
You are also complicit in the swamp of moral corruption the RCC institutionally has become.
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Anon @ 2.13. You speak well and summarise the idiocy nicely. Their church has cultivated fearful dependency so they take comfort in reassuring rituals deployed by their clerical puppet masters to maintain dependency.
MMM
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2.13, so true. You omitted the alternate foreign service from your already tragic list. 10.12 must try harder, as I did. Sacraments are definitely not rich, at all. In my young day the church let us believe as little as we liked, why we liked (perhaps they didn’t dare cross my uncle who was in the “knights” heheh). Unfortunately the protestants have lately become shallow and wound up, too.
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2.13
And yet your abuser wasn’t a cleric or a religious.
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Ordinary parishioners are not aware of the level of corruption. They think Eamon Casey and Michael Cleary were the exception. Pat Buckley stories need to be circulated to a wider practicing audience.
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That’s not easy when you are dealing with an established media.
But this blog had 2.6 million visits last year.
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12:33pm they work very hard to keep things hidden, it’s a full time job in itself. All methods employed, no moral compass whatsoever
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Bishops Houses (palaces) always an interesting point for discussion,
CMOC: £1-2 million House in Chiswick
Robert Byrne; £950,000 in Newcastle
Bertone: Penthouse in Vatican (over 4000 sq ft)
Elsie: God knows what he’s got lined up but there’s loads of Gubay money to ensure he gets the crib of his choice.
Kenney: Detatched house in Oxford – pricey for sure. Lives on his own.
Conry: Money on he lives in expensive property paid for by parishioners.
Wilcox (not a bishop) but 1/2 a million home paid for by wealthy parishioner.
The Plumb Parish: Perk of the job or grace and favour for clergy in favour with bishop etc.
Why don’t bishops live more frugally? More simply? Humbly?
Because: property, pension and secret wealth v important to RC bishops.
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Why don’t bishops live more frugally, simply, and humbly? Because Jesus’ example isn’t worldly enough for them. And the Sheep facilitate this with continued donations.
The Sheep need to take care: they, too, are not following Jesus, but are trailing after these men, blind guides who will lead them nowhere except to Perdition.
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Elsie is going to the Chiswick pad that the parish bought for CMOC. Jim Curry the PP oversaw the purchase.
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11.54
You forgot Bishop Buckley that is Down and Connor’s Palace.
It is more modest than the others.
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Even after squandering £4m on it, Lisbreen is still horrible. It looks like a nursing home.
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I would imagine it’s extremely comfortable in there. I have not been in there since 1985
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And still the Sheep keep giving.🐑
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They should have open days, so that the flock can see what Noel, and his successors, got for THEIR money. And to see how easily conned they were, and how utterly stupid they have been.
But then, they do say that sheep are the dumbest animals. 😕
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True. Only £ 4 million was spent on its renovation.
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Only the best for Noel. Nit many people have £4m to spend on a house. They should have open days so that the flock can see what they got for their money. It should have been sold and the bishop could live near his people in the big, mostly empty, presbytery next to the cathedral. I think Pat suggested that idea to Cahal, and it went down like a fart in a spacesuit.
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I am led to believe the Newcastle pad was paid for by selling diocesan offices and relocating them to the new house where the Bishop also resides.
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Shipquay Street in Derry is where the promiscuous clergy go for a good time.
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And what a great time it is 😊
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I highly recommend this for all clergy and lay man alike
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They like pre drinks around the diamond also, always spotted together
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Recall too this crook is accused of abuse by his niece from the time she was five, and more allegations of same besides (https://extra.ie/2019/03/24/news/irish-news/bishop-eamonn-casey-accused-of-rape-of-niece). The settlements paid suggest these claims were credible. What a vain virtue signaller he was too, ready to attack Pres Reagan with a pose of holy indignation. I recall watching how Gay Byrne RIP aggressively defended fellow crony Casey from the American woman. Gay Byrne could be exquisitely rude to those he disliked, and boy did he evince a dislike towards Annie Murphy. I will say the former love nest looks better than I thought, but perhaps this is the heights of estate agent dark arts making the semi derelict seem inviting. Finally, during his days in Latin America, there were those saying he was a repentant saint. Perhaps he was repentant at the end but he did not live the life of saint, and given his wrongdoing against the young, I worry about his time in LatAm.
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The bizarre morals of the Roman church where it’s seen as moral not to criticise another monstrous warlord in case it signals virtue.
Jesus you people really are something else.
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Unfortunately he died not knowing his own name in Nursing Home in Co Clare with nothing. But I certainly know all the carers and patients knew him well down there for years. He got a girl pregers and took care of the lad.
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He took care of the lad? He? CASEY?! It wasn’t Casey: the man never worked for a living his entire life; he sponged off those who did.
