“Dear Bishop Pat,
I am a longstanding priest of the Diocese of Waterford and Lismore.
I pen this after much thought and prayer and after discussions with colleagues.
Our diocese is being destroyed by a tyrant and a bully – Phonsie Cullinan.
Since he arrived our good name has been dragged through the mud by his irrational and right wing pronouncements on matters such as the cervical cancer preventative vaccine for girls and his antideluvian pronouncements on matters like yoga.
FR RICHARD GEOGHEGAN:
In the recent past he has bullied Father Richard into signing an application to Rome for laicisation. Richard always wanted to be a priest and was always a good priest. If you want to, visit Carrick on Suir and ask about him.
He has always been totally pastoral and famous for his punctuality. Children and adults loved his short but straight to the point homilies. He kept parish books and registers to perfection.
Richard also endeared himself to all with his humanity, his sense of humour, his non clerical friendliness and his involvement in parish events, pantomimes and dramas.
Yes, he was and is “different” – but in the very best of ways. Some say he is eccentric? But how refreshing a relief that is from the black suit and never smiling brigade.
He is a very sensitive man and Phonsie spotted that from the beginning and used it against Richard. Richard likes to be called Richard. But Phonsie taunted him by calling him “Richie”.
Phonsie made a point of sending for Richard after dark and we know that after some of those meetings Richard emerged to both cry and vomit.
Richard is a people person. Phonsie appointed him to a very isolated parish which had been left in a horrible state by his predecessor. Richard was driven, to attempt suicide an attempt that thankfully did not end in his death.
Phonsie often reminded him of that dark hour in a most unkind and non pastoral fashion.
Even at Confirmations now many children don’t want their children photographed with Phonsie.
Since he arrived Phonsie has always had a number of young men and women living with him in his house. Creepy! What is this about?
SUPPORT OF RICHARD PURCELL
None of us can understand the strange relationship between Phonsie and the now deposed Richard Purcell.
Phonsie supported him to the bitter end.
What was all this really about?
We know how much you love Waterford and Lismore. You finished your training in our seminary. You were ordained in our cathedral 46 years ago.
You were a lifelong friend of our Monsignor John Shine. And he thought as much of you as you did of him.
We were absolutely appalled at how Phonsie treated you at Monsignor Shine’s funeral by creating a totally unChristian scene and refusing you Holy Communion.
He even called for some of the priests present on the sanctuary to physically remove you from the church. My God!
Bishop Russell who ordained you was a gentleman. Bishop Lee was a good pastor to his priests.
Phonsie often says that you, Pat are “pure evil”.
But the priests and people of Waterford know who the truly evil one is – and its not you, dear Pat.
Even the retired Bishop Lee dreads Phonsie’s lunch invitations and offer those occasions up for the souls in Purgatory.
Please continue your close scrutiny of Cullinan so that we might soon be free of him.
With the kindest regards,
Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx
Waterford and Lismore”.
PAT
Dear Brother,
Thank you for your most welcome and self explanatory email.
I’ve known from the beginning that Phonsie was a disastrous appointment.
Now that clergy, parents and even the bishop emeritus are expressing frustration and angst things are really gathering pace.
He must be removed ASAP.
How that can be achieved is not clear.
Hopefully the Holy Spirit will intervene.
BISHOP PAT BUCKLEY 
479 replies on “DIOCESE OF WATERFORD AND LISMORE DYING FROM “PNONSIEITIS””
Phonsie is not a man of God. His sins will betray him.
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11.03 many of his colleagues are headed in the same sorry direction.
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This is an absolutely shocking letter.
It sounds like Richard was an excellent priest and was bullied out.
Shameful.
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Was Richard Geogheghan the priest Phonsie told to change his car and get something less flashy?
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12.34 Bishop Phonsie should pray for the green eyed monster to depart his black soul. How childish & inappropriate of him to interfere in Fr Geoghegans personal choice of car when others are far far more indulgent with themselves not only in the car department but also in more grevious underground considerations.
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No. Anyone who knows Fr. Richard will know that he’s not materialistic. Hasn’t changed his car since Phonsie arrived in Waterford.
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Yes Fr Richard is well regarded all round , particularly in Carrick,he was very poorly represented by the ACP, Phonsie must have got great pleasure in running rings around the left wing clown from the ACP
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The ACP is not worth a ball of blue.
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Fr Todd are you a Clare man ?
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Bishop Phonsie is a big bully with secrets, the support that Phonsie, Bishop Luggs Monahan and Abbot Coffey in Glenstal showered on Rawhide Purcell speaks volumes. Who exactly are the young men and women living in Phonsies house? Indeed, what’s that all about?
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9.30 Worse than the Irish Bishops.
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It’s the young men readers will be primarily interested in, their welfare, and what they’re doing there. The bishop is a confirmed bachelor.
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Who’s married to God.
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Fr Richard Geoghegan is a fine looking man, God Bless Him. Phonsie is jealous of his good looks and personality and of his popularity & is trying to crush his spirit, that’s what bullies do. Phonsie is a miserable and cruel control freak, he thinks he knows it all and it’s his way or the highway.
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I don’t know Bishop Cullinane at all apart from what’s expressed here and that’s not very kind or admirable and from his various public announcements about moral issues. Some of these have been embarrassing. However, I hold no respect for him after the manner of Fr. Richard’s treatment. The Bishop acted horribly unkind, un Christ like and in a vindictive manner. He seemed to have singled Richard out after his RTE appearance. His treatment of Richard warrants a thorough canonical investigation and a civil one too, if possible. Some Bishops are backwoods men – solitary, aloof, out of reach and out of touch. It’s a very revealing letter from a Waterford and Lismore priest. I hope Richard is ok now. How can we support him? Bishop Cullinane: act kindly, justly and humbly in the name of your God.
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12.33 In complete agreement with you, I concur entirely. Well blogged.
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12.33. What you see is what you get in some ways with Bishop Cullinane in Waterford. His various gaffes are frequently highlighted in the National press, it’s interesting to note that he does not take his lead from his fellow Bishops who instead opt make loaded bullets leaving their pals to fire them.
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Pat, did you hear about Phonsie singling out a teenage boy during confirmations Iin Ballybricken just after he arrived in Waterford. The silly kid was looking at his phone and Phonsie stopped the Mass and said “hey, you down there with the phone! Put it away or get out of here”. You can imagine the shame of the boy. He stayed but I’d say it was the last time he darkened the door of a church. That’s our glorious bishop, Alphonsus, for you.
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12.38 Bishop should have had the ability to be more diplomatic in his he addressed the child, perhaps respectfully address his parents to ask the child to put his phone away. He is like a bull in a China shop for sure but he probably wouldn’t have the balls to even consider addressing the child’s parents. Bullies prefer a smaller target.
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12.38 no one queueing to do that! An ear bender, guaranteed
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Phonsie has been collecting priests from India to work in Waterford & Lismore. This was working out ok until he decided to make them parish priests. He moved one of his favourites, Ricky O’Halloran, to the plum parish of Tramore and replaced him with an Indian as PP in Portlaw & Ballyduff. The Indian PP is a disaster. His first act was to dismantle all the parish committees and get rid of all women involved in the parish, incl. the sacristan. He has told the people that order must be restored and women have no role in managing any parish affairs. Good luck with that!The kiss of death to that parish.
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12.44 The orders being issued by the Parish Priest from India appointed in Waterford & Lismore Diocese clearly reflects the teachings of his Roman Catholic educators. Over and out.
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Ah Ricky O Halloran. Little Richie Rich wonder if he is still involved with his American boyfriend Welch?.
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Who are the young people who are living in Phonsie’s palace? That does indeed sound creepy.
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12.47 maybe they were homeless or had their homes taken away from them somehow???
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Pat, you should ask the C of I in Waterford what they make of Phonsie. The former Dean, Maria Jansson, had a few choice phrases. Then Phonsie doesn’t appear to be very “ecumenical”. No greetings for the new C of I bishop of Cashel, Ossory, Ferns, Leighlin, Lismore and Waterford. At least Nulty and Nash did their bit.
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Putting Richard G in Ballyneale and Grangemockler was designed to break him and it almost worked. What a nasty shepherd.
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Where is Phonsie getting all the money to spend on his mission house at Glencomeragh, the Rosminian house handed over to the diocese? Is it American right wing cash?
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12.53 Bishops & clergy have no moral compass on where the freebies originate. If it were possible to purchase ones way into heaven, the clergy would stay true to form using their elitist agenda of old.
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Who cares where the money came from, as long as it is doing good? Would you prefer it to be turned into a hotel, which is the usual fate of vocationless religious houses? I looked at its website. It is a fine looking place, doing good things.
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10.05 That’s right Father, who “cares” where the money came from. Wrong answer, fool!
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The drunken fool appears at 3:36pm. Yeah, it’s well known that criminal gangs channel their loot through retreat centres.
Please put the glass down.
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4.17 sounds disturbed & badly in need of a strong Coffee AGAIN ☕️. 3.36 doesn’t drink alcohol. Don’t brand others to suit your own agenda, brands can sizzle, ask any rancher, just because you are disturbed, drunk or both, whatever! The plight of Fr Richard Geoghegan is the priority here, not some heavy from the cover up merchant Clerical & Lay RCC Gestapo with a hangover or the hump or possibly both 😇☕️🤣☕️😇
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A lot of bitchy late night drunk gossipy clergy in Waterford judging by all these comments. Axes to grind springs to mind. They give themselves away sadly.
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I disagree
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@11.24 sound more like you are the one with the axe to grind, otherwise, why do their comments on a clear breach of the rights of Fr Richard Geoghegan as outlined here bother you.
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@ 11:42am
Sadly sounds like the pot calling the kettle black, reminds me of someone, guess who?
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I observed Shine being mentioned.. If he were alive, he’d be a subject to the Hickson Commission of enquiry into an attempted cover up regarding his nephew, Bill Kenneallys sexual abuse.. He topped himself however by overdosing on his meds
There’s vacancies about to arise within AGS quite soon and potential and successful prosecutions we suspect… Nonces at the cost of the taxpayer the lot
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12.55 Vatican City should be named Nonce City, a well earned and deserved title given complete the consistent re-abuse and continued vilification of victims and survivors deceased and living.
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Arguably all the Europeans and European descended people in Canada, the US, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa should pay up and go.
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12.55: Pater: the usage of the phrase “he topped himself” is greatly unfortunate. Do you realise it’s a “trigger” phrase for many people, that its a dismissive, careless, belittling and superfluous set of words for all who are depressed or going through darkness of any kind…Choose language carefully.
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Good point, 9.14.
There is a dehumanising callousness about such intemperate expressions, not just a dismissiveness.
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11.21 dehumanising callousness is what their inner circle hierarchy do very well in the Roman Catholic Church, blood on their hands.
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As a secondary school teacher, I’m well aware that it may not be the most appropriate term, however given the subject matter, the named individual, were attached to, I can’t say I’m overly bothered.
Of course, I meant no offence etc to any person that may be depressed.
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Pat – please remove this post. Guidance here https://www.samaritans.org/about-samaritans/media-guidelines/
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8.37: Peter: I hope you don’t treat your pupils in so arrogant, dismissive and ignorant a manner, especially vulnerable children or young people. I’d report you if I knew the school you teach in. You might need a therapy session. You idiot!
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Howling at the clergy pretending to have any concern for anyone except themselves. You don’t notice them being so vocal about clerical sexual abuse and I see they’ve started on teachers after their usual target of social workers.
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Have you seen some of the weird new orders that Phonsie is bringing into our diocese? The Servants of the Home of the Mother….what are they about? They seem to have blown over to W&L from Cloyne.
