JOE MC GUIGAN WHO LEFT THE PRIESTHOOD IN BELFAST IN 2003 AND AFTER A GAY SCANDAL AND RUMOURS OF THE HURT OR DEATH OF A YOUNG HOMELESS MAN AFTER THE PRIEST DEMANDED SEX FROM HIM – WAS SPOTTED YESTERDAY MORNING IN CLERICAL DRESS IN BELFAST!
FROM SATURDAY 6 th September 2014
DID A YOUNG MAN IN BELFAST LOSE HIS LIFE TO THE CATHOLIC CHURCH?
DID A YOUNG MAN IN BELFAST LOSE HIS LIFE TO THE CATHOLIC CHURCH?
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IF THE STORY BELOW IS INACCURATE I INVITE ANYONE WHO KNOWS THAT – OR ANYONE INVOLVED OR MENTIONED IN THE STORY TO LET ME KNOW IMMEDIATELY.
I WILL CORRECT ANY INACCURCIES AND APOLOGISE.
IF ANYONE HAS ANY OTHER EVIDENCE I WOULD BE HAPPY TO RECEIVE IT.
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Father Joe McGuigan
The story is this and many people in the Lower Falls and beyond KNOW this story! McGuigan had left the priesthood at the time having, as Bishop Pat says, successfully portrayed himself as a ‘victim’ – quite an incredible feat in itself (Don’t Go Fr Joe, candlelight vigils and all, with good people like Loney Granny having been sucked in by the whole charade of Joe McGuigan as the ‘Mother Teresa’ of the Lower Falls).
Monsignor Tom Toner
A young homeless man went to the now ex-priest McGuigan desperate for accommodation. McGuigan, now being employed in charge of the St Peters homeless centre, told the lad ‘if you don’t have sex with me, I will see to it that you never get a flat anywhere in Belfast.
The young man agreed to sleep with him. Later, feeling bad, he went to the police who advised if he pursued it would go public. The young man didn’t want his parents and girlfriend to find out. He took his own life. He left a suicide note.
FATHER HUGH KENNEDY
That note was shown to Hugh Kennedy who turned on his heel and walked away after reading it.
McGuigan, an unscrupulous sex pest + a vulnerable, desperate young man = tragedy!
There is also the question of finances and McGuigan blaming it all on a local woman.
McGuigan was ‘quietly let go. He is now a ‘Pizza boy’ somewhere up the Road. The whole episode of his ‘coming out’ was paid for by the bishop to a very expensive PR company here in the North – a fortune was paid to ‘manage’ Joe’s shock-horror ‘I’m gay!’ announcement as if we didn’t already know all about his fun and games”.
PAT SAYS:
I kinda laughed recently when someone mentioned that the diocese of D&C was going rehabilitate JOE MC GUIGAN.
He is 19 years out of ministry and is now 54.
He disappeared after he published a photo of himself and others at A LEATHER AND LUBE NIGHT in Dublin by a NI gay group called MEN OF THE NORTH.
As a curate in St Peter’s Cathedral he had specialised in being the cathedral’s flower arranger and in cooking Duck a la Orange for famished clergymen.
He had adopted two senior altar boys and was treating them to tailored kilts in Glasgow and designer clothing in the very expensive Browne Thomas store on Dublin’s Grafton Street.
The above story of the young man began to circulate.
Another story was that he got a job in the homeless centre after he left the cathedral and was found In flagrante delicto with a young man by the homeless centre supervisor.
SUITABLE FOR MINISTRY?
Joe left in 2003 – 19 years ago. He was a regular on the GRINDR up until at least 4 years ago and a regular on the gay scene.
He left over being involved at the extreme end of gay activity.
He misbehaved with at least one young homeless man.
There were financial questions.
WHY, AFTER ALL THIS TIME CAN HE BE REGARDED AS SUITABLE FOR MINISTRY?
What is going on in Down and Connor?
What is Noel Treanor thinking?
Will we soon see FATHER BRENDAN SMYTH dug up from the grave and being placed in an alcove in a cathedral dressed in a golden cope and being pronounced patron saint of irish Catholic Primary Schools?
Can the RCC get any more outrageous or perversely absurd than it is already?
BISHOP PAT BUCKLEY 
171 replies on “THE RESURRECTION BY STEALTH, OF SAINT JOE MC GUIGAN !”
Pat
Please can you explain the circumstances of the photograph of Joe on clerical attire – is this some kind of funeral , wedding etc?