It was the Sheep, the complaisant gullible fools, who took care of that hypocrite Casey’s lad.
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He was a horny bugger, to fond of the drink and babes. Many a man’s downfall.
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Jerry Carey has a villa in Malaga. Michael Mullaney has a Villa in the French Resort of Cap d’Agde. Cap d’Agde is the clothing optional resort. Only Mullaney’s special kittens are invited.
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3:16am Spanish police are reputed to be lenient – convenient for Beach Bum Carey.
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9:27am They replaced Jerry Carey after Salthill Beach arrest for indecent exposure with the priest nicknamed for years as Florida Tom.
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I don’t think they should sell this house. They should open it as a refuge for mistresses of clergy who feel abused, vulnerable and who need healing
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7:31am All that luxuriously & expensively finished space & property for just ONE Irish Bishop!! Would remind you of those American celebrity homes on Pimp my House type programmes. What Pads they have courtesy of the now mainly pensioner sheep! From these photos we can see that They obviously live like Kings, the Irish version of the British Royal Family but at least the Windsor’s attract billions of tourist dollars to the UK annually to cover costs. Interesting to note the colossal wealth that the RCC worldwide are sitting on whilst they blatantly refuse to finalise settlements with victims of church related abuse – many of these misfortunes have died in poverty stricken circumstances, vilified & retraumatised by the denial, coverup and blatant unchristian indifference executed by corrupt RCC Mafia who stubbornly continue to live luxurious lifestyles whilst showing the poor mouth to the sheep. Not to mention the harassment and intimidation of witnesses by their self interested lay & ordained Cathbots in their stringent efforts to conceal wrong doing to continue this toxic cycle of abuse & corruption whilst clergy laugh all the way to the bank & pop into the Boiler House & similar on their way back to their mansions. Spoilt abusive brats they are.
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Clonliffe College is being opened up again by the Archdiocese of Dublin to provide accommodation for 620 Ukrainian refugees, and the presbytery in Raheny has been given to the Irish Red Cross for a Ukrainian family, and €3.2m has been raised in parish collections. How many are YOU taking in, 8.55am?
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Is Clonliffe not the property of the GAA now ?
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I thought so too (ie that the GAA owned Clonliffe now) but the Irish Times reported it being offered by the archdiocese. I wonder if that explains the auction of its contents, in order to make room?
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/religion-and-beliefs/clonliffe-college-former-seminary-offered-for-ukrainian-refugees-1.4853175
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Brilliant idea
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Who are Annie and Peter? Why did he have to pay them off?
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I expect you will find the answer somewhere on the internet if you have a look. Don’t try to persuade us you’re used to having a research assistant.
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It is good to see we are moving the focus back to Kerry.
An update on Fr. Sean Jones or even the non-starter ordination of Mark Moriarty?
I wonder…
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Sean Jones is ‘grinding’ away in the parish. Stephen Wilson visited him after the ordination. They stayed in the Europe Hotel Killarney for some much needed R&R.
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Getting all hot behind my cashmir codpiece at that pic of Mr Sean Jones.
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11:13 You’ve never been near cashmere, come off it. And if you’re the troll who claimed to work in retail selling it, well, McDonald’s don’t sell cashmere.
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Would he not have the manners to ho away and do some Postgraduate Studies while he grinds for goodness sake?!
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Mark Moriarty is working as a Hairdresser in Tralee.
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At least he’s financially supporting himself and isn’t, like priests, shamelessly sponging off others.
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10.41 you are on the dole/DLA, shamelessly sponging off others. Get a job.
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It seems that the Gubay bequest is not in the hands of the Church but contolled by the Albert Gubay Foundation / Derwent Group. This may be wishful thinking on my part but is true according to Uk Charity Commissioners and Derwent Group website
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Themes: offshore enclaves where one has made oneself oh so popular, and now-you-see-it-now-you-don’t ethics.
Questions: i – is Albert connected to Tony Blair? ii – is this why “catechists” with parallel charisms are so fond of explaining to us everything we didn’t understand about topsy-turvy pyramids?
Verdict: if this is how God and St Gregory can be bought then I’ve had done with God and St Gregory! It’s frightening, how these types are enmeshed in everything.
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The day that Phonsie refused +Pat communion at Mgr Shines funeral I remarked to my housekeeper that Cullinan will pay for that. I told her that Karma would bite his arse and that Buckley would get his revenge. Looks like its payback time. Most priests in our diocese have been calling each other all day howling at Bishop Phonsie’s predicament . He’s now a bloody laughing stock.
Well done Pat.
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Interesting, given today’s blog, that bishop cullinan is currently in Rome. It could be coincidental, it could simply be a break after Easter.
I don’t know where he is staying.
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This is like the Hello magazine for the Irish bishops, except it would be called Feck Off magazine.