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What? Are they domestics?
How much do they charge per hour?
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2.57 pick up the dog and bone & give Bishop Phonsie Cullinan a buzz on the blower, he’ll let you know how much they charge, no doubt. If he’s in good form, he might even fax you a price list of their various services.
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Of course, you’d report me and then you’d meet real arrogance, such arrogance etc that you’d quickly flee I suspect. Our ‘Chief’ in school is tough as nails regarding nosey outsiders, in addition he’s my uncle.
Of course they’re are other entities for you to whinge to, however the types you’ll find there aren’t the most reasonable either. I’m afraid us teachers, regardless of where we are or where etc etc,tend to close ranks when it suits.
I’m unsure how my comment here is linked to my profession though..? Baffling to say the least.
As for you citing ‘Therapy’ lol, I’ll liase with the Career Guidance Councillor maybe, they’re trained in all that caper and one of ours is my 1st cousin so I’d feel most at ease.
BTW calling people ‘Idiots’ can be perceived as nasty… Did your teachers never tell you such? Perhaps you were standing on the corridor, whilst it was being instructed
Any way, off to bed here, cows to be milked in morning, change from my overtime work i.e. Marking state exams
Oíche Mhaith
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With all due respect to bishop Lee, Phonsie inherited a diocese where many of the priests didn’t give a damn about obedience to their ordinary. There are priests and ex priests of Waterford who boast about telling Willie Lee to “fuck off” when he attempted to get them to move parishes or diocesan roles. My confrère saying that Willie Lee was ” pastoral” to his priests makes me laugh. I think being pastoral in this context means taking it on the chin when told to eff off.
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Who is the Presentation nun Phonsie told to “stop singing like a jackdaw and to change her smelly knickers”? This happened in the city.
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Has Bishop Phonsie been living in a cave all his life, the Irish Catholic church has always had a consistent sprinkling of clerical & lay recruits possessing an elitist mind frame and sense of own self importance along with an encyclopaedic vocabulary on how everyone else should live their lives but somehow still seemingly themselves utterly incapable of finding the bathroom of a morning before stepping out to proactively evangelise to those whom they perceive as their inferiors, the intent being to ensure their wealthy benefactors continue to profit from same church related agenda.
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9.19am Bishop Phonsie comes across as a bit of caveman all right in the newspapers reporting on his outbursts. Many of these clerics & their catlicks appear to treat women, children and the vulnerable with disdain and contempt & potential targets for abuse when opportunity presents. Vomit inducing opportunists
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Amy got rid of a Sr Mary from Armagh who posted a few times on this blog in the past. She would reveal things about the clergy there and she was a mouthy so and so. Amy got shut of her when her identity was exposed by another fellow nun.
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I knew the Sr Mary you refer to @11.41am. She was betrayed by one of her own. I can’t say anymore. The Archbishop wanted her OUT immediately of his diocese for giving a few comments on this blog. I have his harsh proof in writing. She was a kind person and had a hard life and upbringing. It seems to me that any religious or otherwise who posts on this blog and found out is reprimanded and punished. Is that not a form of abuse?
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Howling at the Sr Mary fantasist replying to himself.
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11.41 where is Sr Mary from Armagh now, is she ok?
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2.23 dated dossier on its way to Bishop Pat etc.
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The thought of a nun – a woman (presumably) – on here 😱😱
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@1.41 am
That is disgusting, it’s a bit like telling a man to change his smelly underpants.
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1.41 very rude of Bishop to say that to nun – no wonder nuns have literally disappeared – perhaps Pope Francis should inform Bishop Phonsie to stop crowing his outlandish nonsense that we read in newspapers & what’s all this Phonsie & his pals hanging out with Rawhide Purcell – another strange one.
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Bergoglios offsider is trying to start WWIII, Nancy Pelosi wants to visit Taiwan. Only needs being met in that visit will be her own, very Franciscan.
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6.08 would Nancy not be an aul devil and invite Frankie to join her on a tour of Argentina 🇦🇷
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Francis has visited more than 50 countries but shuns Argentina. In a long essay in the London Review of Books, Colm Toibin gives some of the reasons, and they are not good for Francis.
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v43/n02/colm-toibin/the-bergoglio-smile
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Go back to his days teaching in the primary school. I wonder how he spent his spare time and long holidays. Werner Utri was a primary school teacher before ” God called him.”
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Dear Bishop Cullinan,
I know you are a paid up member of Hopeless Days like the Incumbent in Armagh.
Was it Donal O’ Cuilleanan who recruited you ?
I resisted his overtures for assimilation myself.
Yours Very Frankly,
William Mulvihill
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6.50 Or were you recruited by an underling ? You know….small currency back then were you ?
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Pat, in relation to, ‘psychic rape’, as I mentioned, it’s a term I coined to describe what was done to me by a psychiatrist I had the misfortune to encounter.
I am not going to mention the who, what, where, when, and why, at the moment. Briefly, I experienced dissociative symptoms on a Sunday. Such systems are associated with trauma. I saw a psychiatrist mid-week and was admitted to hospital the following Friday. The psychiatrist subsequently wanted to administer a course of ECT. This was blocked. So, instead, he put me on a medication for ‘an illness’ which had a significant depressive component. I had no depressive symptoms whatsoever. I was subsequently hospitalized again a year and a half later. The psychiatrist then changed the medication. I was never diagnosed with clinical depression, schizophrenia, or bi-polar disorder. Two highly respected educators/therapists, independently, told me, all I needed was a listening ear and to cry- a year or two years maximum of psychotherapy. Instead, I was given ‘a career’ by a psychopath masquerading as a doctor. This psychiatrist precipitated a psychotic breakdown, Pat. In layperson’s language, he drove me mad. There is substantial detail surrounding this entire matter. I’m only scratching the surface in this brief account. The Church knows a considerable amount, including the various medications used by the psychiatrist. So, ‘psychic rape’ means; to drive a person mad, knowingly, deliberately, and maliciously. The outcome – profound suffering. I’m another of the shunned sheep, rejected Catholics, persona non grata. So be it.
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Jesus, talk about over sharing.
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@ 3:30 Error…systems….. is…Such symptoms are associated with trauma.
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@4:29 You are out of line. Let victims use this blog to talk about their trauma.
@3:30 You should be able to feel safe to tell your story on this blog and Pat did ask for you to explain psychic rape. You are courageous and I am sorry for the way you have been treated by the RCC and by a few nasty individuals on this blog.
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@ 4:29
There’s plenty more to share.
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5:05
Thank you, Karen.
I appreciate your kind thoughts. My God, you don’t need to express sorrow for how I was treated by the RCC. After your experiences! I don’t consider myself a victim. I’m a survivor. And I don’t need to talk about my trauma on this blog. I chose to talk about it. A very long story. Best wishes, Karen. 🙏
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@9:35 Thank you. I hope you will choose to share more of your story. God bless you & give you peace of mind 🙏.
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Karen at 5:05 Yes you should feel safe to do so. However as you know the clergy are determined to make sure nobody feels safe to say anything on this blog and not everybody is as… determined as you yourself are.
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Pat,
You are aware of much of my story. The level of interference into
my life as a consequence of what happened to me, why it happened
and how it happened, is absolutely appalling. In fact, a leading
Irish psychotherapist, an author, and International conference speaker,
told me he had never come across a case as bad as mine, involving so
much interference in a person’s life. Bishop Cullinan is aware of my case.
I have strong reasons to believe a priest of the Diocese is also aware of my case.
A person’s life can be ruined for no reason whatsoever other
than a person is perceived as a potential threat. My story
involves; psychic rape by a psychopath, my good name ruined,
my career ruined, calumny, physical assault, wifi hacked,
phone hacked, threats, etc. In 2015, following an incident,
nobody in my local Christian community- the community of love-
spoke to me, or asked me what had happened, as if what
had happened was a regular occurrence.
(One lady- a daily Mass-goer- did ask, two years later, etc)
Pat, I have a Diploma, a Hons 2.1 Degree, two MA Degrees, yet
I am considered unemployable. I have a wooden chest full of
evidence going back years, including a letter for a lecturing
position in 1994, a letter from a medic in 1995, a letter from
a Garda Superintendent in 1996, etc. That’s only for starters, Pat.
In more recent years, I have correspondence from Archbishop Okolo,
Bishop Cullinan, and a priest of the Diocese, etc. I have purposely and
deliberately widened the circle of who knows my story over the last
number of years for very strong reasons, including safety reasons.
I do not have friends or associates in the priesthood.
I told Bishop Cullinans colleagues in Rome, in a letter,
in conscience, I cannot, nor will I keep my mouth shut
after what happened to me. I didn’t tell them how I was
going to make my story public. I want to make this perfectly clear;
I did not ask or seek financial compensation from the Diocese.
Believe it or not, the Lord is the lotto, the Truth sets us free.
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Pat, was publishing this comment really a good idea? Psychic rape???
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12:30
Will do, Pat. Later this afternoon.
And, no @ 12:38, I don’t need to check the internet. Lol.
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@ 8:25. Have I aroused your curiosity? Oh, I’m full of great ideas. In fact, I’ve been described as a genius by a number of people. So, if you wish, with Bishop Pats approval, I can submit on a weekly basis, a more detailed account on all of the above, including a thorough explanation of ‘psychic rape’, describing its process, procedure, and outcome.
@ 11:01. Thank you. My condolences on the death of your cousin. Thank you for the link.
With respect, you don’t know what you, obviously, don’t know of my case.
It was not emotional abuse. I coined the term ‘psychic rape’ when discussing with my therapist what happened to me. My therapist agreed and thought it a very appropriate apt description. I wish you well. I will remember your extended family in prayer.
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I would like you to explain psychic rape
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@12:25 Thank you and I look forward to learning more from you about “psychic rape”. Best wishes.
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@ 2:57 pm
Handle snatcher!
So you talk to the animals- a modern day Dr. Dolittle.
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7:30 I can identify with your pain and suffering. I am very sorry for the abuse you suffered at the hands of the RCC clergy. Emotional rape is perhaps a more accurate term for what you have experienced?
I saw a notice posted in St. Finnachta church when I went in to light a candle for my cousin who died yesterday under tragic circumstances. It said at the end: “perhaps like most of us here you are looking for acceptance, support, understanding, compassion and community. Tá Fáilte Romhat.” There is virtually no acceptance, support, understanding, compassion and community available for those of us who are whistleblowers in the RCC. In my opinion, posting a notice like that is pure virtue signalling on the part of the church. I wish you well going forward. The Truth does set us free.
https://psychopathsandlove.com/emotional-rape/
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Pat explain “psychic rape” and raise you 20 for anyone to explain “emotional rape”, neither exists but I guess everything does if you go looking on the Internet for someone to try verify insane notions 🤪 I’m going out to feed my unicorn.
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Psychic Rape
Sometimes synonymous to the word “telepathic rape.” This happens when a man/woman masturbates while imagining someone who’s not aware. That someone is being psychic-raped given that she/he doesn’t have any knowldege or haven’t given a consent to the person who is fantasizing them. This is a misdemeanor and can be labeled as a federal offense.
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12.38 why do you keep a unicorn Father, why don’t you keep a regular horse like normal people that doesn’t have a big horn sticking out of its head. I don’t trust unicorns, they look cute but nonetheless, their weapon is in full view.
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12:38 Why don’t you go feed your obtuse ego while you are at it?
https://feminisminindia.com/2017/10/31/emotional-rape/?amp
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@12:00 of course you don’t, but I don’t think you are going to make is as a great philosopher either. My dog considers me a genius too.
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@2:01 How about you teleport yourself off the blog?
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@4.29 pm
Quiet! Let this person speak.