Is that Paddy Mc Caff as the priest beside him ?
Are you seriously suggesting or incredibly evidencing that Joe really has a role in D & C as a priest ?
Pat, please explain in plain English as my heart is pumping at thought of such low depths
Joe Is a lovely fella – just not suited for celibate priesthood
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It was at the funeral of a man called Francis McGuigan.
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A relative, maybe? Even so, if he has not been dismissed from the clerical state, then he must be on administrative leave – and the rules are clear, I.e. No clerical dress and not to present yourself as a priest. He needs to get back on his moped and deliver his pizzas.
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Pat ,
Perhaps Sunday world can investigate if we can’t get a straight answer as to why 19 years later he is in clerical dress . At the funeral , did he concelebrate ? If not , why the collar ??
I note the name of deceased was Mc Guigan and perhaps a family member – but that aside , what is going on ?
Can you please go to find out now that you have broken the story ; or share with a journalist .
As always , and same with Ciaran Dallat and his return at chrism mass , the D&C mafia just brazen it out and don’t care about us .
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He did not concelebrate. Yes, another Dallat case.
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10.08 he’s not a safe person to deliver pizza, no one wants scum like him at their address – that’s how stalking starts from his types. Priests are the biggest stalkers in the world, social media has been a god sent to them now that the public physically avoid them & their types for very valid personal safety concerns.
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Pat
Keep up the good work and don’t allow this to be another Dallat case ; or at least you will not shy away from exposing it for what it is !
Your blog is invaluable
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I have no power – except the power to speak the truth.
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He works for the People’s Kitchen in Belfast now as a centre manager. He’s a snake in the grass and not to be trusted. An organisation that is around vulnerable adults and children everyday. I also hear he’s actively trying to become a priest again, telling everyone so he is.
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12.30 a “lovely fella” who blackmailed a desperate homeless man for sex leading him to suicide. He & all his RC supporters have blood on their hands
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10.14
Joe like Pat is an Independant Priest with the Roman Catholic Church ethos there are many all over Ireland.
They all celebrate Weddings (money money money) Funerals and Baptisms.
As Pat said once a Priest always a Priest
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The RCC have the brass neck to call frightened desparate women who take the desperate route of abortion murderers while their members bring about the murder through suicide of vulnerable people who were in their care. A study should be done why sexual abusers paodophiles and the cover uppers are predominatly from the powerable leading wealthy and authority ateas.
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@ 11:04am
OMG! Patsy, I’d say you were a very powerful oul skin altogether, exposing these degenerate bowsies.. Surely Treanor will have to act now before the scandal gets worse, McGuigan is certainly not a ‘lovely fella’ the exact opposite in fact. Priests should be required to wear clerical dress at all times so they would not be able to visit these dens of iniquity without being identified🙄
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No Fr Brendan Mulhall, it’s not “Fr Paddy McCaff” beside him and well you know it. You are a scream Brenda.
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Dear Bishop Pat, Fr Paddy McCafferty was raped by Fr James Donaghy when he was a young seminary student. He looked about 12 when he was subjected to severe sexual assaults as a young man. Stop allowing degenerate homosexual priests, like Mulhall, to post mischief about him online. I am familiar with his story because when he came to Poleglass we thought he was an altar boy. I have later found out, because he has publicly shared it with us. Stop giving Mulhall and his friend Eugene O’Neill an anonymous platform to get at Fr Paddy.
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Duck a la Orange for the famished clergy eh!
Washed down with a nice drop from Avingnon
No prizes for guessing what happened next with this cabal
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Cherries and cream?
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12.46 Terry’s Chocolate Orange?
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Clerical dress and that’s why I’m 72 years old and have gone against everything I was brought up in & insisted on teaching my grandkids that it’s called a paedophile uniform. A friend had a bad experience 20 years ago and we will never forget how they closed in on him like wolves with bared teeth, total animals to shut him down.
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Yes, I have too. In my case even after the shit hit the fan my own mother sided with the cult against me and I’m delighted to say we were estranged for the last decade of her life.
I have made the guiding principle of my life to have the quality of life which my mother, guided by the cult, didn’t want me to have.
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Sorry to hear that. But they work a lot through mothers and wives.
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Thanks Pat. I have found that people wracked with guilt through separating from parents are strangely drawn to me for help. In any other relationship we can acknowledge that the relationship is over but the Judaeo Christian tradition of our society means you can’t divorce your parents.