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Or GOODBYE magazine ? 👋
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More like Good Riddance
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My guess
Our Lady of Peace, Prelatic Church of Opus Dei
Viale Bruno Buozzi, 75
00197 Rome
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Pontifical Irish College
Via dei SS. Quattro, 1, 00184 Roma RM, Italy
Many travel to Rome after Easter Pat. Dairmuid Martin is currently staying here with Paul Tighe. It’s only a one bed apartment so Tighe must be sleeping on the couch. Hmm
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Phonsie is probably networking in Rome. He is an ambitious bully.
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@9.34am DM is indeed in Rome but he is staying in the plush hotel next to Santa Maria Sopra Minerva. Just next to all the clerical attire huxsters.
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I want to hear William Mulvihill’s stories of Diarmuid Martin. You can’t just sit on important compromising information;
you are aiding and abetting!
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This blog is truly the greatest thing since since sliced bread. Since I started visiting here a few months back I have been continuously entertained (I was looking up Ger Fitzgerald -I had noticed he wasn’t doing the mass on Facebook anymore) . The blog is by turns hilarious, scandalous and salacious and the characters -Rawhide Purcell, Phonsie, Kirby, Jerry Carey – you couldn’t make this stuff up! You are doing God’s work pat, no doubt about it.
Your email from the Gardai indicating the will contact you must surely have Phonsie worried. You have ruined his trip to Rome:-)
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Fr Todd, the old blog was great craic too. It is still online.
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Did they ever find out who was the author of the ‘Clerical Whispers’ blog thatcwas active up until a few yeaes years ago? Was it you, Pat?
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No. Joseph Ryan of Ennis – an independent priest who had been a Killaloe seminarian – and a cousin of Ger Fitzgerald.
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@ 11:51 The same Joseph Ryan who slandered Carole. Disgusting. He’ll get his comeuppance…
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11:51am is Fr Joseph Ryan related to Fr Paul Ryan of Ennis or Fr Tom Ryan the Ennis PP?
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I must have a look
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@ 2:11 Fr. Ger Fitzgerald promised both Yvonne and Carole that he would take them to Glasnevin! Highly ironic that Fr. Joseph Ryan is an independent priest in that parish. I wonder if Fr. Ger is hiding out in Dublin with Joe who told Pat a pack of lies about Carole. Apparently Joe didn’t know anything about the money in Ger’s account 🤣. Hey Joe, how does it feel to be taken in by a tight arsed, lying priest? Oh I forgot. You’re cut from the same cloth. Just wait till I show up for Mass one day 😁.
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Fr Todd Ger Fitzgerald was moved out but Bishop Fintan so that is why No Facebook Masses.
Father Ger Jones the Diocesan Secretary replaced him.
Bishop Fintan believed Yvonne and this blog.
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8:07pm reply to Crystal – Glasnevin?! As in a Date to a Graveyard?! Well!! 🤣The current notch on his bed post will be lucky if he takes her to the greasy spoon Limerick chip shop given the price of petrol at the minute!! She might have to push the car the last few miles for him!! 🤣 Someone on here last week said there was a “want’ on Fitzgerald, they obviously knew him well. Maybe he’ll go “Independent” with his cousin Joe in Ennis!! God Help the People of Ennis between the 2 of them & their “supporters” . Sounds like Joe knows only what he “wants” to know to suit himself & Ger. Is Joe the bloke who shouts about God at O’Connell Square in Ennis or is he The Holocaust Denier guy in Ennis that was on UTube?
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@ 11:18 Fr. Ger seems to make a habit out of taking his lady friends to Glasnevin. He promised to show me the grave of the Phoenix Park killer named ‘Skin the Goat’ but of course he never got around to taking me there as he makes loads of promises but for the most part fails to deliver on them. Apparently Fr. Ger has a penchant for the bad boys in history. In hindsight, it is CRYSTAL clear to me why. I don’t think Fr. Joe ‘Pinnochio’ Ryan has any connection to Ennis.
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Joe is from Clare.
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Phonsie has to make a complaint for the guards to do anything. Phonsie will simply say yes I loaned him the money and yes he is paying it back, or, he borrowed the money without authorisation but he is paying it back, I don’t want to make a complaint.
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That’s not how it works. Parish funds are charitable. Therefore it’s not Phonsie’s dosh to be loaning to anyone.
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Yes good point, as DG suggested below the charity regulator might be the way to go.
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10.46 according to what was aired here not long ago, was it the bishop of Meath who was likewise involved in a case of fraudulent handling of charitable giving and also the fraudulent withholding of permission to officiate of an honest priest? The case had to be inspected by a then eminent abbot with knowledge of the international movements of seminarians?
11.07 can this be cross checked with the trustees and him then cautioned?