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Can I have chips with my unicorn steak please?
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If it weren’t so gravely serious, it would be almost laughable that Bishop Phonsie would have the front to name Bishop Pat Buckley as pure evil whilst he and his colleagues & members openly engage in defaming a popular and well respected clergyman of good character, Fr Richard Geoghegan, blatantly bullying and harassing him out of ministry whilst they vigorously and viciously support the retention of highly dangerous and damaging clergy that prey on seminarians and parishioners. It’s Crystal clear who the truly evil ones are in the Irish Catholic Church hierarchy spreading their poison from the top down.
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It’s Disney Princess theology again. You literally only ever see yourself as the goodie, and because you’re identified with good/God, anyone who criticises or opposes you is automatically evil.
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Oh yeah, the Disney Princess theological approach all good/all bad psychologically
known as splitting. Its frequently used with the whatever you say say nathin
keep stum complicit silence cos the holier than thou brigade know it will be alright
on the night but in the meantime no thanks is due to them. God is in their back pockets.
They think in their holier than thou huddles they are the good guys/ gals and its stuff the rest.
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@12:38 🦄 I do love the source, a feminist Web site from India? 🤣 do you source other stuff from Waterford whisper news?
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4.18
I don’t think you sense the sarcasm in my comments. You must not be Irish.
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I would get life without parole if I had to ask permission everytime I masterbated while fantasing about someone without their consent 😆
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@4.52 Bella does it to Jim S everyday as she only looks for his comments and there is none today so far.
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5.10 I’m feeling very cyber raped right now.
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5.43 Then stay off the net.
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@ 5:06pm
No Jim S but your on commenting Now aren’t you.🙄
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What is happening about the €70,000 allegedly stolen by a priest in Bishop Cullinans Diocese?
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I keep my unicorn in the same place as I keep my bible? In a fantasy land far far away. The same place you clearly reside!
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If I was a sensitive delicate wee flower that gets offended easily like most of the people on here that do that don’t stay off the net. then I probably would.
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Reading back through these blogs, it is sadly very clear to see that the Bishops have a proven history in putting out all the stops to cover up all manner of church connected inhuman behaviour by their members. Hopefully Fr Geoghegan will shortly receive the recognition and justice that is long outstanding to one of the few decent priests left in Ireland. He’d make a much better Bishop than Phonsie Cullinan and Bishop Cullinans connections to Rawhide Purcell and related matters deserve much closer scrutiny as cornered rats are most dangerous individuals and their treatment of their perceived enemies who are in fact victims of Roman Catholic Church related abuse and wrong doing is noted.
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Why did Cullinane pull Edmond Cullinane out of Carrick-on-Suir to make him Adm. in his Cathedral to then appoint him to what His Disgrace D. Martin used to refer to as “que schifo” all through his time as a Roman Bureaucrat ? Thats The Irish College Rome to His Disgrace’s uninitiated. WM
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If this is how good clergy like Fr Geoghegan are treated, the end is nigh and well deserved it is too. Good riddance to the rest of the cover up merchants.
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I now realise, only in recent weeks, why Dargan hated Pat Buckley…along with others.
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Click to access WL_Policy_Whistleblowing_Policy.pdf
WHISTLE BLOWING POLICY
of the Diocese of Waterford & Lismore.
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9.34 Hypothetically speaking, what does one fill out when it might be the bishop himself one wants to raise concerns over ? Bishops, do they carry the identity cards that they insist on priests ? WM
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9:51 Bang on, Bill.
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Where is Rawhide?
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9.36 In the kitchen.
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@9.46 am Lillian
Hahahaha – your comment made me laugh a lot. Hehehe
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9.36 where is Rawhide or indeed any of the other missing clerics from the various diocese in Ireland?
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Send him over to me when your finished.
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Bishop Buckley, Cullinane may prove to be your first episcopal scalp through the instrument of The Blog. All the comments are headed in the same direction. Calling +379……Pronto…….Are you listening Waterford ? You should be….
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If what I have recently been told, Eamon Martin has my respect and sympathy on this one. He is up against an even darker story that I could have countenanced. But perhaps not, fiction, truth, who knows. WM
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Mulvihill @9.38am That post about Archbishop Martin just proves what a bullshitter you really are. Totally deluded! Do you even remember the secrets you shared with the Arch about Pat Buckley at your secret meeting in Armagh?
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His Humbleness will participate today in a native “smudging” ritual during his visit to Canada, which will see him perform a “ritual of purification” in which “mother earth” is prayed to as a kind of pantheistic deity.
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@ 10:02am
That oul heretic has to go, he’s a disgrace.
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10.02 The tyres on the wheels of the wheel chair will turn the rainbow colours, part of the last secret of Fatima. WM
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@ 10:19am
You are a very naughty bold boy Bileen
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10:02 My Gaia not again.
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Richard Purcell has a dark connection to Emlyn McGinn, Stephen Wilson and Ryan McAleer. All part of the same underground sex network.
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10.04 That is correct, as I am now aware. The network is wide, alarmingly so, astonishing. WM
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10.31 Thank you. Wink wink.
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10.45 underground network is all over the Island of Irish RC. We don’t know the half of it, yet but at least more clergy and laity are coming forward from the quagmire of deceit and depravity.
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I do not know and find it incredulous still, but that there are two bishops connected to it….
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Once again the blog is being take over by William Mulvihill.
Pat, can you not restrict the number of times this man posts?
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I don’t restrict ANYONE ‘ only those who seek to abuse and put victims down and defend the indefensible
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10.18 Thank you, Bishop Pat.
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10.18
So, in your opinion Pat, some people have no right to a defence? Isn’t this a contradiction of your oft-stated assurance that those criticised on your blog will be allowed an unedited reply? You seemed to stand very high on that assurance. You seemed a man of your word.
These two statements (rehetorical questions) do not sit well together; they make you look a rank hypocrite.
Yes, I’m the commenter you ignored about an hour ago. That’s fine, if this is your way of dealing with legitimate challenges. But it’s hardly mature. Or just.
EVERYONE is entitled to a defence; it’s a basic principle of law. But you don’t like that, when it doesn’t suit your agenda. However, you would appreciate the principle a little more if it happened to affect you. Remember this is how Jesus was shortcutted to the Cross, by ignoring due process.
No, Bishop Cullinan is not Jesus, but you are acting more like Pilate than Jesus.
My earlier comment abused no one, nor did it put anyone down. And yet, you didn’t publish it. Moral cowardice.
As for the so-called indefensible, even those accused of murder are allowed a defence, but you disallow such a defence for those alleged to have done much less?
You can refuse to publish this comment, too, but the fact that you are acting not from justice but much more from a deep disllike of Bishop Cullinan is obvious, and will remain.
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The bottom line is that clergy have long been using the Gospel to suit their own agendas:
Dictating to laity to forgive in matters that would reveal RC agenda in true light – clergy & laity extending this heinous practice in more recent times to beyond the pulpit as mass goers see through the hypocrisy and walk away in droves.
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9:46 Of course not. Kiddy fiddling clergy have been defending paedophile priests on here.
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That’s lies Pat, total lies…. You restrict and post what suits you. But hey- it’s your blog and you seem to have nothing else to be at.
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10.17 Getting a bit hot under the collar there ? Coming to a town near you before the Parousia. Metaphorically of course, not too fond of The Sticks.
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Commenter at 9.46 conveniently overlooks the shameless way that the well connected network of the Roman Catholic Church worldwide has and continues to vehemently obstruct the right of victims and survivors to any measure of defence and/or justice.
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9:46
The Blog today was written by a Waterford priest, not me.
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9.57
I overlooked nothing. My focus was Pat Buckley’s not publishing legitimate posts in defence of Bishop Cullinan. It is a non sequitur to deduce from this that I don’t condemn other such injustices, whether committed by the Church, or by anyone else.
Whatever Bishop Cullinan is alleged to have done, he is entitled to a defence. I should not have to point this out.
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4pm you are reminded that the focus of this blog is to expose Roman Catholic Church related abuse, corruption and criminality. Bishop Phonsie Cullinan is quite welcome to post on this blog and defend himself, it is noted that he certainly has no issues verbalising so sure that a powerful member of RCC like himself doesn’t require an anonymous whinging mouthpiece stating his case for him. Bishop Phonsie of course also has the option to defend himself though the Irish court system should he be advised there is a case to answer. I look forward to attending with documentary evidence to support the opposition. Yours most sincerely, Crocodile definitely not Dundee
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10.36
Whatever, Bill.
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Phonsie has taken a trip lately https://waterfordlismore.ie/diocesan-trip-to-kenya/
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10.19 what has Bishop Phonsie done about the children in his Waterford and Lismore Diocese that badly need school meals in these difficult times. If he had funds to spare after cleaning up his own backyard, he could have sent the money he and his group spent on flights and everything else out to the poor children in Kenya. More Two faced hypocritical carry on from Bishop Phonsie. Hopefully he didn’t tick off the Kenyan people that might not have had access to water to wash in before meeting him bearing in mind what he said to the Presentation nun, her presentation obviously not up to his high standards, chances are the poor nun WAS NOT sitting on €70k like the priest Bishop Phonsie allegedly facilitated & kept him in office unlike Poor Fr Geoghegan left out in the freezing cold against the wishes of his colleagues and parishioners who continue to hold him in the highest cod esteem.
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I hate these fact-finding junkets by charities and dioceses to Africa. Didn’t Noel Treanor go on one of those trips? What a waste of money, time and carbon. The cash spent on these trips could have gone on aid instead.
Similarly annoying is the Habitat for Humanity nonsense whereby untrained young Westerners raise funds to pay for them to go on housebuilding jaunts in Africa. Much better not to spend the money on flights and to give the money instead to local builders in Africa.
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@12.42pm Get filling your Trocaire box soon because they fund the flights and hotels for Irish bishop’s travel to Africa for faux sympathy. They have learned a good lesson from a good past champion of Trocaire – Eamonn Casey.
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Marie showed great courage and integrity when she resigned from the Vatican’s Commission for the Protection of Minors and Vulnerable Adults citing “that the whole abuse crisis was handled with fine words in public and contrary actions behind closed doors”. This confirms the experience of many whistleblowers in RCC related wrong doing.
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Also need to fill your Trocaire box to pay the €200k a year rent that St Patrick’s College Maynooth charges Trocaire for using vacant seminary bedrooms as offices.
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@9.46 Well said 🙏
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2.10 Tricaire needs truthful exposure….good work maybe….but tangentally The perks for the bishops conference….well you know…..Justin Kilcullen when the CEO enjoyed a very particular wine bar as I did myself on Exchequer St . I wonder?
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Any excuse for a foreign trip paid for by congregations. World Youth Day also fails to translate into revitalising the Roman Catholic Church.
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Does anyone know the name of the school where A. Cullinane was a teacher ( Principal I think but not 100 percent sure) ?
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Bill it is public knowledge teaching for six years in Castleconnell, County Limerick, and for two years in Spain.
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9.48 Thank you. I did not know, public knowledge on the like of A. Cullinane does not enjoy wide dissemination but thats. Lol ……Maybe I shall take a trip to Spain . Lol Lol Lol. Not a fan of Spain or Spaniards . The Portuguese and The Spaniards as colonial powers wiped out races. If they had gone to Canada or Australia, we would never know of the Aboriginal peoples of those lands. Roman Catholics don’t you see, no souls to the indigenous they found so they slaughtered wholesale. The gall of that Argentine to apologise, he means not one word of it, its about damage limitation for his putrid multinational. William Mulvihill 2 mins Au revoir !!!
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9.48 what school is Fr Jerry Carey affiliated to?
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Was the school in Spain an Opus Dei school? Is Phonsie a member of Opus Dei?
