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UNI STUDENTS AND NURSES SLEEPING IN THEIR CARS !!!

https://www.independent.ie/business/budget/im-living-out-of-my-car-because-i-cant-get-accommodation-for-college-42022616.html

After sending more than 150 emails to landlords and receiving just two replies, a 21-year-old student is living out of her car in Galway city as her search to find accommodation has become dire.

University of Galway student Jessica McGirr said the Budget 2023 measures that have been announced for students are positive, but they don’t help to address the issue that there are very few rentals available in the country.

She welcomes that the student contribution fee has been reduced by €500, saying it will especially benefit students whose parents don’t qualify for the SUSI grant but they pay their own fees.

BBC

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-62075582.amp

A student nurse has said he has slept in his car between work placement shifts to try to avoid the rising cost of fuel.

Jake Benjamin Smart is a mental health student nurse at Ulster University’s Magee campus in Londonderry.

The third-year student is calling on the Department of Health to increase the travel allowance paid to students.

Health Minister Robin Swann announced an increase in payments for most health and social care workers last month.

In a statement, the Department of Health said they are reviewing the mileage rate to be paid to students for the next academic year, starting in September.

Speaking to BBC Radio Foyle, the third-year nursing student said that himself and many of his peers are struggling during the cost-of-living crisis.

PAT SAYS

We are really in trouble when our uni students and our nurses are reduced to sleeping in their cars as they can’t find a place to rent and the rent to pay for it.

All homelessness is a very distressing problem.

And it’s on the increase.

The primary responsibility for this lies with the government.

The government needs to ompose fines on the owners of empty properties.

They should also impose rent caps on landlords.

The right to shelter is a basic human right

The Churches, including the RCC should not be allowed to have big empty properties.

Jesus did say:

“I was a stranger and you made me welcome”.

225 replies on “UNI STUDENTS AND NURSES SLEEPING IN THEIR CARS !!!”

The housing crisis is absolutely shocking and so miserable for young people. It looks increasingly unlikely that my younger children will ever be able to afford to buy their own home although they are educated with average salaries.

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11.34 yes, I agree, it’s completely demoralising to see these multiple landlords, many such landlords also esteemed members of church faithful, yet shamelessly being supported by church whilst they feeding off the most vulnerable members of Irish society.

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There’s a prominent member of the SDLP who owns hundreds of properties in the Holylands area of Belfast.

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3:07 this is NOT a blog about the SDLP, are you lost! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Young people have a very poor quality of life stressing about high rents and the inability to secure affordable housing.

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11.50 we’ve been married for 3 years, on the face of it have 2 good jobs, unlike many of our friends, we chose to have a small wedding as we were saving for a deposit on a modest house in our town but the combination of increases on our rent coupled with ever rising house prices and to cap it all, our landlord has thrown in the towel & our rental now up for sale, we are seriously looking at being homeless in the coming months. It is beyond comprehension to the point where we may have no option but to emigrate to avoid homelessness and if that happens, we won’t be able to afford to return permanently to Ireland, we thought we’d be starting a family by now but living in Ireland this is impossible in our current circumstances due to this housing crisis. Thank you for bringing this up, we normally read this blog to support friends that you help and we hope that Bill and you make friends again. Seems a shame the poor guy joined the priesthood in the first place, he seems a decent, very witty and intelligent man and my wife and I are rooting for him and others on your blog.

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11.26 Darren, I hope that you and your partner find new accommodations. We are in very bad times, however God is our provider and He will never leave us or forsake us.

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11.52 No, you are wrong, it is 1 in 6 houses in County Clare, that was in Clare Champion newspaper last week. Bill Mulvihill should have stayed in Ennis!

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Our parochial house has been vacant since the priest moved up the road with his boyfriend. You can never get in contact with the secretary either, she works 2 hours a week.

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Let’s just say she’ll get accommodation. This is a sort of publicity stunt. The mess lies with the horrible and incompetent government. Accepting nearly unlimited illegal migration and housing them (no homeless in the 26 are Nigerians or similar, almost all Irish and some East Europeans), giving vast tax benefits to REITs who gobble up land and rent only the wealthier tenant. A rent control amount of 2% is insane and the RTB are the worst public body in existence, even if TUSLA provide stiff competition. Their website doesn’t work properly and almost takes the incorrect amount in fees. These were supposedly to be refunded but rarely are. There is again a tax credit for renters, but the small landlord sees only persecution and just sells up. A notable issue is the fraudster riddled daft.ie. Many don’t know that a landlord will use an auctioneer and maybe advertise locally. God help us anyhow. If He won’t, we’re up shit creek etc.

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12.08 it’s no stunt, shameful that respectable well intentioned young Irish people trying to make their way in life are being demoralised in this way. Many are simply giving up & emigrating whilst incoming foreign nationals experience little or no housing distress. Michael Collins died for nothing, when you think about where Ireland is today. England is not our enemy, now, Ireland has turned in on itself & become its own worse enemy manifested in what is being done to the mental health of our young people starting out in life. I hope something is done for young Irish people sooner rather than later before most of them are forced back to the bad old days of mass emigration, most never to return.