The reason churches discourage people from leaving spouses, even abusive ones, is then they’ll get the strength to leave the church.
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I had the opposite experience. My mother fully supported me and picketed Dalys palace.
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10.45 it’s a weaponisation strategy going back decades – clergy Shame devout Daily mass going Mammy from altar & impromptu house calls to “advise” handing her pregnant daughter over to nuns, schemers to get free labour for laundries & free baby to sell and illegally export with false papers on Aer Lingus & on ferries to unvetted childless couples with deep pockets. Some birth mothers who had gone to England to work as domestics were still invoiced by nuns pretending the baby was still in orphanage & that mother had some hope of being reunited. The RC still use various methods of manipulation to further their own financial interests.
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11.02 your mother was a good honest strong woman who found strength and self determination to help her child in supporting you & picketing outside the Cardinals residence when you were victimised & ousted for speaking the truth by Cardinal Cahal Daly before you became a non Roman Independent Bishop. May she Rest in the peace she has truly earned, that was a very painful experience for her and for your family & friends but everything happens for a reason, God meant you for a much higher calling than the thoroughly evil and Corrupt Roman Catholic Church in Ireland.
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10.44 it is very sad to read that the RC cult destroyed your precious relationship with your mother. She was of an older generation more easily brainwashed and intimidated by them. Pray for her and make your peace in your own way, don’t let them win by hating her. X
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@10:44am
What a dreadful thing to say that you were delighted to be estranged from your Mammy for the last decade of her life, Lord rest her.
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God forgive her.
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There are no words….
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Bishops didn’t pay – the sheep did. As they paid for Joe’s debauched nights at L.U.B.E
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@ 5:07pm
Nah! Patsy, God forgive him he must have broke her heart
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This is a very serious matter, brazen faced and brass neck bishops complicit to this day in facilitating all manner of church related deviancy.
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Dean Kennedy cooked his goose trying his luck with Vincent in Westminster, it couldn’t come at at a worst time as in politics, you need to get your timing right and this was the worst time for Kennedy. Bad call as Vinny had enough shit from Brum days and then that awful inquiry too. He basically wanted rid of the big Dean and told Noel basically to ‘”do one” and no coffee/tea discussed or offered for either of them.
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‘that awful inquiry’
You mean the enquiry was awful? And not that Vinnie showed himself up as an awful criminal facilitator and protector at the enquiry?
No denial= you’re a cunt, ‘father’.
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9.26 you have to be a “cunt” to survive within this circle. It’s me or them. If I had the money I’d go.
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Please, please do not make a lack of money be a reason to stay – you will poison the rest of your life and possibly the lives of others.
I’m not sure how I’d be able to help but please – make plans to get out and soon.
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You heard it here, folks. A priest admitting he doesn’t think child abuse and his cult’s cover up should be investigated.
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1.10 bet they get posh apple sauce at M&S or Waitrose or flown in from somewhere.
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There is a reason
why life will never
knock you down
It’s because you are a
S U R V I V O R
Keep safe & keep praying for & supporting each other especially those more vulnerable and suffering the most at this time.
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Not another one! Next we’ll have Neil D’argan back in Killaloe or Cabra, in the Boiler House by night and being Father Perfect to old dears by day.
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6.05 that’s right, gotta keep those dollars rolling in from the old dears. Can’t be many of them left after Covid and everything? Not all granny’s are gullible, mine saw right through them the hard way years ago. She says she not leaving them anything because of all the stuff in the papers.
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This story today is yet another clear example of how this Mafia protect each other. Bad priests never “really” leave because in a Mafia, they all have too much dirt on each other. The bad priests are working away quietly on behalf of the junta & eventually where opportunity arises are wheeled back into yet another unsuspecting community to infect the lives of more innocents with their evil cycle of sexual and financial exploitation. Please feel free to share your experiences on this blog, most contributors post anonymously as those who publish their real names are targetted by the RC and their lay Mafia who are still absolutely determined to continue their various abusive practices & to silence victims and their supporters many who have died waiting for justice.
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6.39 Well said 👏
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Did not realise that sports gear was a “code” in these toxic circles. No wonder there are so many photos of School Chaplin, Fr Jerry Carey convicted of sex act at Salthill beach, Galway, Ireland wearing sports gear.
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6.44 is he still hiding out in Nenagh?