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9.48 did Bishop Phonsie teach Fr Ger Fitzgerald in Castleconnell?
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@1.06 he was prominent in Opus Dei in Limerick. He really is nasty – arrogant, angry, like those aggressive Christian Brothers in the old days
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11.05 Colaiste Mhuire Ennis. Current status unconfirmed.
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Many Limerick people still speak in heartfelt horror of negative experiences they had & witnessed in certain religious schools here. Awful.
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@4.25 I went to a CBS in Limerick. We got hidings and humiliated regularly but it was the mid 80s so GBH and sexual assault werent happening, at least not obviously. Gemma Hussey put the foot down.
That said I know of older past pupils who were both beaten and raped. Broken men now, good job RCC.
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I shall be gone by 11.00 hours Fathers and Bishops. Breathe !!! WM
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10.40 Have a very good day Bill, keep clear of the sticks, the more pointy ones are sticking out like a sore thumb on the blog & elsewhere these days!! Not for this forum, will speak 🗣 to you elsewhere. Take care.
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Billy O Keefe, X Waterford and Lismore priest, a good one and decent fellow, would know whats what in Waterford. A local and well connected. I would say he has outgrown the entire dysfunction that is priesthood in the Latin Rite.
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Indeed Bill, I would say he has….
How many properties has Phonsie bought for his coterie of sisters and priests in recent times???
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Roger. Remember the name as Ratzinger said when he once introduced the then auxiliary of Melbourne Archdiocese. Not for the same reason bien sur. WM
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Qualification for the learned, The Portuguese did land in Australia before the British but the Portuguese left immediately
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That’s what’s kept the circles of complicity and cover up in the church networks going for so long but looks like it can cut both ways now. Only pure rot left fighting in the trenches with a dwindling army. Give them no oxygen. Phonsie loves oxygen. Fr Geoghegan has been grievously wronged on all levels and this must be rectified and lessons learned. Phonsie must go, Bishops & clergy appointed by Pope & who blatantly refuse to live the word of the Gospel in their daily role are toxic influences and examples & breed further rot in the system. Rotten from the top down.
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Pat you should meet Stephen Wilson’s DLP. The DLP has all his records and recent psychological evaluation.
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12:37pm A disgraceful, bullying comment by a stalker.
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Ok Ryan
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Bishops are unsackable positions unless frankie now land of Trudaeu decide otherwise.
Couldn’t understand why Geoghegan didn’t fight when phonsie pushed him out🤷♀️
Geoghegan should be entitled the right to defend himself re process of lacisation imposed by his very own Bishop. It sounded unusual, given the circumstances that I don’t really know fully to the extent. He should appeal it or spill the secrets either way.
Perhaps Robert Hourigan might help him out 🤔
Noticed his letters to Rome and the signora tribunal no longer posted here re updates. Suspected that owner of this blog was stringing us along for maximum publicity and exposure.
His MO is quite obvious, maximum exposure.
How did phonsie get that bishopric job? Opus dei no longer a personal prelature.
Nuncio picked the wrong choice unless previous others turned down that job. That nuncio is gone now.
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Member of Irish police force has been jailed for 3 years & 3 months for coercive control of his terminally ill partner.
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We call them Gardaí. Shocking case.
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We do, too.
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2.30pm You sound surprised? Paddy the Irish man or woman likes to think this island is a place of safety under benign protection. Fools. And what about Hitler teachers who deny a man rightful access to his children; ah yea, Paddy the Irishman does not want to hear about that: so they don’t tell us!!@@!!
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WM 5:38, those who play our finest of Gaelic Games at the highest level tend to get away with speeding. An investigation is still ongoing in to Gardaí in the Midwest. I don’t think anyone doubts that it happens all around the country. The Gardaí have a Pulse computer system. Removing or falsifying records leaves a trail.
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2.30
There are shocking cases in the catholic church, Seamus.
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Criminalising coercive and controlling behaviours in jurisdictions worldwide will serve victims and survivors of church related abuse greater protections and redress. High time the chattering classes & their clerical directors of operations with their perceptions of using abuse of others for entertainment value & falsely imagining that they have nothing to lose thus far by joining in with abusive regimes including the Roman Catholic Church smelt the coffee ☕️ Good news for all currently suffering at the hands of hierarchy & their appointed laity in the Roman Catholic Church. Amen.
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If the author and his colleagues conspired to write this would the change on mass to CofI and bring their congregations with them?
Voting by walking out is often the most effective measure.
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I wish CINOs would go to the Anglicans, but they won’t. The refusal to do so an ethnic thing, plus there’s a collective memory of past persecution by the Anglicans. Another reason is that, in their heart of hearts, even CINOs don’t believe that Anglicanism is the real thing or that their sacraments are valid. They might get a shock if they went to a typical Irish Anglican parish – quite a different beast to the English Anglican variety.
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People voted by walking out after Vatican II.
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No they didn’t – the priests n bishops let them down
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That Garda Thug just got over 3 years….too lenient. Any way of establishing how much pepper spray he used on his handcuffed victims like Zara Johnson did on men at 14.10 of an afternoon in 2018? Lock Paul Moody up.and throw away the key. Along with the rest of his abusive kind . Root them out now. William Mulvihill
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2.37 …..on me not men….on me….error, Wm
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Emelyn Mc Ginn was/ is particularly friendly with Pat Magee and that collection of couples with a Blackrock Co. LOUTH connection. Pat was the equivalent of a cardinal in the Gardai. When he came to my father’s wake on Holy Saturday that year, I said to him ” Pat, I hear they have made you a bishop.” ” No” says Pat, ” Bill, they have made me a cardinal.” Noirin and Co attended his retirement bash. Not a compliment by my standards. Protection for the likes of Fr. MC Ginn ? William Mulvihill
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You are figthing back MM after you saying you are ending posts earlier? You are a tout to Amy
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WM hitting out at his own scandal.
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6.32 Check the etymology.
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People of different denominations come forward for Holy Communion all the time. Noone bats an eyelid.
I hope Fr. Richard is enjoying a nice time in Kilkenny.
+AC was left completely embarrassed by the Cistercians and he has only himself to blame.
+AC was fully correct to be critical of the abortionists however. He merely advised that those who voted for the abortion holocaust should go to confession. Mary McAleese has no intention of going to confession. Thou shalt not kill anyone Mary.
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Jesus bats an eyelid. Those who are not in communion should not receive Communion.
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8:38, let’s say that Dom Benedict Andersen and the Persecuted Seminarians of America start their own community as followers of Christ.
If any of these men of good standing presented themselves for Holy Communion. Are you sure that an eyelid will be batted?
The man who has dipped his hand into the bowl with me will betray me. Where is the sign of betrayal by Dom Benedict Andersen and the Persecuted Seminarians of America? The indications are that Dom Benedict Andersen has been betrayed. The Persecuted Seminarians of America have also been betrayed.
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9:33
Once again you failed to mention British and Irish seminarians, Seamus.
British and Irish seminarians have also been betrayed.
Dom Benedict Andersen deserves a letter of good standing.
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10:01,
Inch by inch, row by row
Gonna make this garden grow.
One step at a time.
Pax.
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Here’s today’s social worker scandal. Clinicians in a hospital warned that a baby was at risk – social workers overuled the hospital. The mother killed the baby. Any comment, MMM?
https://news.sky.com/story/woman-found-guilty-of-infanticide-of-10-week-old-daughter-who-was-discharged-into-her-care-against-medical-advice-12656821
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Bullying of an old man by Catholics as usual.
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So MMM is a vulnerable old man, according to you two? How rude!
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I see Haringey social services is involved, as usual. MMM and the other socialworkbots can’t come out with the usual excuse about it being privitised. Haringey social services is public sector.
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3.16 indeed they cannot be kept away from the vulnerable but only if there’s a pound to be screwed from the exercise in some way. Self interested Hypocrites who are Beneath contempt.
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Senior and not so senior Gardai complicit with RC Bishops and clergy in the cover up of sexual abuse in this country, period. William Mulvihill
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The RCC is feudal and monarchical in its management- many a bishop I have heard say ‘“We are not a democracy” when flexing how own limited powers.
They are benign but often malign dictators and a law into themselves – Francis behaves like this – he authorised the bugging of phones, interception of electronic devices and surveillance without seeking permission from the judiciary of the state – the RCC is fundamentally lawless and inclined towards criminality and undermining the dignity of the human person.
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Saw Elsie and the nun in Lourdes strolling along. Got a pic of them and he didn’t look happy. Any facts regarding this potential scandal to the faithful?
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FR HAGAN CC in Donaghmore & Pomeroy
FR WILSON CC in Dundalk
Where are the MIAs? No Mention!!!
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Where are they published? I can’t find them. Thanks.
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They are oh the Diocesan web site Google it if you are struggling ie is dioceses of Armagh
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Pat, you are in a thruple with Richard. Let’s be honest and be clear. A Larne source has confirmed it.
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What is a “thruple” ?
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A couple needs two cups for tea, a thruple needs three. Need to know how many cups I need to put out for tea Father 😊
Not my comment, but since another anonymous is using words they can’t explain 🤷🏻♀️
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Don’t thruple thruple, till thrupple thrupples you. (To paraphrase Niall Ahern, who made me do an extempore speech in his speech class on the proposition “Don’t trouble trouble, till trouble troubles you”.)
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On the positive side Ger Fitzgerald seems to have inherited the family home. Hopefully now he can move on, resign the priesthood and make a go of life.
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5:48 Ger will never resign. How will he pay off his debts? Have you not been reading the blog? Lugs is taking him to canon court. Ger’s canon lawyer thinks he has done nothing wrong.
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What debts does he have?
There was unsubstantiated stuff about 17k but who does he owe money to?
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8.41 Fr Ger Fitzgerald can do what other people do, mortgage his house get a job & settle his debts! 🙄 it’s not like he’s disabled or anything. He can rent out a few bedrooms, tenants might even buy the chips on Sunday night. No fear of him. Never was, he knows it too. Slicker than he looks is Fr Ger.
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Kerry Diocese Youth Services is promoting condoms and lube.
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Well done to Fr Godley, he’s an intelligent priest no doubt
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No doubt the reverend clergy are always topped up on their PReP.
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Are they free to bishops and priests as well?
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A kinda creeoy thing for a priest to be involved in, after all that’s happened. Interesting euphemism – “products”.
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Most priests go BB and don’t use condoms.
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9.02
You should know, Bill.
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8.42 Can you get anal warts in your mouth from a priests hands when he is distributing communion if he has been “…………..” the night before and has not been hygienic? Filthy practice, the distribution of communion. As for the Chalice….
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@9.02 pm
I agree with you re the chalice. Since the return to Mass after Covid our priest takes the chalice on behalf of the parishioners. Good thing as I wasn’t going to take the chalice after Covid. Full of germs even before Covid.
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The GAA is to take part in Belfast Pride on Saturday. Archbishop Croke will be spinning in his grave. It will be interesting to see how many male players take part, or will it be mostly camogie players and the blazer wearers from the county boards in the parade?
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Pride is offensive to God. Pride promotes homosexual acts.
People who commit these acts cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven.
Please waken up to this truth while there is still time. Hell is not a happy place, nor is it just for the weekend.
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Ask the EF guy in Glasgow – Mark Morris – not Chris (although they are related by ma nipple) what happened when he expressed his pride opinions! 🤣 🌈
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8.12
I might do as you advised, if I could understand what it is. Your post is a model of verbal murk.😕
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Hell is a state of mind. Here and hereafter. An imploding black whole G,nite all
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6.36 The HSE have a list of all with notifiable illnesses in this Republic. Not as confidential as it should be, don’t you know.