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I fear for homeless ex priest, William Mulvihill when the money his friends lent him runs out. He is clearly unwell & therefore incapable of budgeting sensibly so possibly will be unable to afford the serviced apartment by Christmas. Very sad situation for this former priest now at odds with the Roman Catholic Church.

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7:57 I disagree, as Bishop Pat knows having had to undergo therapy to recover from his own years in ministry, William Mulvihill isn’t the first person to have his sanity compromised by Roman church duplicity & abuse. no one deserves to have their lives destroyed by these tricksters posing as representing an honest and decent church when outcomes such as the gradual disintegration of victims sanity and dignity prove what a dangerous and destructive organisation the Roman Catholic Church is. The toxic & unchristian manner in which anonymous clerics and their friends address William and the mother targetted by the Ennis priest speaks volumes of the truth about church types and what they get off on in seeking ways to abuse their fellow human beings. A dangerous cult of clergy & their volunteers & clearly with so much free time on their hands. Hoping William Mulvihill, Dom Benedict Andersen and the mother, her family in Clare and anyone else being abused in any related way by these awful people finds justice and eventual peace back in their lives. Pax

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9.59 Bless you. “The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound; to proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn; to appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.”
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Westport 7:57
You have explained it in a nut shell.
The RCC do not carry out the teachings of Jesus as told in the bible and thus Jesus cannot be with the church and the carry on and manipulation that is carried out. No wonder the world has gone crazy. Jesus said he will remain with his church for all eternity and he is found in the hearts of each and everyone of us as we try to help each other by allowing his love to flow through us.

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It’s the ex-priest thing that’s causing the worry. Up until today not a single expression of concern has been made on the blog for the homeless and they were all ranting and raving at him until Pat said he was (of his own choice, he’s a grown man, FFS) sleeping in a tent.

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Bill, You know Pat can never be the Supreme Pontiff as like you and the LMB there is no chance as you are all outside Holy Mother Church.
However we pray someday you all will repent and return to the fold God willing.

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6.55 I am not outside it. Its dearest children are at its fringes ( Cardinal Marty) but I am of The Chosen now. If you think that delusional…..you have little faith.

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@ 8:28am
Well if you think you are of the ‘chosen’ why don’t you todle off to the nearest Synagogue and ponce off them for a change. I’m sure they’ll soon show you the door.

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10.19 Do I detect an Antisemite lurking on this blog? Synagogue would never turn William away…he is always welcome.

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8.28: Bill, can you stop being a victim? You clearly chose this particular pathway. No one else chose for you. You got financial support from Archbishop Martin – very generously – and you received money from other people, including Pat. You ought to have used such kindness to find suitable accomodation. I have 4/5 families who call to my door on a weekly basis and the odd homeless wanderer: wouldn’t I Iove to have the kind of money you have so I could support these worthy people? Bill, there’s little relevance for you commenting any further unless and until you take all the good advice given to you. Do yourself a favour for your own well being and seek proper help. You cannot continue to manipulate the emotions of commenters. Nor can you or any commenter lay blame on the Church for your travails: The truth is you were financially looked after and on leaving priesthood you chose a particular attitude and mindset which, sadly, is destructive for you. I hope you’ll mind yourself.

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@ 6:55am
OMG! you know who, is back after saying she would never be on the blog again. Still giving out about Supreme Pontiff and Holy Mother Church and her false sanctimonious prayers, get a grip ya cretin!🙄😏

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@ 10:35am
Nothing antisemetic about my comment at all. I just thought you’d be smarter to recognize a ponce than others. My Granny lit the fires for a Mr Cohen on a Saturday for years. She always quoted him saying , ‘Mrs Rafferty to trust is good, not to trust is better’ cynical but often true.

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@10.41 am
Bill cannot cope with being the person he is so he invents a different persona for himself and unfortunately some people believe him.

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@10.41 am
Bill’s behaviour squandering money given to him to help him out – 16,000 euros from one person and £1,500 from another, together with Pat’s generosity is disgraceful behaviour. Bill cannot cope with being the person he is so he invents a different persona for himself and unfortunately some people believe him.

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2:15 we thought we knew our priest until my brother who is out and proud spotted him in a gay sauna near where he works!

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11.21 I might consider the Jewish option – turns out the shower I was baptised into have the knives out for me good and proper.

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6:55 do you mean the Holy Mother Church headed by Fraudulent Frankie in the Vatican who daren’t risk taking a flight home to Argentina because of outstanding legal issues? 🙈

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Everyone is entitled to express their own opinions on this blog. It is called free speech. Don’t like it? That’s your problem.

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Your granny sounds like a smart lady, who knows a thing or two , I get the blame for everything even I don’t contribute
But making a comment designed only to fuel and hurt by responding blaming someone else speak volumes, the jig is up love …

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3.25 Now how did you come to that conclusion when the commentator at 11.21 said his Granny quoted the Jewish man?

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4.29 You shoot from the hip without any real thought as to what you are saying. Do the words ‘Armagh Abuse’ mean anything to you? Are you familiar with the word ‘whistleblower’ ? Now crawl back into your hole troll.