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10.36 Good try. But disallowed!! 🏈😂😂Blogged it all before. Your verbs are redundant in my regard.
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10.36 There is a lovely book about alchemy. In that work, the writer is of the view that when you find your hearts desire, the universe conspires with you for your happiness. His Disgrace Dermot Martin found his hearts desire as a young priest at Benn Ellie’s service. It was the red Gallero on his head. For all his life he wanted it…. the Eucharistic Games were to be the guarantee!!! This Blog was not a minor stumbling block in His Disgrace never realising his hearts desire. He can sublimate for the remainder of his days…..there are a lot of lessons in Rome…. down around the Roman Forum teaches of transience….. then a trip to the arches in dungarees to manage the transience though the sap is no longer green as the OT would put it !
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Ooh that’s interesting. What’s the book please, William?
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In the Roman Forum, Diarmuid Martin would have turned you down Billy. He likes prim and proper men – like Callan, Tighe, Merrick, Gorgeous et al. You are a bit on the rough side Billy…no offence! 😷
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https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2022/04/27/0297/00634.html
New archbishop in Cardiff.
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Guess I should write ‘the point of view on my work as an author’ though my 2015 book with U. of Notre Dame Press comes close to it, categorizing my different interests (literature, philosophy, patristics, Buddhism) as ‘loci’ within a fundamental theology. You guys (or use the other vowel) make me feel guilty for not bearing the heat of the day with the Irish clergy, but both my clerical friends and my relatives, as well as harried academic colleagues, assure me I am doing best in Japan and that I would not have published six substantial books since 2001 if I were in Cork or in Durham. So let me bloom where I’m planted as long as the Lord spares my creaking bones.
And of course to be spared the nastiness of Ire-land in a gentle and civilized society is a blessing. My admired friend Paul Taylor spent a few days here in 2008 (can it be so long?) and reflected ruefully that it was the only time he had seen what real courtesy is, especially on his return to ‘the daily spite of this unmannerly town.’ One thing that is a miracle in Japan is the immediate proximity of clean toilets wherever you go (unlike the dreadful situation in Dublin, London, or Paris). Equally available is respect, restraint, discretion, gentleness, good manners, unassuming politeness, gracious bonhomie, and all the other constituents of civility that make life go smoothly. See my friend Jim Heisig’s reflection on this virtue: https://www.amazon.com/Praise-Civility-James-W-Heisig/dp/1666793841 JOL
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i doubt its JJ. Starting a sentence with ‘And’ is a shocker
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There’s no way it’s JJ. It was written by an unintelligent person writing in the style that they think an intelligent person uses.
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Oh, so it’s written by Mr Mulvihill then? Just kidding, William. You know I love you. X
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Not anymore.
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That one shouldn’t start a sentence with ‘and’ is nonsense. Some of the greatest writers in he English language did so.
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‘And’ is used to join clauses in a sentence. It is not used to start sentences and worse again paragraphs. Its up there with spelling sulphur ‘sulfur’ and colour ‘color’. I dont give a shit who used it, it’s wrong. Common usage does not mean correct usage.
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Starting a sentence with ‘and’ is wrong. Its AWFUL. Just because something is in common use doesn’t make it correct.
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2.16 & 4.23
Sorry, Fr TC, but, no matter how strongly you insist you are correct, you are, in fact, wrong. According to a ‘University Grammar of English’, by Randolph Quirk and Sidney Greenbaum, both ‘and’ and ‘but’ may be used to link sentences as well as clauses.
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Pat, this badly written screed isn’t by Jap Joe.
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???
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12.19 Agape, Eros, Charity and Friendship were the categories classified by one great writer in the English language on the subject you profer…. I doubt any of the four are suitable here. He has another work where you’d fit right in !!
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Joe, all of the Japanese I’ve met displayed all the qualities you speak of.
As a victim of Chohn’s Disease (in remission 30 years) I am more than aware of the horrific situation in regard to public toilets in the UK and Ireland.
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You and JJ appear to have become quite chummy.
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I think you’ll find the misfortunate inhabitants of the late Manchukoku may have a less endearing view of the Nipponese
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11.23, it is a pity the Japanese didn’t honour that ethic about the human body in their treatment of Allied prisoners duing WWII.
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Yes, Bishop Pat, it is to the great credit of the Japanese that they take into such careful account the basic needs of the human body, which, if unmet, prevent our higher faculties from functioning properly (sorry if that sounds like dualism). One thing I want to add is a hymn of thanks to the Japanese railway and subway systems. They have ferried me wherever I wished with total reliability, safety, cleanliness, quietness, and ease (even when pressed unmasked into carriages of sneezing or masked flu victims (which must have given me good immunity). And they are staffed in every station with an army of very helpful people. Contrast Paris where vandals run riot late at night in big stations with no staff around. Contrast London where hapless commuters have to gape up at screens to discover which lines are functions and which platforms are offering the service they require. Japanese buses also run on time. JOL
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Fr TU, did you turn Japanese at some point?