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9.19 – you have no awareness of the subtlety of the language. Do some research and don’t be lazy and you’ll see what’s meant – jeez – THICK clergy !
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10:00 pm
You don’t get a pass for your inability to write clearly. I recommend for you ‘Plain English’, an Open University publication.
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@ 1:53am!
Where is that fly swat when I need it?
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12:02
When you find it clobber yourself with it.
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Why did Archbishop Eamon Martin invite Dr. Frank Lawrence to lunch in Ara Coeli , they dined alone although others were available ( including Eugene Sweeney). Martin then when ‘proceedings ‘ were finished.asked Frank who he would be calling on on the way back to Co. Dublin. More installmements . Few get a free meal at that misers table ( EM). WM
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There’s a blast from the past. Dr Frank Lawrence is the brilliant college chapel organist in the 80s, who was refused diaconate, to everyone’s surprise. It was a humiliating experience for him, as he had made it all the way to III Div and getting a college position was usually a sign of the Administrative Council’s favour. He was an all round nice guy. I think he then tried his vocation in Glenstal, the same time as Paul Nash. I think Frank’s an academic in UCD now.
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A perfidious place.
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Oops 😬
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Eamon in Armqgh knows all your secrets Pat and your friends thanks to Bill.
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All my “secrets” are on Google 😀
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Pat, absolute bullshit in that comment. They most definitely are on the back foot and that’s a euphemism. Choir Tour to Solemes …photograph s boys/ girls. Bishop Buckley , you know Better. Bill Mulvihill ( high price for that comment tomorrow morning. )
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I am a friend of Bill’s. I trust him 100%
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The annual international tours by the Maynooth choir stopped very suddenly. I often wondered why.
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6.58: Really?????
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Pat, I do not mean to be disrespectful, but Bill Mulvihill, to me, appears mentally ill, possibly schizophrenic. Are you allowing his multi-commenting as a therapy? If you are, it isn’t working. His comments remain disjointed, chaotic, and, at times, incoherent.
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I think it ok to let WM post all he wants under whatever name he chooses. The more he posts the clearer it becomes that the man is wounded and hitting out, albeit cryptically.
He does himself no favours and only succeeds in making himself look silly and vindictive.
I’m guessing most readers are coming to that conclusion.
Pat might have a duty of care to WM and not allow him to make a fool of himself but it’s Pat’s blog so he can do as he pleases.
A personal message to Wiliam. Take a break from the blog and look after yourself. Take care.
A friend
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If there’s ever an open book, it’s Pat Buckley. Like Bill Mulvihill, what you see is what you get, and that was one of Bill’s great strengths in Maynooth.
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6.39 Eamon Martin lives in dread. WM
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8.36 Cyberpunk you are both capricious and perfidious…..Game of Thrones a few days ago and a friend now. You may be a bit confused and concussed yourself. I have enough thank you, you would certainly not be welcome in my circle. Find your own friends anywhere but here. Please don’t address me again, you have made yourself perfectly unclear.
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@6.44 pm
Don’t be so offensive on the one hand and ridiculous on the other.
What a silly comment.
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I have to object to the way +Phonsie has been protrayed in today rant.
If the ‘source’ really is from the ranks of the clergy of W&L is reflects more negatively on them than it does on their ordinary. It is quite clear that the clergy of W&L resent having a bishop who behaves as a bishop.
The opinion of a invalidely ordained protestant lady priestess is not worth considering: a priest who donned drag on national television is clearly not a suitable person for public ministry. It goes to show that the decline of the catholic church in Ireland was hastened by admitting the lower classes to holy orders: they dont know how to behave appropriately, and in some cases not even with children.
I have known Phonsie for many years: he is an intelligent, thoughtful and kind man, who acts for the good of the church, all the baptised faithful.
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Is that you Richard Purcell?
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7.09 Thank you Pat. I withdraw what I texted you. I do not understand why you post anything you know to be entirely true. Bill Mulvihill
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I bet you withdrew WM. You withhdrew after 12Noon
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6.44 Give me your name and I shall have you in court. William Mulvihill
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Shalom, my friends,
shalom, my friends,
shalom, shalom.
Shalom, my friends,
shalom, my friends,
shalom, shalom.
Share peace, dear friends,
share peace, dear friends,
God’s peace, God’s peace.
Share peace, dear friends,
share peace, dear friends,
God’s peace, God’s peace.
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6.44 I shall report you to a forum you most likely are unaware of….I can have you traced.
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William has contacts within the Israeli secret service. He can trace anyone. He’s probably watching you now through your webcam. He’s a very clever man and a wordsmith too, don’t you know.
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It costs $40 on the dark web to reveal a person’s full browsing history, even when it’s deleted. I only know this because there’s a viral tweet about a dissatisfied customer of Gap who revealed much about a shop assistant who had been rude to him/her.
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If that were true the red top newspapers would fill their pages with salacious stories as they did with phone hacking,
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7.55
It is precisely because of the phone hacking scandal (which led to the closure of the News of the World) that newspapers don’t publish salacious details. The UK has some of the strongest anti-libel laws, enforced strongly by Judge Eadie and others. However, those who work in newspapers know how newspapers get round it by oblique references and by putting apparently unrelated stories adjacent to each other on the page.
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10:04, re: Purcell and an underground sex network. I suspect Benedict Anderson may be in the dog house because the aftermath of his complaints about Silverstream and its staged visitation became connected with the revelations about Purcell’s escapades. It’s hard to account for the ongoing Silverstream situation otherwise.
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Purcell did his ordination retreat in Knock. On that retreat he was accompanied by Neil Dargan. They for the duration of that retreat were shagging the brains out of one another. Purcell never ever intended to be celibate. He was well taught and he taught well in anal sports. They changed Roman Church regulations to make him an abbot. That tells you everything. Putrid Church.
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7:32 This could very well be the case. As well as sex there’s the money aspect in essentially unseating the great fundraiser and visionary, who joined in himself two of the church’s favourite grifts.
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“I do not understand why you post anything you know to be entirely true. Bill Mulvihill”
So are you saying Pat should only post lies?
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7.50 Work it out Gombeen. Stick to simplex.
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Work out what, dipshit?
Read and correct your own comments before you post.
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Yes, I did wonder at that quote myself. Too quick to post that there are so many errors. Too many corrections in previous posts.
Pax
Garngad Lad
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Ivan Tonge is very close to Joe Duffy ( RTE). Explains a lot of editing, doesn’t it ?
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Do many priest get beaten up by their “exotic” boyfriends these days ?
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…..plural of course…..error.
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Paul Brogan. Dwayne Gavin. A Brazilian. Fergal Rooney. Frank Lawrence. Eamonn Martin. Sean Lavery. Ben Hughes. An Indian. John Collins ( Galway/ Los Angeles). Lets see.
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Is that why Frank Lawrence was refused diaconate?
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I was refused diaconate because I resigned as College Organist due to the way the organ scholar (a new appointment at the time) was being treated. This was in the interregnum between the departure of Sean Lavery and the appointment of John O’Keeffe. I was refused diaconate because one could not resign a college appointment in those days and one could not be seen to get away with it. Ledwith, who had treated me very well to that point,was furious. Tom Clancy shafted me by telling me there would not be consequences to resigning and then blamed the refusal of diaconate on Matt O’ Donnell.
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That’s awful, Frank. Imagine doing that over something so trivial as a college appointment (though college organist was one of the biggies). It shows what a petty hothouse it was in those days. Clancy up to his usual tricks and Ledwith was not accustomed to being defied.
As for Matt O’Donnell, despite his austere image, Matto was often the only defender of students hauled up before the Administrative Council. Sems had to appear before it in collar and soutane in the board room in Stoyte House and it was a terrifying experience, according to a Tuam student who told me all about it. Clancy was more or less reaching across the table having a spittle-flecked nutty, and Matto came to the rescue.
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Umit Kutluk has a lot of knowledge about clergy( set up in Ireland by O’Hanlon Herbs…first partner). The gift of pillow talk. High fashion as was on Merrion Square. Big stakes in that story. You got your ear to the ground Eamonn Martin and Eugene Sweeney ?
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How did Eamon Martin facilitate the return of Frazer the emigrant from London ?
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What was the relationship between Paul Rushe who John Fleming fired out of the Irish College with Antoine Camelleri now nuncio in Africa after he was fired out of The Secretariat of State? He dirtied his copy book. Camellei arranged the audience his brother in law, Fr Paddy Rushe PP Monasterboice. had with the Holy Father in recent years. You could not make this stuff up. Fleming asked me to go to `Paul Rushes room after he completely trashed the place on hearing he was getting kicked out. Never a letter like it written….the one to the Maltese Prelate.
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8.56 Its disjointed for my own good reasons. Silly You.
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What did Liam Begin tell Sean Brady about Padraig Murphy ( all priests) ? More pertinently, Why?
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Time Dublin got a turn again.
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Nothing happening
Clergy – happy or scared
Laity – no balls or not interested
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If Ryan goes to St Marys in Belfast, Fr Paul Fleming will show him the ropes. They can swap life stories, would that be beneficial for everybody ?
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If ‘Fr’ Ryan McAleer ends up in St Mary’s Belfast, its status as a college of Queen’s University Belfast should be withdrawn.
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9.41 I disagree , Queens College Belfast is simply missing an adjective in its title. It should have been added some time ago. Cathal Daly did “teach” scholastic philosophy in it and he could be vicious. Imagine Cathal Daly engaging me in philosophical banter, I pointed out that what we were talking about had been written up by Habermas. The man asked ” Who is Habermas, I’ve never heard of him.” He was reputed to be a scholar !
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Cahal can’t have been expected to know every philosopher. Your hero Habermas was a member of the Hitler Youth. A discredited former frequent commenter here used to make much of Josef Ratzinger’s forced membership of the HY.
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11:24 Forced lol. You mean like the children forced to go through Romanist ‘sacraments’!
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3:47 🥃 alert
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How many properties is Father Christy McHugh of Elphin renting out at the moment ? Damien Thorne rented one from him years ago and did the good deed of healing me keep up with the clergy property tycoons. Another untold escapade countrywide. Dorman was at it for years in Armagh, swindled Elis Delaney, a friend of my families.
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11.24 He is no hero of mine, stop your propaganda. Use that skill on Sunday. Read what I blogged you troglodyte.
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I thought you were a Frankfurt School advocate, Bill. You used to be.
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I’m not au fait with the Geoghan-Cullinan bromance, so could the blog author explain what he means by saying that Fr Richard was and is ‘different’? How?
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I don’t know how Eugene Sweeney sleeps at night. William Mulvihill
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Bill, you can’t serious believe that Fr Ryan McAleer will end up in St Mary’s in Belfast? The thought is proposterous.
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9.49 Kieron/ Ciaran Murphy of Clogher ( friend of Willie Doherty in Maynooth) Diocese was appointed to St. Patricks Drumcondra. Armagh and Ardagh will remember the trauma. So will Brian Donnelly X Derry priest. A presently serving Armagh PP reported the details to Cathal Daly back then; ” Go home, it never happened.” It did and quite a few know it did. So the answer to what you ask, he could easily end up in St Mary’s Belfast. Probably some sort of a deal for his silence on his fellow clerics, who knows what is going on in Armagh just now? Donaghy and Sweeney definitely do, and Curry has historically what is now current for EM’s desk. Eddie Ward was and is a good man, a classmate of Hugh Quinn. Both ordained and both have left. Hugh now has a life dealing with the sort of individual being cited on this blog recently ( assault/gropping/ the like and more grevious in law )…PSNI. ( all error linguistically is deliberate, not bound by communicative conventions….for a reason) Modeh Ani WM
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Give us all the deets about Ciaran Murphy.