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10.29 apparently so & has a villa in Spain – proper beach boy he is. Probably kicking himself to be caught out on Irish beech when Covid travel travel lockdown to Spanish villa impeded on his activities.
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6.44
What does sports gear signify in these circles? Genuine question.
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Curiosity circles not toxic circles. Sexuality is to be explored.
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If the RCC has to resort to resurrecting total creeps like Joe McGuigan to active ministry to keep the show on the road, then it demonstrates that it’s in the last through of death, desperately gasping as the inevitable approaches.
What I fail to understand is how McGuigan managed to go 19 years without being removed from the clerical state. English dioceses used Pope Benedict’s fast-track administrative procedure to get priests like McGuigan off their books. So, therefore, if any misconduct comes to light in those unsupervised 19 years in which he was still a priest, I am sure the church will have no problem digging deep to compensate potential victims.
The diocese needs to reconsider its approach immediately. I hope the press picks this up.
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‘What I fail to understand’
I honestly don’t mean to be rude but it’s a bit difficult not to notice that for the church rules only apply when they feel like it. If you’ve missed that, it’s high time you noticed.
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This Is the first time to hear of this story. Seems a horrible incident as described. If there’s any scintilla of truth, this guy should not be reinstated as a priest. Simple as. Have we got the full facts? As it reads, it’s horrendous. Pat, I think of all the photos that disturbs victims/survivors of sexual abuse is that of Brendan Smyth. Personally, when I saw it, my body went into shock as it evoked memories of my abuse at 13 years of age for a two year period …Whatever it is about this man’s face…Can his photo be removed? ..But the “former” priest should not be reinstated on the evidence do far. I’m sure there’s lots more details to emerge.
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7.42 The Hierarchy that reinstated him are worse and should also be urgently removed.
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@ 9:33am
You’re right if only that lot could be removed, the only thing is, who would replace them?
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2.55 the bigger question is “who would miss them”? As much use as Ashtrays on motorbikes they are.
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In the interests of public safety it is imperative to keep the heat under this source of endangerment to unsuspecting members of the public. This is exactly how the public are unwittingly identified and targetted by these wolves in church clothing with disasterous and life changing consequences and sometimes the tragic death of their victims.
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So A priest moved to the side out of public view Nineteen years ago due to connections to death of a homeless man who was sexually abused by priest when he sought shelter and later committed suicide & left a note, same priest also connected to Financial irregularities clearly retained his close connections and had an ongoing friendship with RC hierarchy whilst he continued his gay dating app activities on Grindr etc & has now been reinstated. All the more reason why the provision of updated published information is essential & if RC keep refusing to provide it, police authorities must do it in interests of public safety. The current situation represents an ongoing danger to the public safety of all particularly children and vulnerable adults.
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I do see what you’re getting at but this isn’t a police matter as it stands. Unless they are reported missing as such, a private citizen has a perfect right to vanish off the radar, so what is needed is legally to stop priests being private citizens.
Jurisdictions could consider changing the law so that ministers of religion and all paid and voluntary workers have to be registered which would then provide a handle on where they are. This wouldn’t be that different from the way health professionals are registered for the protection of the public.
If there is the slightest suspicion (such as there is about the priests who appear here) they could be tagged so their whereabouts be known.
I also think states should forensically audit the church’s books – current accounting for charities is too vague and would leave out assets like the disastrous London property investment.
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First, I am opposed to a state register of priests akin to doctors, solicitors and accountants, as it only makes sense if they are independently regulated with the power to strike off. Secondly, priests are not professionals and never will be. The state must never recognise them as anything other than private citizens.
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11:04
‘I am opposed to a state register of priests akin to doctors, solicitors and accountants, as it only makes sense if they are independently regulated with the power to strike off’
Who do you think registers doctors and nurses?
Are you stupid? ‘father’? 🤣
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While the details and circumstances of Joe’s departure from the ministry are shocking (to some), even more shocking and distressing are those of his Down and Connor classmate Gerry Murphy.
Murphy, a native of Downpatrick, seems to have disappeared completely.
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I was at that funeral yesterday. I thought I recognised that guy in formal clerical collar but couldn’t put a name to the face. It was only afterwards when I was speaking to someone else who said – ‘I think that’s Joe McGuigan’ – that the light came in.
I’m not absolutely sure but I’m a betting man and I’d put money on it being him.
Barefaced cheek – I wonder if he’s still a member of L.U.B.E. I’d imagine a clerical collar would appeal to the kinksters.