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@12:07 I really think so😂
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10.22 Are you as insincere as “ your admired friend?” Methinks the subscribed members of the ACP have an agenda not publicised….. I am presuming you are a member ( never a good thing to do) and Paul as Leonard Bernstein would put it “ would do anything to get me blessed.” I never “ admired” sycophants. I can tell from your contribution that ( if it is you at all) you are a mild mannered man but you should not presume to know the sulphuric atmosphere of the RCC on this island which Taylor has propped up with his friend and yours in His Disgrace D. Martin . Together D.Martin punished others for what he and his friends always considered their own entitled leisure pursuits. Disgraceful. Admire, Scholar, whom you like but don’t cough it in benevolence for the naive!!!!
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6.04….couch….. apologies
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That’s ridiculous. How is that ordinary house worth so much!
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Location overlooking the Atlantic.
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Irish house prices are crazy.
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https://www.kilkennypeople.ie/resizer/640/-1/true/1514983744974.jpg–new_bishop_appointed_to_diocese_of_ossory.jpg?1514983747000
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Mark O’Toole is the new Archbishop of Cardiff
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I see he is also to be Bishop of Menevia, in the same kind of arrangement as was recently put in place for the dioceses of Galway and Clonfert.
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I’m surprised al the Fr Jones’s don’t object to a bishop from England being parachuted in to take over the two Welsh dioceses. Imagine an Englishman being appointed to an Irish diocese.
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You couldn’t make it up. Another desk priest made a bishop.
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Desk Jockeys are all the rage for climbing the ladder in the RCC.
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@11.19am Yes another parish dodger and desk priest elevated. I have many interesting observations about Fr Mary (sorry Mark) when in Allen Hall. I am sure Tony Blair will be delighted about the Cardiff news as it was O’Toole who prepared him for Communion with Rome. Three S’s would describe him, sneaky, sly, stabber. His favourite Olympic sport back then was the Mens Swimming. There is lots to know about our Mary (sorry Mark).
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Posted here already. Stale news.
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What, it goes stale within an hour of Mark Tool being announced as new ++Cardiff? 😂
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@2.29pm Lol I remember the Mary O’Toole nickname and some called him catwoman. I agree very sneaky and sly. Not to be trusted. Would stab you in the back and front.
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He’s only 58. Well done to the dimwits on here, who dismissed the news that he was on the Westminster shortlist as hogwash. He’s a friend of Francis and a Divine Renovation fan. It has been reported on this site that he had been having Welsh lessons in recent years.
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12:18 You do realize Westminster isn’t in Cardiff don’t you? 😂
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Is he a Friend of Dorothy?
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It’s a stepping stone to Westminster.
Phyllis Whitmore to Plymouth. Christina Thomas to Auxiliary Westminster. Kitty Jordan to East Anglia.
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6pm, Kevin J, one of Basil’s boys. An ex-vet and army officer. Fruitcake.
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1.37 who is Kitty Jordan?
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It was a good idea to unite Menevia with Cardiff. Wrexham ought to be joined in as well as there are only 12 active diocesan priests working in the diocese and I think their youngest priest is 60! One diocese for wales with an auxiliary bishop is more than enough.
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Agreed.
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I think the diocese of Gibraltar has only about three priests.
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Gibraltar has only 1 nun left.
http://catholic.gi/diocese/clergy-consecrated-persons/
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Wonderful. The sooner all you freaks shuffle off the better.
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Unbelievably, one of the handful of Gib priests is a desk jockey.
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Was the £70,000 in addition to the covert payments for maintenance fraudulently made over the years from diocesan funds?
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11.30am A deliriously happy Bishop so……😂
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Pat have you frequented Mullaney’s Villa?
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No
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Thankfully your eyes Pat never viewed Mullaney’s Kitten Parties
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Stephen Wilson, Chris Derwin, Michael Byrne have all been previous booked entertainment in Mullaney’s Villa in Cap d’Agde 🫂💞
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12.52 Obsessed Mullaney & Wilson stalker alert yet again.
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Ryan McAleer, Brendan Marshall, Thomas McHugh and Stephen Wilson have been to the Yumbo Centrum in Gran Canaria. 👬👬
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Not even this Blog ( those who contribute as opposed to the Moderator) is beyond the Law. How would you know the whereabouts of anyone without physically or electronically “ stalking “ them ?
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I heard few stories about Bishop casey in Galway when we invited him. He drank a lot of wine and even slapped a waiter’s hand. We laughed at his slapping of hand wheh we heard it. From what I have heard was he drove a Mercedes as he’s a quite fast driver.