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I thought that C or K Murphy left after ordination and while he was a postgrad on the Dunboyne Establishment because he got jiggy with a female lay student (an entirely unexpected turn of events, if you know what I mean).
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What have you got on E Sweeney a once close friend of you?
He’s a decent good man.
You seem to have held much sensitive information and unashamedly held it from the authorities, your as guilty as those in the system that hold such information!
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11.53 That is a lot of presumption on your imprudent part. I think those in the system should feel shame, not guilt. Should I head to confession ? Lol
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11.53 I think when you email a friend and the reply comes from his archbishop, the 35 years of friendship is over. 1982-2018, I email Eugene and I get a reply from Eamon Martin. Eamon Martin gave the order that he wanted all over it and Sweeney complied. A slave to the Slut of Satan in the hope of promotion. Then Eugene’s eye was wiped with the gift to Armagh of another Cavan man….his classmate. Friends….not in priesthood if one leaves.
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PNONSIEITIS – surely you can get a cream for that???
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…..if not big pharma will have a gel out in a jiffy.
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Best wishes to Kevin Connolly om his intimate journey with Stephen Gorman in Raphoe.
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We hope that Fr Richard Geoghegan will read this blog today and hope that he can at least take some comfort from the support shown to him here and hoping that his situation will be resolved sooner rather than later.
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Whatever Fr Geoghan does, he shouldn’t repeat the mistake of asking the ACP to represent him.
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I found out last night that the ACP representative who accompanied Richard G to meet Phonsie was Fr. Tim Hazelwood. I rest my case.
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Why?
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You need a robust character as your shop steward, not a milksop.
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Pat would have been the right person to accompany Richard at the fateful meeting. As a matter of natural justice Phonsie couldn’t have refused, and Pat would have politely but firmly insisted on Richard’s rights being upheld and would have withstood the coercion on Richard to apply for liacisation.
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Can you imagine the Fonz’s face if Pat had actually accompanied him? 🤯
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Pat please write an extensive Blog on Kevin Connolly 🙏
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Kevin Connolly the Maynooth secret keeper 😱
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“Myself and Eugene had a good laugh about that.” A quote from Eamon Martin ….he was speaking to me about the fact that they had seen him driving down the road in Fieldstown, they phoned him up from some house there and told the person at the end of the phone in Ara Coeli ” we know you were down with him.” Indeed thats what it was to them; a good laugh. Outrageous. William Mulvihill
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Also, Helen Mc Entee is strengthening the law on “consent” in rape cases. Good laws are needed.
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Hi William what is your opinion of Stephen Wilson 🤔
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8.40 I know nothing of Stephen Wilson except what I have read on this blog. However, in recent days I have been told that there is a lot more to the scenario than what appears here. No healthy young man was/is/would be ordained this year or any year coming. Sad but true. He clearly has more to take than to give: that is why these guys go for their “chosen lifestyle”….takers not givers being ordained. Stephen Wilson is clearly a taker.
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Thank you William for your honesty and clarity regarding Stephen Wilson as a taker, respectfully the correct modern term is Stephen is a Bottom or Bot.
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Will it go over the 300 ?
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11.56 You vulgarity has no application to what I intended to be understood. WM
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It’s 450 to 500.
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10.11am: Knowing nothing has never stopped you from making allegations or speculating about others. Once you, Bi’ll, get sufficient info on this blog, you readily speed away with narratives that are cruel, vindictive and destructive. You have no regard for TRUTH. Zilch.
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12.48 Tell us three instances where he has been untruthful ?
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Cabinet in Dublin today putting law in place to put matters on “pro-life” supporters. I hope they find another displacement for their energies now.
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9.36: The pro life movement will continue to fight against the barbarism of abortion, like their counterparts in the USA. We were guaranteed that abortion would be safe, legal and rare….23,000 babies or more – human beings – murdered before birth..so far in our country. A great human tragedy. A moral shame. A distortion of human and moral values. in an apopalyptic way.
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10.01 Did you ever use Imperial Leather soap ?
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If altar boys could get pregnant abortion would be a sacrament.
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Also the millions that have been denied life by the use of contraceptives and the sexual abused people who lost their lives through suicide and the cover up by the church authorities that allowed this sickening abuse to occur.
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1:13
But we have a robust safeguarding agency in place.
Are safeguarding positions advertised?
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The saddest thing is the Christians who have switched from the Biblical position to Romanist error. Apostasy is strong as the end comes and the Scarlet Woman is the major leader in it.
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Guess who was looking after Mc Areavey in Mauritius ? One phone call from Newry to Bishop Maurice Piat in Port Louis and the RC wwweb kicked in.
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So what?
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1.53
Does it matter what or how Hell presents? It is neither peaceful nor happy. And knowing that there is no redemption from it after death can only deepen those qualities.
Best avoided, then. Eh?
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Release the Kraken Pat, turn it loose on the Phonz!!!!!!!!!!!!
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11:29 How many strands attached to the Kraken?
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National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church in Ireland.
The National Case Management Committee exists as a function of National Board and is chaired and administered by staff from the National Office. Members include Teresa Devlin (CEO National Board) – formerly NSPCC and experienced social worker in child protection in Northern Ireland. Phil Mortell – Ex HSE senior childcare manager and designated person for Redemptorist congregation; Trainer and currently on ROI National Child Death Review Panel. Peter Kieran – Ex HSE senior childcare manager, experience from the Diocese of Waterford and Lismore panel in risk assessment and management. And our colleague Fr Michael Mullaney – Canon Lawyer. Did Phil Mortell work in the mid-western region, Limerick, Tipperary, Clare…?
https://safeguarding.ie/about-us/the-national-office-team-ncmc-independent-reviewers-and-tutors
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1973 Ordination Class. How did someone with a Pass General BA and a General BD end up teaching Canon Law in St. Patricks College Maynooth: That would be the then Bishop John McAreavey. That is quite a story. Niall Ahern was in the same category of qualification. That class….phew!
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Both ended up with doctorates, unlike you. When Teeps did, there were very few people qualified to take over, what with the new Code and everything, and because of the failure of sucession planning. John McAreavey was in the right place at the right time.
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12.04 Was he in the right place at the right time when Cathal used him as the Bulldog in Court against Pat Buckley. Deenihan has a doctorate, Coyle has a doctorate, Ahern as you say has a doctorate. Its harder to get a BA Hons …..you don’t seem aware. Doctorates in some academic institutions are more plentiful than toilet paper…not from Lidl.
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Niall told me that the only reason that he did a general BA, rather than an honours one, was that the Junior Dean at the time compelled him to do the general degree because it had three subjects, rather than the two in the hons, and that would give more scope to Niall when he was posted as a priest teacher in one of the Elphin diocesan colleges. That’s Niall’s story and he’s sticking to it. I’m surprised he never told you during your extended stay in New House. I think Frank Duhig has a general BD or no BD at all.
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12.04 Father Malachy Finegan would agree with you, the right place at the right time.
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Meant when Teeps died.
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I consulted the list of Deans at the back of the Kalendarium. Frank Duhig had a BA but no BD of any kind.
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A bientôt. La Mer……
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11.48 Niall Ahern got a Pass General BA. The classification no longer exists . Was there failure involved ? “I am irrelevant , I am irrelevant .”
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Dark times for Stephen Gorman in Raphoe. Kevin Connolly 🧟 is striking back at him.
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Were Kevin and Stevie nice little friends?
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Pat, there are Dark Secrets in the Diocese of Waterford. The crystal is clear but the sins dark
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Ok. Let’s deal with it
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Are there any non corrupt Bishops left in Ireland? Reading back through the blogs is frankly hair raising. Didn’t realise all these different things going on and all connected to the local churches.
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Larry Duffy isn’t corrupt
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Just one Bishop not corrupt on the whole island of Ireland???? Are you serious???? Bet the rest of them just love Larry Duffy.
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Every diocese has a dark underbelly same goes for every Lourdes pilgrimage – scratch the surface and the skeletons tumble out of the closet and the bodies buried cry out for justice.
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Every diocese on the island of Ireland needs to be independently investigated.
Safeguarding MUST be completely independent of the RCC.
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About time somebody said that.
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Re honours/pass BA degrees there was a curious system of a 2 year BA hons exam at the end of Summer 3rd year. It meant giving up a summer and studying 2 years work together .. very primitive..later changed. This deterred ba honours students
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In Niall Ahern’s time in Maynooth, every seminarian’s first three years in Maynooth were given over to study for a BA or BSc degree awarded by the National University of Ireland, or, more rarely, an LPh awarded by the Pontifical University (Ledwith had an LPh). There was no sem course then. In first year of the BA four subjects were studied (philosophy had to be one of them if you were a seminarian).
In second Arts, depending on your first Arts results, you continued in either the General or Hons stream. General had three subjects. Hons had two. In Hons you got a First, or a 2.1 or a 2.2, or a Pass or fail.
In the BA General you either passed or failed. Bill is saying that Niall passed his BA General exams and was awarded a pass degree.
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2.58 He most definitely did not.
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2.44pm, but it meant you had no exams at the end of second year. The 3rd Arts hons sems used to come back and live in Top Pats in the summer before sitting their BA finals in August. It was great.
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So, you restricted me again, Pat: you refused to publish my reply today to 10.36 pm, under the usertag 4.00.
There was nothing abusive in my reply, which was in defence of Bishop Cullinan. This can be the ONLY reason for your refusal to publish it.
Furthermore, your refusal gives the lie to your categorical claim, yesterday, at 10.18 am: ‘I don’t ‘restrict ANYONE’.
If it is really your intention to allow those criticised or excoriated on your blog to make an unedited response in their defence, then you have undermined this intention by refusing to publish such responses. It shouldn’t matter whether these are made directly, or by proxy: a defence is a defence.
I believe that you described us, the Irish hierarchy (among other bishops), as ‘wolves in shepherd’s clothing’. Some of us probably are. But are you really any different? To show yourself in a more favourable moral light in comparison with Roman Catholic bishops, you said that you ‘hate’ censorship, and yet, you typically censor with abandon (and not always because comments are abusive, but simply because you don’t like them). And you offer an assurance that those criticised or excoriated on your blog will be allowed an unedited reply, and yet, they aren’t, are they?
Again Pat, why would any reasonable person trust such an assurance when you behave so inconsistently, and with such lack of moral integrity?
Words without action are just spoiled intentions.
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I agree with you. I have had a number of comments providing balance to arguments made on blog posts and they have not been published. Censorship at its best. Vladimir Buckley only likes the narrative to be in his favour.
With regards to Bishop Cullinan – he’s obviously disliked because he is going against the grain, arguing against the status quo of the world today, making the uncomfortable statements that priests and bishops dont have the balls to make. I wish him well.
I sure wish I had him as my diocesan Bishop.
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3.17. Shut up moaning about Killaloe, do something about it down there & don’t be so two faced, Father.
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3:17 is another comment in church speak, with the characteristic apparent reasonableness. However ‘balance’ in church speak translates as ‘youre wrong’ in every other language.
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3.33pm – Two corrections for you.
1. I am not a Priest.
2. Where in my comment am I complaining about Killaloe?
2 assumptions made and now you look stupid. Have a nice day.
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2:55 & 3:17 – I would like to say,firstly, I am not a priest, bishop or any religious person, I am an ordinary citizen and I too,have in the past number of days put in very genuine comments on this blog asking for some answers and none of them got through to pat’s blog. Not to worry, there are “more ways than one to skin a cat”.
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3:17 Please refrain from coarse language. Your obviously confusing Bishop Buckley with Bishop Valdimir Cullinan. Be careful what you wish for since wishes can come true.