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Who was the priest celebrating the Mass?
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No idea. I’m not from Parish
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I went to a leather bar in London some years ago and I was shocked to see a D&C priest at an adult-baby club in a nappy. ABY was not a sex club, just adults wanting to be babies or daddy’s. Strange
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Bishop Pat, have you contacted the parish and diocese for comment?
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No point.
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10.12 that sums it up. All Diocese are just out for themselves, they don’t give a damn about parishioners or public safety, they all just want everyone to f*** off & die. They are sitting on billions of wealth & assets & all their favours and freebies from networks in high places & that won’t change. Their actions not their words speak the truth.
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What about the paper trail you so often mention? I do think this needs a meticulous approach. The ecclesiastical authorities can’t then turn around and act all surprised. Your solicitor friend could draft a letter to cause them to sweat.
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Bishop Noel had no idea about it until it appeared on this blog.
He has NO intentions of bring joe back into the dioceses of Down and Connor and the Chancellor will address the paper work from the past.
it has to be pointed out there has been No questions or complaints as yet to the Diocesan offices but that could change as it has only been spotted on the blog today.
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Keep thinking of that poor lad, blackmailed into gay sex and then devastatingly taking his life whilst this creep cooked duck a la orange served with Chateauneuf du Pape for his clerical friends.
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@10.39 Prayers for that poor homeless boy. May he somehow Rest in peace.
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. . if one of my family is very ill, they say, “I’ll pray for them.” I say, “Thanks very much,” ‘cause it’s a nice gesture. If they say, “We also canceled the chemotherapy,” I’d go, “Don’t do that. Don’t do that . . . Let’s do the praying and the chemotherapy, shall we? which will have the same effect as just the chemotherapy” Gervais
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Pat.
A tramp. A nasty ,dangerous piece of work.
Hopefully this story being picked up.
As soon as Treanor is dragged into it he’ll be gone – faster than you can say :”pizza delivery”.
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Treanor may be supporting his return?
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Two questions :
1. Is it actually McGuigan?
2. Was he acting of his own accord without the bishops knowledge?
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Let them eat cake 🍰
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Is Joe McGuigan a pizza delivery man?
I thought he worked for The Peoples Kitchen.
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He owned his own pizza parlour, I think.
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Why didn’t he stick to pizzas than try to make a comeback and inflame the reasons for his departure? He must be masochistic, as there would be a widespread protest at his restoration to active ministry
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He did open his own place at Finaghy Road but I don’t think that lasted too long.
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11.14 he has friends in high places that want him back as much as he wants to return. These people simply do not take no for an answer and are ultimately accountable to no one.
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Dear Boshop Pat,
Have you come across the Netflix documentary The Keepers?
Or the murder of the Sister of Marcy Margaret Pahl by Fr Gerald Robinson?
Keepers is ostensibly about child abuse and two intrepid but persistent parishioners to uncover the truth of the murder of their teacher a religous sister.
The murder of Sr Pahl involved a Satanic Ritual by Fr Greald Robinson who stabbed her 32 times in the shape of an inverted cross and penetrated her with a crucifix.
The murder was covered up for 20 years by the Toledo diocese – Robinson was jailed for 15 years and died in prison.
Both stories reveal that the Catholic Church is capable of murder, satanic ritual and high level crime.
Not that you don’t know that but both Keepers and the Pahl murder are despite being in the public domain not that familiar to Catholics who I’m sure don’t believe their leaders are capable of such heinous crimes.
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Yes
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What is the update of satanic rituals in the midlands where it was reported that priests and a retired bishop attended?
Did the bishop put a stop to it?
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3.01 they all in it together 😏
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He’s ministering in the “Teach all nations Church” he has every right to wear a collar just as Bishop Pat has a right to wear his bishopric pointy hat.
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Nonsense – why is the fat priest laughing and joking with him? They seem comfortable together.
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Dear Boshop Pat,
Have you come across the Netflix documentary The Keepers?
Or the murder of the Sister of Marcy Margaret Pahl by Fr Gerald Robinson?
Keepers is ostensibly about child abuse and two intrepid but persistent parishioners to uncover the truth of the murder of their teacher a religous sister.
The murder of Sr Pahl involved a Satanic Ritual by Fr Greald Robinson who stabbed her 32 times in the shape of an inverted cross and penetrated her with a crucifix.
The murder was covered up for 20 years by the Toledo diocese – Robinson was jailed for 15 years and died in prison.