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Heard re his niece which was quite shocking and stunned at the same time. He was uncontrollable that they couldn’t handle him. There was one priest who could control him was Fr Michael Cleary, bouncer for many bishops so I heard.
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Interesting blog yesterday re Phonsie, a China in a bullshop again (is he?) 🙈🤷♂️.
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Think it should be reported to the charities regulator cos its people, who donated or gave money voluntary without any coercion.
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His favoritism and benevolent attitude as well towards RP but not SO towards fr Richard who broke no Canon law. He can’t have both ways as I understand he can’t be reoprted to the vatican.
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Any priests in W & L would quite careful to tread with him, or better still transfer out of Waterford (Fr Richard should have done that but maybe I don’t know the whole story therein).
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Sounded like a jekyll and Hyde Bishop or more aptly China in a bullshop Bishop.
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1:22pm I don’t think that simply applying for a transfer would solve a priests problem if a Bishop had taken against them. It’s a close network & once your card it marked you are basically f***** unless you are one of their privileged & well connected pets – look how they can move sex offenders about & foist them on new & unsuspecting communities as they have been proved to have been doing for decades.
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Jim will fix it for you at 2.19pm
Thanks for your explanation re transfers.
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Its well known that some bishops out there put a priest with previous abuses record into any ‘working class’, for ballymun or Edenmore(raheny area). I have heard the name of Tony Walsh a priest in ballymun when I was in cabra.its quite mind boggling that no successive Bishops took action. I knew a place in phoenix Park where t Walsh was seen there not far from the papal Cross.
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Bishops wouldn’t put a priest with sex abuses record into a rich parish or a parish that’s stuffed with millionaires. Cos rcc would lose a lot of money if they DID that. But in working class parish, rcc isn’t bothered about money as they let abuser priest run amok in a rampage like in Ballymun or Edenmore.
I’m not sure if there is a mandatory reporting of abuser priests NOW in Ireland especially to public authorities.
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Excellent post, DG.
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An iconic story of the real Eamonn Casey; several priests from my class from Kilmore found themselves appointed to Galway after ordination ( Kilmore was awash with clergy). Each of them were/ are very good men. One in particular in Galway was arranging a Confirmation ceremony for a very particular group of people. Casey told Father Martin Gilcreast that this group were not suitable ( not the words used) for such a ceremony. The priest went out of his way to bat for those people. They were confirmed in spite of Casey’s outrageous attitude to people not “ of himself.” Today he would never get away with such an attitude to such a group. The priest was very honourable.
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When Bishop Casey’s scandal broke, much was made of the fact that the woman was an American. Even now her US background is mentioned. Is the idea that, like Wallace Simpson, an exotic US temptress led astray a king/bishop and that the local ladies would not have got up to any such thing?
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2:30pm most cute hoor Irish priests are serviced by dowdy churchy looking types from “stable” backgrounds – it was noted long long ago that the foreign born ladies like Annie Murphy are far more likely to spill the beans & make demands. As Granny always says “it’s the quiet ones you have to watch”!!
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In the AM’s own words; “Maybe he thought, as a result of my father’s letter, he would be meeting someone gaunt and haggard. Instead, there was this relaxed, slim, young lady of 110 pounds in suede high heels and a flattering mauve dress, with small polka dots.”
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2.30
Precisely!
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Please say that talk of Philip Whitmore becoming a bishop is a joke.
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I don’t think it is. Even I am holding out hope and have been practicing pontificating since I was a deacon. I’m even on the diocesan safeguarding board so really think I should get some (even more) attention.
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2.32
I would think it is a joke as there are two very able Auxiliary Bishops in Westminster looking for a Dioceses for themselves one may wait and get Liverpool.
Westminster maybe filled this year as well.
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6.40 – so which Westminster Auxiliary isn’t able (they have 3)?
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7.15
The three of them are very able however Bishop Paul McAleenan is 71 and has cut down some of his engagements so looking forward to his retirement.
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Couples who had their wedding receptions cancelled during Covid are now being cancelled again by hotels responding to humanitarian war crisis. Media reporting A couple in Youghal who had their wedding reception cancelled & discovered that hotels are receiving the full rate of €200 per night per room to house Ukrainian refugees. Surely all these empty & big RCC houses with one priest who spends time at the boiler house anyway could be made available? Trump might even consider replacing his mover & shaker clientele of clergy, doctors etc., who can’t resist an Atlantic view, just like Eamon Casey with 24/7 bulk business at these rates.
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2.33: An utterly silly comment. So stupid. He us the number of refugees you are taking in!! Wonder why many families and individuals are changing their minds? Hotels are grabbing money through this crisis. I know of two couples who have do I d themselves in similar situations. Your disgust should be aimed at hotel management and our government.
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Does Mr Jones member need oxygen Who got Casey’s money
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One of those pumps might do the trick.