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the clerical blogger @ 2.55 obviously doesn’t handle being ignored very well, perhaps some useful insight might be learned by same on how those being abused by the RCC feel. It’s not nice, to put it mildly. Go start your own blog, Pope has plenty money to fund it for you, you have a lot to learn even after decades of proven abuse on the importance of respecting the boundaries of us ordinary folk.
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Brilliant comment at 3:29.
I also feel like I have read the hectoring, patronizing, accusing comment Pat didn’t publish, here many times before.
The one thing the clergy can’t stand is not being the final arbiter and Centre of attention, which gives a striking insight into the childhoods of men drawn to priesthood.
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Actually that blogger makes a very valid point.
Bill Mulvihill is given free reign to say what he wants because, as Pat tells us, Bill is his friend and he believes in him 100%.
Yet, posts that challenge such contributors or challenge the view that Fonsie in a one dimensional, pantomime villain are NOT published.
I have had posts deleted in the past and on this topic today – not one of the contributions was offensive but they challenged the Village Idiot’s posts
All of which would undermine Pat’s position that he permits a right of reply and calls into questions his integrity.
(As it happens I believe that Fonsie is a pantomime villain but unfortunately he has the capacity to wreak real havoc in peoples lives. Pure Evil!)
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3.29
Why would anyone ‘handle … very well’ the act of being ignored when this denies him the very assurance Pat Buckley, categorically, offered? Would you?
Are you so small-minded that you fail to understand such a plain moral principle?
Pat Buckley, by his own standard, has not behaved honourably here.
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Dear Bishop Buckley, through the good offices of your Blog for which we give God thanks, may we promulgate the following: Oliver Plunkett Union, Alumni of the Pontifical Irish College Rome. AGM Tuesday 20th September 2022 in The Hudson Bay Hotel, Athlone. The Rector,Fr Paul Finnerty will address us on the current situation of the College and how best we can continue to promote the interests of the College. Thank you Bishop Buckley. You are always welcome to join us. ( WM)
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4.01 Dear Blogger, Bishop Buckley is both prudent and wise but many of my contributions do not make your screen, unfortunately . Pat has more regard for your kind that I have ever had or ever will. Don’t fell to aggrieved and if you do, put in the effort, start your own fucking blog. WM
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4.25pm Well said Bill. Hitlers from the RCC can get funding from Fraudulent Frankie over in the Vatican & start their own fucking blog, maybe they can get advertising sponsorship from the Priesty Sauna Boiler Room in Dublin & similar joints, Kirby had a safe full of cash, he could donate, Fr Ger Fitzgerald had the €17k resting in his account, Bishop Monahan & Fr Tom Ryan had the Ennis bingo hall money & Bishop Phonsies priest had them€70k & so on and so on and so on.
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WILLIAM.
It’s don’t FEEL TOO aggrieved. I don’t feel aggrieved at all. Slightly frustrated at valid challenges being ignored – it appears I’m not the only one.
I’ve no desire to start my own f@%#ing blog. I merely want to be able to contribute to this one. Perhaps you should take your own advice and start your own blog. I’d advise you brush up on your spelling, grammar etc.
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Ask him why the Irish College still has Irish priests on staff as Rector etc when it has no Irish sems. Is it just a B&B for Irish bishops visiting Rome and a hall of residence for international students?
It would be better to take the 20 or so remaining sems out of the disgraced pink palace of Maynooth and reopen the Irish College as an Irish seminary, perhaps shared with the Scots College, which is looking for a smaller, more central location.
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No new blog today?
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No. We are sticking with Phonsie.
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Love the Phonsie blogs🍿🍿🍿🍿
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Pat you usually commence a new blog on the same matter by saying “Day 2 of ……Waterford & Lismore ……..”
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6:22, does everything need to be spelt out for you? It is as obvious as the nose on your face that this blog story is on a rollover.
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8:50
Seamus, Billy @6:22 thinks a rollover is a Monday morning lie in bed. Explain yourself…lol
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Howling at the Bishop Phonsie irate brigade on here for past 2 days. Nasty catlicks, so thoroughly nasty. Bet they all smiles dishing out holy communion and sewing vestments. Ugh! 😩🤣🤣🤣🤣
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@ 4:00pm
Howling at you always Howling, you sound quite nasty yourself. I think you’re wrong about sewing vestments they don’t have any, but agree with you about dishing out Holy Communion. Ugh!🙄😏😏😏
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4.00 pm
Nothing nasty in wanting to be treated fairly, to have one’s comments published, just like the others. No more; no less. Pat would seek no less for himself. So would you.
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Pelosi has had manners put on her as the Chinese did to Bergoglio and his Vatican machine. I do not have any regard for Chinese Government ways but they are replicative of both Pelosi and Bergoglio. God be with all who seek the just, God be with the Ukranian people ( not its Government) and God bless the ancient civilisation of the amalgam of the Russian Peoples. William Mulvihill
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http://irishsalem.com/irish-controversies/child-care-today/learningcurve-childabuse-2010.php
This is a link to an interesting article by Phil Mortell. The punch line: “Is it possible that the Murphy Report is unfair to the Dublin Archdiocesan Auxiliary Bishops in assuming that they possessed a level of understanding not shared by their contemporaries in the professional system?” As a professional in the professional system I had an awareness and understanding of child sexual abuse in the mid-1980s in Ireland.
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4.30: Many of your colleagues in the same profession “were’nt” aware as they advised Bishops that with some paedophile incidents or abuses, the possibility of recurrence (recidivism) was miniscule. Wonder why? I was certainly aware since the early 70’s of “abusers”, having been abused by a “nice” neighbour. My parents in the 60’s always warned us against ever being in the company of certain men in our villages but one guy went unnoticed (my abuser). I grew up with a suspicion about men loitering alone and my antennae re: abusers is very sharp and proved correct in a couple of cases where civil justice was done!! The so called professionals failed in many cases. Their files should be examined. You would of course, defend your profession, as the bishops defended the institution…
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I’m not surprised you had a heightened awareness of ‘abusers’ having been abused. You were not alone. I hope your abuse experience was not overly detrimental in life. Of course bishops were entitled to defend the institution. I’m questioning the notion of the ongoing gradual learning curve. This gradual learning curve didn’t seem to apply to cover liabilities likely to arise from clerical child sex abuse. It seems most of Ireland’s catholic dioceses had insurance in place as far back as 1987. Apparently between 1987 and 1990 most dioceses obtained separate insurance policies from Church & General against the eventuality of legal liability accruing to a diocese from acts of child sexual abuse by priests. Can we therefore deduce someone knew enough as far back as 1987 or probably earlier to warn serious problems were looming for the institution? What springs to mind is tune pipers and pay. This equally applies to statutory as well as church employees.
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5:19 And where were the clergy protests when the shit hit the fan? 😆
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4:30 As clerics who hear confessions they had no excuse not to know that people tend to repeat their sins. Their professional knowledge as well as yours should have led them to the right conclusion.
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Pat, I am a member of Chess.com for over three years now. I play internationally and am doing ok. My few games with Fr Paul Murphy, I was honoured to loose( in real time in Monasterboice). I was both rusty and respectful of his intelligence. But Pat, the last 48 hours beats any game of chess….as I say I do ok statistically on the winnings. Back foot bully boys at work yesterday…nothing like a gauntlet from That Putrid Organisation. Hello Dames, Knights and pawns, this is a long game. BUT THIS IS A PUBLIC RECORD FORUM. William Mulvihill
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Pat, with deepest respect, you are doing William Mulvihill no favours by allowing him to post as freely as you do. He daily makes a fool of himself. How can this be helping him?
Be honest. You and I may not be psychiatrists or psychologists, but we both have reasonable grounds for at least suspecting, from William’s posts alone, that he has some sort of mental-health issue.
And be charitable. Urge him, as kindly and gently as possible, to seek professional help.
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I am Bill’s friend and want the very best for him.
You are right – you and I and ot psychiatrists or psychologists and we should attempt to diagnose anyone.
Maybe,I’ve myself, Bill is an eccentric.
And maybe we need eccentrics in this world of black and white?
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5.40
I did not attempt to diagnose William Mulvihill; I said that I had reasonable grounds, from the nature of his comments, to ‘suspect’ that he might have a mental-health issue.
I am not a cardiologist either, but if I see someone who is making a fist on his chest while his face contorts in agony, then I am not unqualified to suspect that he may be suffering a heart attack.
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5.40 I have never chosen you Pat as a friend ? Bill Mulvihill
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Was I presumptuous then in saying we are friends?
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They will shut you in to shut you up or shut you down to shut you out then call
you sad bad or mad. Its ever so kind ever so gentle ever so charitable for your own good.
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Bill, was Gabriel Kelly, canon lawyer, PP of Killesher and former diocesan secretary of Kilmore a contemporary of yours in Maynooth or Rome? He took the well-trodden path of going on sabbatical in 2018 before going MIA and has now turned up as a lay hospital chaplain in Cork.
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5.20 He was/is an exceptionally good man. i presume he has ‘tired’ of it all. An exceptionally good man, Bill Mulvihill
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5.50 Do you think i should phone Loughlinstown Hospital immediately ? Will you cover the ambulance cost, you seem so compassionate and concerned ? WM
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Yes, I am concerned, for your mental well-being.
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5.50 Is President Michael D. Higgins visiting Dysart as planned ? WM
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8.10 Please displace your concern for somebody sleeping rough on the streets of your town or city: then I can take you seriously.
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5.50: Very intelligent comment and one I hope Pat takes seriously. Someone needs urgently to confront Bill Mulvihill as he is behaving very erratically, irrationally and foolishly. It seems he is relishing his fame too much on his blog, now that he’s the co-author with Pat. If we look back over the last 3/4 days, with at least 100 + comments, there’s something very revealing about the direction, nature and expression of his verbiage. I believe It is both morally and ethically repulsive for any erson who shows signs of “breakdown” to be encouraged and facilitated to do so on a public forum. It’s an abuse of freedom and while it may give fun to some, it is a most unattractive feature of this blog all too often. As you rightly say, anon at 5.50, common sense and a little intelligence are often the best at discerning traits in others. Bill seems not to care about himself but he is useful for now in filling this blog with every second comment…Very questionable rationale for this enablement by Pat.
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6.51 Martin, you have two dimensions; height and front. William Mulvihill
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7.37 Yes.
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Bishop Patrick Buckley is a very good man. The weight and influence of the Roman Catholic Church has been bearing down on him for years. Few would know the resilience and energy that requires. Paddy Walsh, despite anything he did to the contrary ( at Roman Instruction) had a soft spot for Pat, Walsh knew he had bested Daly; not simple or easy. Only kindness matters in the end, few here attribute it to me but I know better than them, Pat Buckley is kind and will not on the other side be found wanting. God bless Pat, Bill Mulvihill ( We live in a lovely country…..when the temperature is right….not often!)
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Some research has yielded results ( no effort on my part), so i ask the question: Where now are Christy Mitchell ( Tuam) and Niall Hennessy ( Elphin) ? Best I get some effort in the answer……
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5.40 shifty & Dodgy all these missing priests & then they turn up out of the blue when the dust settles and one finds then in hospitals and schools or set up abroad & Bishops blatantly sticking 2 fingers up to the public by failing to account for these deviants in a transparent manner.
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Last sighting of Niall Hennessy was him being a bollox at the Cop26 talking shop in Glasgow.
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6.21 He was a bollox. A conceited Shit in the image of Bergin. WM
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Bill
They may have gone as they are not listed in the Irish Catholic Directory 2022.