Both stories reveal that the Catholic Church is capable of murder, satanic ritual and high level crime.
Not that you don’t know that but both Keepers and the Pahl murder are despite being in the public domain not that familiar to Catholics who I’m sure don’t believe their leaders are capable of such heinous crimes.
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If you are NEUTRAL in situations of INJUSTICE, you have CHOSEN the
Side of the OPPRESSOR.
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True, 11.25. Saying much the same as Edmund Burke, about evil’s thriving through the inaction of good men.
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I rubbished Karen and Pat’s claims that GF and Carey could come back and be priests again.
How utterly wrong I was and naive to the evil of the RCC. My apologies. If this sex pest can come back then anyone can.
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&11.34 it’s been said on this blog previously that truth is stranger than fiction in the RCC, this is yet more proof. The persistent silence on missing clerics with history speaks volumes & time reveals their ongoing friendship with RCC, thieves can never afford to fall out.
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11.34 Thank you Toddy. Pat knows better than any of us. Free tour on today at Thornfields house (grounds only) & local schools at 3 for anyone interested.
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Canon Unctuous,
I’m sure anyone who has already experienced what you have appreciates your apology but also knows that you have been the victim of a confidence trick.
This takes the form of the church saying that it is the holy, divinely appointed means of grace, which is the front the punter believes and buys. It conditions you to discount the relentless international criminality which goes on behind the front. And the poor victim discounts the reality because the con has conditioned them.
Coming at it cold, you would think the holocaust of innocent children would be enough to make the reasonable man see the church for what it is, and unfortunately most people only realize at a particular point, like you have, where the front is shattered.
You will probably be feeling guilty and betrayed, but the trick is not to forget your realization and let it inform what you now think.
Because from here you will be seeing things quite differently and seeing more problems which you previously discounted.
This is what it’s like when you realize what the cult has done to you, and the reason its damage of lives is never ending and it is so dangerous.
Obvious question: What does it mean if an organization keeps getting caught out in crime and deceit?
Obvious answer: it’s a criminal, deceitful organization.
There is no other possible explanation and it’s exactly what criminal, deceitful organizations don’t want you to see.
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This is 100% true. In view of the fact that it preys on the public, deliberately, is it actually a terrorist organization?
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Sean Hickey and David Dysky nearly died in Maynooth due to cover up.
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11.35 Diocese of Killaloe paid out about €265,000 between them. Insurance policy & sale of some Killaloe land financed the pay offs.
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Stalker talking shit. Pat, why do you allow these private individuals to be bullied by this stalker? Do you not care?
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2.18 Calm down in Killaloe, it’s documented that you purchased their silence and no doubt they signed the necessary clause. Nothing to get anxious about.
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@11.35 are they ok now?
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Venting anonymous Clergy posting venom on this blog are not mad at their colleagues for what they did to victims & supporters
They are mad at whistleblowers for
Proving the truth
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Precisely, 11:39. Proper mafia behaviour.
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11.39 Amen to that.
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****
Anyone know anything about this Teach all Nations Church or it it just a diversion?
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11.50 RCC are cult experts, inevitably they’ll be found setting up more cults with different labels when they are exposed for abuse within RCC itself
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I’ve given Teach All Nations a Google and found there something either calling itself a ministry or church of this name, originally from Australia and based in the UK. Its about page only mentions one man, with no mention of ministry credentials for others or of McGuigan. Their denomination is Assemblies of God so I doubt they’d have a homosexual of any description on the team.
Conclusion: it’s a diversion, and the fact you’ve also got diversionary comments about the celebrant suggests you’re on the money and have rattled some cages.
If it isn’t a diversion the original commenter will soon link the church’s website. 😆
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The Requiem Mass was for Mr Francis McGuigan.
The Priest was the Very Reverend Gabriel Lyons who celebrated the requiem as Parish Priest.
Joe Guigan is no longer a Priests of Down and Connor.
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Is Gabriel Lyons not a slimmer man?
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The Mass was not offered by Gabriel Lyon. You clearly weren’t there or you’d know that.
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If Gabriel Lyons was there a lot is explained. Both De La Salle men. There were a number of them at Maynooth in the 80’s. Maybe Joe wants back in the fold of D&C if his’career’ has panned. A nice cushy parish to practice his flower arrangements and a regular income, with accommodation.
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If that’ Gabriel Lyons then I’m Pope Francis.