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O’Toole has lots of friends – beginning with CMOC and no doubt a close (or closeted) friend of Dorothy.
Rather spiteful and entitled man and part of the Magic Circle.
Wales is a backwater – Elsie pushed Stack there to get him out of his hair – what did O’Toole do to deserve Cardiff/Menevia?
Whitmore for Plymouth – no need to lock up your daughters but sons for defo and thick as thieves with Dorothy (isn’t that a prerequisite?)
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One of O’Toole’s brothers is a high profile friend of Dorothy and moved to Ireland, probably to his home county of Galway.
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Who the heck is this Dorothy?
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After living in London all his life it was convenient for his brother to go back to the homeplace in Connemara when O’Toole went to Plymouth. It would be embarrassing for Mark for anyone to know about his brother’s medical condition.
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A medical condition is a medical. No shame.
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Wasn’t there a plot to send Worlock to Wales which he thwarted? I guess Peter Smith used it as a stepping stone to better things.
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Important announcement for England and Wales -Bishop Mark O’Toole of Plymouth, England, appointed metropolitan archbishop of Cardiff. You heard it first here.
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Sad, really.
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@3.56 Yes we did but hours before you told us. Don’t you read the blog?
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@5.58pm I do not think this blog intends its correspondents to be rude when replying to a well made contribution. I announced the appointment. Your response was nothing other than rude. Please dissent from that affliction and apologise.
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Howling at 6:51.
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Oh 6.51 Get over yourself, you sound like a prim old madam!
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The holiday home’s interior luxury is reminiscent of the Parochial House of His Most Serene High Majesty The Parish Priest of Pomeroy, Co. Tyrone; truly reflective of a Christ-like modesty.
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@4.21pm The present Pomeroy PP and the interior of his house, well he was already accustomed to those stylish tastes in his former parish and his home parish also. David Moore was CC in Magherafelt, a native of Holywood parish, Co. Down. I knew him from Wexford days where his nickname was mammy moore because he mothered the younger sems.
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David Moore is a good man. He has had his measure of suffering from Clerics. We were never acquaintances nor friends…. but I realise all in the equation. Pat posted here recently that priests are anonymous on this Blog because of “ fear” ( not his word but mine) of the Bishop. That means some of the vindictive ones get to Blog what they bloody well like without censure ? Total imbalance surely. David Moore insofar as I am aware is caring and pastoral in nature. I would guess in line with a recent blog… he would not be good at saying no to what is taxing of his person and energy. That is compliment to him. I would be interested to know the angle of the Ordinaries nose to him. Not a question!!!!
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Well William, we are in no doubt whereabouts your nose is positioned regarding the cleric. You “opinion” is respected but I know many who would argue au contraire.
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Would you happen to be a brother priest?
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Oh God – how do you listen to him?!!!! 😂😂😂😂
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Philip Whitmore has a holiday home in Ryde, Isle of Wight. Not sure how luxurious it is though (no pics).
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6.56 😂😂😂😂😂😂🙏
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6.39 My nose is permanently angled at 75 to 80 degrees… no fault of my own! In another life I’d choose Richard Geres!!!!
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6.39 Are you one of the RCCs who sniff out vulnerability ( as a replacement of your own) and go to crush ….. the Francis type…. All bonhomie in public and ruthless where not discoverable.
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Seeing as how the desk priests prosper, even under this pontificate, might JJ yet be asked to take on Archidioecesis Tokiensis?
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6.29 A very corroded place despite great literature.
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The CBCOEW has been populated by FoD’s since for ever – those red blooded virile prelates: Heenan, Hume, Worlock (Gaylord) Jeez I could go on – O’Toole is like Reader (Monsignor) given clerical rewards for keeping stum (forever) about CMOC – remember he was arrested under caution for historic sexual abuse.
The Magic Circle is really nothing more than a Gay Circle – and like many a circle hard to penetrate!! Oh Mrs!!
Where is Stack off to in his retirement- what fancy pants property has he secured for services rendered?
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Stack is staying local to Cardiff. O’Toole has already said today that he will rely on him for advice pmsl.
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7.16
It seems Stack is staying in Cardiff and O’Toole said he is delighted at that.
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His Lordship Bishop Alphonsus Cullinan is back in the Diocese of Waterford and Lismore tomorrow.
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Good to know.
Where the bishop is not, there is no church.
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I have never commented on John Gates on this site before…. But it’s a wonder he was not struck from above for his treatment of David Moore. Before Gates takes to maligning me anonymously here…. I am not as irrepressible as they’d like me to be!!!!! I never believed that Armagh robbery.
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Moore and Mulvihill not the marrying types.
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9.39 Speaking for myself; how very incisive of you . Gombeen Homophobe as far as I am concerned.