There is a Francis Mitchell c/o diocesan offices Tuam
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6.27 They were both seminarians, never ordained. They were ” friends” of Neil Dargan. I was very green an naive back then. Putrid.
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There are some necessary truths that need to be expressed about Pat’s blog. It’s a very useful and necessary forum. Recently it’s been abused by Bill Mulvihill, Pat’s friend whom he trusts 100%. Amazing. Bill and Pat sing from the same hymn sheet and it’s an ugly sheet in their readings. It is incredulous that Mulvihill has total, unquestioned and complete freedom to say what he likes but Pat deletes, bins and ignores the legitimate comments of many. Bill is even now advising Pat. He is a vicious, nasty man who, since leaving priesthood, has flung around all kinds of names, sinister stories, allegations and speculations about individuals whom he, like Pat, have chosen as targets to be felled. There are moral and ethical issues and questions to be asked about this symbiotic liaison between Pat and Bill. I fail to understand why Bill is allowed to be so vulgar, irrational, deranged and scurrilous in his comments. His frequent use of the “f**k” and “f*****g” and “b******s” words is utterly distasteful and unacceptable. I think Pat needs to take proper control of his blog and not give preference to friends with benefits. Can we not have a break from Bull Bill….?
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5.41 As distinct from your Argumentum Ad Hominem , Point out what I have stated that is not true ?……and put your name to it !!!!
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5.41 Put words on what you have found sinister or speculative please ?
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5.41
I do not think you can just pick on Bill for foul vocabulary as others do as well and likely run to confession but continue to use the foul words.
Bill is not excommunicated and will likely expect a catholic burial by an Archbishop or Bishop for his send off.
It is Pat’s blog and I suppose if you do not like it then you should not read it.
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6.36 Ye are pitiful if rich language offends you: pitiful.
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6.36 I have set out legally…and with much trouble…..no Christian rites for me of any kind. The executors are non christian. Thank you for the kind sentiments however. No dross in my brain and that is before deterioration!!! Thank you, you are clearly very kind ( all that matters) Bill
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Thank God for that. the very thought of Bileen being brought back to Monstarboice, is quite frightening
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5.41 What island do you live on ‘precious ears?’ Lol Lol Lol were you at a convent school ? And they are a rough uncouth lot!!!
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9.23 Nobody who escapes Hell goes back to it. Monasterboice was known in Ara Coeli long before my time there as “Monsterbitches.” No end of them there…
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Pat this comment has shocked me to the core.
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Oh! my Bileen your detractors are out in force today you must be touching a few nerves. While I agree your comments are quite cryptic, reading between the lines, I’m sure being amongst it, you know where the bodies are buried and they don;t like it. Good luck to ya!😀.
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7.02 My friend , I wish I knew who your are….the missing L is always touching ( and now it is redundant for others will use it), thank you for your kindness and words of solace, rare in this place, even from the egregious Moderator! Courage and the very best !!! Bill ( Mulvihill)
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@6:42 Don’t listen to your detractors Billeen….keep on being you. The more they try to silence you on the blog, the more you need to speak your truth. They are scared shitless.
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5.41 You call him Bull Bill, that is quite abusive. Humans are deserving of respect form one who wants language sanitised ?
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It will take some time, but is it not a derogation of responsibility of the national media to cover some of the matters addressed here ? Why ? The Gardai, the media and very particular journalists , why the non-intersest in matters of public interest aired here ? Strange ?
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Brendan O Connor was a disgrace on RTE news just now. Denial. What planet?
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6 08: What did he say…that has enraged your sensitivities, Bill? Thought you had a thick neck..
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8.48 Next time I meet my erstwhile accountant at a railway station, I expect him to at least acknowledge me, he is a good and holy man, but under instruction has blanked me. If it happens again, I shall put up here everything Eugene Sweeney told me, personal to him and professional to the Diocese. I expect to be at Drogheda and Connolly station in the next seven days . Consider this notice. Cyril Bellew has never returned my items or my cash. Eamon Martin is next. WM Eugene Sweeney cried in Brady s presence….just to indicate my seriousness.
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What have I posted that is not true ? Point it out please ? Pat says eccentric , I do not have his ticks.
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I assure you, I have perfect mental health, physically I have aged with two debilitations. You concerned ? I did 11 kms yesterday in 15 mins on a bicycle …not bad at 57 ?
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I & many others left the Roman Catholic Church because of what they’ve done & continue to do & if these bastardo clergy and their friends with benefits are allowed to take over this blog, I’ll leave I’ll start a lot more than a fucking blog & Bill Mulvihill & some others are welcome to join in & guess what clergy will be barred just like they’ve barred people who speak the truth as a matter of course, so there. Gotta run now, I’ve just spotted a cat lick 👅
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DO IT!
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9:12 So what happened to V2 The Church is the People Of God?
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5.40: Pat, you say “I am Bill’s friend and I want the best for him”. That statement needs to be backed up by immediately having an honest conversation with Bill. His commentary is now in the realm of serious worry and concern. I think it unwise that he be allowed so much space on your blog to unload himself of much despair, angst, past hurts and present inner turmoil. All of these realities are evident and indicate that a person is not mentally or emotionally in a good place. While it may be good for Bill Mulvihill to use your blog as some form of psychological catharsis, it would be better if this person or anyone in a similar experience, sat face to face with a professional. That’s my experience as a teacher in high grade teaching. We must stop being enablers by accepting everything and anything without questioning the validity of the why of what’s being said and the manner of its expression. Surely a truly good friend will at some stage say: “what’s really going on?”!!
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7.03 So why can you not name yourself ? WM
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7.38: Doesn’t matter who I am Bill. I care. Just listen. Seek good advice.
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” whats really going on”
Big wigs in the RCC are getting into a tizzy fit losing their nuts. Thats whats going on.
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8.05 Good advice for you; F… Y..
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8.43pm. I should have added that the blog lifts the lid on goings on in seminaries, exposing the stuff that somehow never makes it into vocations vids or the pious updates you get in the Catholic press or when money is being raised for seminaries and seminarians. The stuff that goes on there has been hidden from the laity until Pat’s blog started.
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7.53 that’s right, the clerics and their bendy knee lot are getting into a right hissy fit because all they want to do is keep getting away with all the crap they do to vulnerable people. Totally and utterly two faced evil gits they are. All of a sudden they are all ultra fake concern about William Mulvihill because they want to shut him up & get him off blog before he names them. Bitches & Bastardos one and all.
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8.43om. You are right. Every priest has a store of stories about colleagues and they are shared when clergy meet and gossip, but they are never told in front of lay people. Bill is breaking that “not in front of the servants” rule. Hence the fury and calls for Pat to censor him.
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Why did Eugene Sweeney get 3 years in California on the back of what was supposed to be one ? Why did he get those years ? Why did he not take up Drogheda during that time when it was offered to him ( Canon Patsy Mc Donald ( lets hope that never sees the light of day) took it for a year)? Why on the Armagh side of Newry at a Hotel there did he dump such shit in my ears and brain ( and never mentioned it again), its quite unconscionable . Bill Mulvihill
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Clerical changes in Cashel & Emly. Very limited, showing how little is the room for manoeuvre.
Very Rev Cannon Conor Ryan PP, VF, Hospital & Herbertstown, to be AP Hospital & Herbertstown.
Rev Father Sean Fennelly, Chaplain, Saint John the Baptist Community School, Hospital, to be PP Hospital & Herbertstown.
Rev Father Thomas Dunne CC, Boherlahan & Dualla, to be PP Murroe & Boher.
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So Sean Fennelly is leaving the school after all these years!!!
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Both Sean and Tom were ordained in Thurles when Cashel had lots of seminarians……..they had at least 25 in their own seminary and more in Maynooth and Rome. Not sure if they have anymore now, and 80% of their priests ordained in the last 30 years have left…..Dermot Clifford wrecked that diocese.
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Sean is hanging up his gown and mortar board at last. I hope he’s not institutionalised, as usually happens to desk and school priests.
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8.15 None of your dam business. You anonymous coward….naming others from your cowardice . Ask Peter Gannon ( Tuam PP) what I said when Leo left…..too good for the Slut of Satan.
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8.26
Your sudden mood turns are concerning, Bill. I am the poster at both 8.57 and 8.15.
I knew of Leo. I was at Maynooth at the same time, and eventually left myself.
There was nothing sinister in my questions. I was just wondering about him; that’s all.
I hope Leo is well. I haven’t seen him for nearly forty years.
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9.39 But you still carry him…in fantasy I presume ? Who could blame you ?
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Bill Mulvihill should begin his own blog. It woukd be in a league of its own and could be aptly titled:: CRAPOLIGIA PRO VITA BILLUM MAGNUS..😂😂🤣🤣…
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Pat, did you know that Bishop Phonsie’s mother was from Tullamore? Isn’t that where you came from?
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Yes
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Joe Murphy. James O’ Brien. Michael Crotty. All sent by John Magee to the Vatican ‘to serve( All Cloyne) .’ Have been influential ( in terms of harm more than favour) and now displaced. Joe was a favourite of Benedict and in my opinion a man of magnanimous integrity. Not the other two.
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Joe Murphy has his own Wiki page. His predecessor as Head of Protocol became a nuncio; presumably that’s Joe’s next move.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Murphy_(priest)
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Those who read here have small lives ( myself included). Those who are healthy would not be found dead blogging here: That is you Reader!!!!!! Get a real life !!!!!
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This is the biggest thread ever
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I think there were more on a couple of the “summer of love” posts.
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I am a more authentic priest than either Bergoglio or Eamon Martin, period. Bill Mulvihill
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Bishop + Pat – is this your blog or Mulvihill’s ? Becoming tedious 🙄🙄
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@ 8:50pm
That’s true Bileen no matter what any of them say, Thou art a priest forever according to the law of Melchizedek. You have the mark of ‘The sacred Priesthood’ which cannot be removed by anyone.
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Any joint Church/State cover ups? Out with it! Spill the beans.
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Bill, did you know Leo Rigney?
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8.57 Yes. Walking Honour. And Beauty without end.
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Was he ordained? And were you in his year?
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Apart from family and friends: the things that immediately bring me cheer: the sound of the ocean, the cooing of a child, the whisper of the wind in the trees, sunshine, sea water, olive oil, coffee, red wine, smoked salmon and, and, and. and:::: a good looking guy!! Why do I say this: because in all the men I have ever seen, Leo Rigney is the most handsome, well contoured, most beautiful man I have ever seen . He was an absolute Gentleman to everybody, too good for the Church. I presume his wife to be one of the most blessed women in the world. Bill Mulvihill
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His brother, equally as gorgeous, took his wifes name when he married a South American woman so Ledwith could not trace him. So many priests are sick…
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Hubert or Kieran? Leo was the best looking sem in my time, and of course one of the many female lay students who thought it a great achievement to bag a seminarian, targeted Leo.
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Lots of comments on the blog. Unfortunately the biggest contributor is Bill M. Can’t he get his own blog?
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9.38 You get your own.
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Billy can talk to himself on his own blog. Sure he does it here and at home too. 😂
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Well said Bill, 9.38 can get their own blog, if they had the balls to print their name, I’d apply to Pat to have them barred. My name as far as those thugs concerned is MYOB, they should try it sometime.
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Any update on Fr Richard Geoghegan please. Hope he is ok?
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Can I just say I was right. 450-500.
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10.08: What a stupid comment, you coward…And so inane.
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IYO, MYOB 😇
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475 comments on Bishop Phonsie Cullinane, Waterford & Lismore! He might be jealous of Fr Geoghegans media career but Phonsie is certainly a crowd puller on Bishop Buckley’s blog. No doubt many unprintable comments had to be binned today +Pat. Phonsie has that effect.
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