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Never kick us when we are down
Because when we get back up …..
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Oh, so does the preferential option for priesthood also extend to resurrection !
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11.16. The bad ones seem to be rising like a Phoenix from the ashes.
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12.09 Best comment of the day.
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12.32 Is it any wonder the bad ones are turning up? They’re probably reading this blog and seeing the new ones coming through and thinking they are less damaged.
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Joe Mc Guigan was a fine looking guy…..he has probably aged considerably.
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Did priests, generally speaking, carry on in this way with women back in the days when men were real men and a pansy was a flower? Or is it that homosexuals are more promiscuous than heterosexuals?
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Hi all
Found you guys online and just want to say I’m real proud to have Irish roots and to see that you are helping victims of the church. This has gone on for far too long around the world including here in the US.
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4.02
Hello there! ☺ And welcome.😃
Good that you enjoy the blog, and that you are proud to have Irish roots.
How can I put this delicately? Not wanting to cause offence, see? 😯
(Ahem) Oh, well! Here goes. 😐 Would you please, for the love of God, refrain from doing what too many of your compatriots with Irish roots do, because they think that having such roots naturally gives them special insights none of us on this side of The Pond have? And this is not to pontificate on Anglo-Irish history because, usually, your compatriots get it so very wrong. Please.
Thank you in bold anticipation.
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4.35 Chris stop taking the piss out of this.
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4.02 you are very welcome to this blog and we look forward to your information and contributions.
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Welcome to the fight! Box clever….
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On the blog topic of today, taking advantage of anyone’s vulnerability is revolting.
“To those of you who at best feel that you are on the margins of the Church, or at worst feel excluded from the Church, I say, “the Church needs to hear your voice!” I ask for your honesty. Do not be afraid to share your pain or to articulate that which you seek in the Church but do not find. You are part of the Church by your Baptism and in this synodal process the voice of every baptised person is equal. Ask the Holy Spirit who dwells in your heart to give you the words that your Church needs to hear.” – Tom Deenihan.
Dom Benedict Andersen was not afraid to share his pain or to articulate that which he sought from the Ordinary of the Diocese. The hypocrisy of Tom Deenihan to retaliate against the victim is absolutely scandalous and morally reprehensible.
“National Novena to Our Lady of Knock: Sunday, August 14th at 3pm
Guest Homilist: Most Rev Tom Deenihan, Bishop of Meath
Theme: What is Christian Hope?”
If Tom Deenihan proceeds with his speech tomorrow, is it further proof that he does indeed have a brass neck?
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4.20 whether he likes it or not Tom is in pending deep shit, like deep, deep shit on this Dom Benedict Andersen withholding of letter of good standing and other issues.
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Tom served as secretary to the Bishop of Cork and Ross prior to his appointment as the Bishop of Meath.
An audit of child safeguarding practices at the diocese of Cork and Ross found that 26 priests had allegations of abuse made against them between 1975 and 2011.
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Who initiated/carried out the audit, Seamus?
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7:37, of the 42 allegations included in the diocesan audit returns and submitted subsequently, 12
could not be categorised in terms of time taken to report. In some cases this was because of incomplete dates provided by the diocese.
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8:38
Very interesting, Seamus. Thank you.
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6.18 RCC has several troublesome Tom’s
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4:20, simply amazing. Tom Deenihan is determined to become the filthiest bishop in Ireland.
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That Fr Brendan Smyth looks pure evil on that photograph, he’d frighten the wits of an adult never mind a little child. Look at his expensive looking teeth, the dentists must love the clergy with their pots of money for fancy teeth.
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I believe PB got a dental job in Turkey. What is the difference?
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Sorry. Hungary
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7.07 it was FM – Turkey 🇹🇷 🦷
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Would the man who celebrated the funeral mass be Fr Brendan Beagon from the neighbouring Holy Spirit?
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He retired from there 12 years ago- ill informed, trouble making buffoon you are.
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I wasn’t trying to cause trouble. I was merely asking a question. How can a question cause trouble?
I know those parishes well but it’s been a while since I’ve been there and I remember Fr Brendan vaguely – that’s why I asked if it was him and NOT stated that it was. Apology accepted.
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6.17 you are a very rude clergyman
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No apology given. You mentioned that elderly man in the hope of stirring up trouble for him, and for no other reason. Shame on you.
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nope – Canon Brendan Beagon is a frail octogenarian
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Thank you for your more civilised response.