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So what ???
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7.39
Did you forget, not only straight people may marry?
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Poor Moore. I would have thought he could stand up for himself. He can to my neighbour.
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7.56 You reflect the malaise in society; a mention of trouble and your canoe is pushed as far away as possible from the rest of them in the lake/ river or sea….. and paddle for yourself ( stand up for yourself). The deliberate isolationism of secular ministry in its own selfish preservation. Yea…. Go on there…. Stand up for yourself ( then every Sunday preach its opposite….for money).
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Andrew of Windsor might as well have been ordained for RCC ministry at this stage. Even York have “ episcopaliaed” him.
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York have just stripped him of his freedom of the city.
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Pat, I hope you don’t hate me because I speak anonymously. You have been an pivotal part of exposing wrongs. Some people are anonymous until the right time.
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Of course I don’t hate you. Keep going.
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Yes Pat. Armagh thanks you, long may you reign.
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Lisbreen is a luxurious palace where Bishop Balls Can stroll around his 4 acres listening to recordings of the MBE warbler whilst admiring his manicured lawns behind his barricade gates before retiring to his sumptuous drawing room to quaff some wines of finesse
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Phylis Whitmore is odd. She acts as though she is clenching a lemon between her buttocks. She’s of the white jacket and Panama hat brigade. They should send her to Liverpool for a bit of rough with a dockhand.
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Anonymity is the only thing keeps this Blog in traction. Even the individual who was not named from Waterford is symptomatic of a problem here. The Blog is closer to RCC Omertà than Bishop Buckley admits to ( I hope I don’t pay a high price for stating that…. But I am sick of anonymous comments defaming and denigrating without any recourse to origin).
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Dear Bill I fully understand your perspective. But this blog has a very definite direction and it’s not like any RCC. You will pay no price from me. I hold you in the highest regard and you are perfectly free to criticise me and this blog without consequence.
Anonymous comments allow the good as well as the bad , to speak.
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I Bishop Pat hold you in the highest regard, so much that I can state as I have. I suspect that many on this island who would like to admit their regard for you are not free to say so…. This Blog is the only platform I am aware of in the sphere of “ Catholicity “ where people are free to say what they think…. Anonymity is the price….. but it needs to be addressed, progressed and understood. As with the old adage about newspapers; paper never refused ink. Pat, I am glad to hear/ read those words from you. I would be entitled to be paranoid, I am not, but I cannot be sure who has poisoned the watering holes as my Aussie fellow citizens would say…. Sometimes I think they have got to you ( happy to declare that publicly). The “ Putridity “ is capable of anything. Blessings to you Bishop ( as valid as the rest of them!) Bill ( Mulvihill)
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THEY have not got to me and they will.
If they do, call a vet to “put me down”.
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Pompous bishops should remind themselves that their portraits which cost thousands of pounds to the commission, will be forgotten, sold for 100 eyes to adorn a pub wall.
https://auctions.victormeeauctions.ie/catalogue/lot/7793b5cef0ec8d6939851b0c7530ed61/ebe19057c7bab55225de5aa63c3d7b7d/antique-furniture-decorative-interiors-and-ecclesiasti-lot-152/
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https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/murray-james-4279
The bishop pictured was nephew of Archbishop Daniel Murphy sent off at 16 to study for the priesthood in Rome. Early vocation I suppose.
It really is a fascinating mix of the mundane (photocopiers, plates, projectors) to the fascinating (some interesting paintings, vestments, some fine pieces of furniture).
End of an era.
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The history DM left is his attack on the clergy that abused victims so his safeguarding will be his good point.
Sadly as everyone knows although he had two Assistants there was bad feeling so it really was a challenge for him.
However because he got heavily involved in Safeguarding it took over.
He should have tackled the far too many parish and some where or are dependant on the second Collection to survive.
At least he is up front before he retires many many other dioceses have far to many parishes but the Bishops do not have the bottle to close them more so those retiring in the next five years.
Rome has said the number of diocese is far too many as well but the Bishop’s seem to be ignoring this.
Sadly we do not need like to see Redundancy however some parishes and dioceses have far too many Lay workers’.
It is a peoples Church so let them come forward and assist THIER Parishes.
Some parishs maybe not be able to reopen as they lack volunteers and okay some parishes can pay professional cleaners but the Income is not there.
So VN retirement will not be happening till the Autumn now and maybe next years as he does not want to leave this situation unsolved.
And the New Archbishop may not be getting two auxiliaries however who knows how Eamon martin got an Auxiliary and he has a big Lay team as well.
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10.30pm Michael Router is not auxiliary to Eamonn Martin…..he was requested by Cardinal Brady. Lol….Lol The RCC could teach any military in the world dirty tricks…..Martin and Brady being partakers of same….Cinderella hour approaches….
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