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Holey Joe the person and holey Joe the priest. How do the profiles compare and contrast. Its not just RC Many dressie uppie outfits attract a certain type of person. St Paul in his time commented on deviant activity. Where is all this leading
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All this is leading up the garden path, Fly.
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Buzz buzz 8.14 yr not wrong
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4.43pm
Are you kidding me? Clergy have God awful teeth and halitosis a condition inimical to the celibate state.
If only they spent their money on good dental hygiene but alas they don’t.
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6.26pm will take your word for that, wouldn’t be getting close enough to know.
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Joe’s another one who should never have been ordained. I remember him in Maynooth. He was a toxic mix of arrogance and stupidity and full of bombast and unmerited overconfidence.
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A shallow and conceited fool.
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I remember Joe gadding about Maynooth with a hot off the presses copy of ‘A Brief History of Time’ when it first came out, and one of his classmates saying that there was no way that Joe would be able to understand it.
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In 2003 according to the Irish Times, cynics predicted there would no return to active ministry, even if Father McGuigan wanted it. He had broken the 11th Commandment, “Thou Shall Not Be Caught”.
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When you cut off someone toxic from your life
They will never tell people the full story
They will only tell the part that makes you look bad
And makes them look innocent
We all know how good clergy are at playing the martyr, they’ve had centuries of practice
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Saw a poster outside re Mt Melleray apparition 37th anniversary novena as list of speakers were named.
Phonsie is listed as the last speaker on 24th August. Its probably posted in various churches by now as I guess.
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When is the anniversary of the first apparition of the Lord Abbot of Mount Mellaray at the Boiler House in Dublin?
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7.59 Bishop Phonsie is some apparition allright!
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Anon at 8.38pm
LOLOL 🤣🤣🤣.
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Anon at 8.38pm
I found it online (fb) re Mt Melleray Grotto anniversary as I didn’t know it’s there all along.
Its on their fb, it might work for some of you or not depending on your browser.
https://m.facebook.com/melleraygrotto/photos/a.2102077156686304/3489535394607133/?type=3&source=48&__tn__=EH-R
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Bishop Phonsie apparition will be replicated throughout the World-Heaven forbid!
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The only moving statutes in DG’s neck of the woods move after the locals close while DG & Co are mooching home in the dark.Lol.
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What’s Das Fonzie doing in Medjugorje ? Vocation mission?
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You really believe in all that moving statue stuff, DG?
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7:37. You won’t apologise. That’s ok I’ll let you persist with your wilful ignorance. Did you try to belittle or challenge the person that said it was Gabriel Lyons? Would you make the same remark that his name was only mentioned to stir up trouble for him?
And it makes me wonder – why you are so insistent on my tying to stir up trouble. Is it that you know something about this priest that might not be wholesome? Could you be that priest.
Either way, you are clearly intent on finding offence when non was given or intended.
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And for the record – I do not know Fr Brendan at all and bear him no I’ll will.
I’ll say it again – readers were speculating who the celebrant might have been – I offered a suggestion – which one reader was able to tell me, respectfully that he’d since retired. Debate and speculation over.
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You do not know him at all- and yet you had no problem putting his name out in public on this blog- idle speculation. I repeat- you are a troublemaker.
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Just to be clear – I do not know Father Brendan at all. I do not bear him any ill will. I was merely responding to speculation as to who the celebrant might have been. There was no offence intended.
The blog is about wether Joe McGuigan is returning to ministry as a Catholic priest? So on reflection, idle speculation about who the main celebrant might’ve been doesn’t add anything to the debate.
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When you asked your provocative “digging for dirt” question about Canon Beagon you knew fine rightly that he was long retired. Disgraceful.
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Totally agree. The celebrant is not the big issue. It is all speculation as to who has been photographed with a priest’s collar. Anonnymous is really the buffoon. Not you!
Please do not get wound up by numb nuts.
Pax
Garngad Lad
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It it very concerning to note what Bishops allow their members to get away with Scot free but instead focus all their efforts on silencing the victims.
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7.30pm
Oh darling you don’t need to be intimate or close to assess poor dental hygiene and the sulphuric waft and whiff of halitosis – they say don’t they that sufferers are oblivious rather like you!!
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Treanor nor the warbling member of the place which doesn’t exist couldn’t care if a trained monkey said mass as long as it was able to generate money
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11.04 Truth be known, we’d have less headaches with the trained monkeys!
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