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7:31 Coolio for canonisation. Why not when you look around at all the ongoing crime, corruption and criminality connected to the Roman Catholic Church, it must qualify as the ultimate Gangstas Paradise. Ask any of their money fiddling, kiddy fiddling clerics and pals being facilitated around the world.

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I have just qualified as a mental health nurse, I am having to work agency as only a nursing auxiliary as they are paid more than I am as a newly qualified nurse. This is ridiculous, where is the incentive for anyone to try and better themselves. I am from Tyrone and did my training in Belfast; 3 times in my final year placement I had to sleep in my car as I could not afford to stay anywhere or drive home. Thank you for highlighting such Bishop Pat.

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9:45 you could say that of any priest who is not in the RCC system as a means to hide his vices.

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Michael you are better than being a hca, persevere with the lower wage for the time being and don’t do hca work as a monkey could do that job.

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WM made his own sleeping bag, pitched his own tent and therefore should lie in it.
I am fed up with homeless getting blamed on their circumstances.
Majority have addiction issues and do not know better.

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William Mulvihill has a long term history of substance abuse – so he should be afforded the same empathy

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7:57 Poor aul Cardinal Zen had better move to Meath, Armagh or Killaloe, it’ll be his only hope of getting air time in this blog. Maybe William Mulvihill could lend him the tent whilst he’s gone jetting off wherever or they could split the rent somewhere. Win, Win

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To WM:
From the Book of Common Prayer belonging to the 1st Duke of Leinster/20th Earl of Kildare, James Fitzgerald:
Saint Michael & All the Angels
The Collect
O Everlasting God, who hast ordained and constituted the services of Angels and men in a wonderful order; Mercifully grant, that as thy holy Angels always do thee service in heaven; so by thy appointment they may succour and defend us on earth, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
For the Epistle: Rev. 12:7-12
‘And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, and prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night. And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death. Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.’
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@10.07 am
Leaving the RC Church worked out well for you didn’t it. Hope no one else gives you their money to squander – it was meant to help you out!!!!

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@ 8:06am

I don’t think quoting from a heretical prayer book and then to be endorsed by the great apostate Mulvahill is anything to be happy about. I wonder what force he wants to be with us means?🙄

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You nasty piece of work. Do you not know that Maynooth owes its very existence to Fitzgerald and his descendants?

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Aren’t all the 4 MIA Co PPs in Roscrea, Ennis and Doora Barefield of Killaloe Diocese the lucky bunch. They don’t have to worry about pay or where to sleep at night or living out of their cars like these student nurses.. a priviliged and pampered elite.. a true closed boys club.. Lugs Monahan pays them handsomely, full pay and benefits- for their ‘time out’ .. They don’t have to worry about sleeping in cars or paying bills or how to make a useful contribution to society. They can behave as they want to.. no supervision or being held to account with their ‘friends’.. party on boys.. It’s a great church and country.. But, during Covid a lot of older people stopped going to mass and paying up.. the only way this will stop is when the funds start to run low. Lugs will just keep selling properties to keep the ship afloat for a bit longer..

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I think Fintan is paying GF a reduced rate. He also lost the use of the house in Ennis. While he’s hardly on the bones of his arse I daresay he isnt well off either. Mind you he did have 17k in his bank account, which could be his. And was buying Hulk Hogan vintage figures.
I live and work abroad and much as I would like to return home to Ireland but realistically we will have to stay. The cost of living is out of control there and what is worse is that it isn’t going to improve anytime soon. There is no serious political will to do this, especially with accommodation/housing. That rag the Indo are jumping up and down cheerleading the giveaway budget and the Sinn Fein councillor getting done for murder so there is a significant chance that FFG may end up back in power. Its funny because the giveaway budget is only a finger in the dyke for this year. The reality is parents like me have to think about what we are going to be able to give kids later to they can make a start in life – in Ireland at the moment it is just not possible to save for the future for kids on two normal professional wages with a mortgage and the kids are going to need serious wedges in future if this continues.

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You know nothing Todd. It’s all presumptions and assumptions on this blog and ramblings of people with mental illness. Give the Ger Fitz saga a rest, I couldn’t care less what +Monahan is paying him and from what I can read, GF too is vulnerable and certainly suffering from some mental illness also. Can you have compassion for all involved and instead of twisting a knife maybe say a prayer?

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@9.55 give it a rest. The continued adventures of GF have been posted many times by the blog author. Take it up with him.

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12.15 spreading false & malicious rumours to divert from the “truth of your self interests” is monitored. Happy to communicate with Canon Todd & others with evidence at appropriate juncture. Defamation of character is an extremely serious matter.

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9:55 Fr Fitzgerald damaged those 2 Ennis ladies that we know about on this blog and elsewhere. He was ordained under dubious circumstances, Diocese of Killaloe is responsible for Fr Fitzgerald and those 2 ladies. The moral of story seems to be, if you want to keep your head, keep away from the Irish Catholic Church. Just look at the state of ex priest Fr William Mulvihill, anyone reading this blog can honestly conclude the clerics & system he was unfortunate to encounter have totally melted his poor head and he’s ended up in a fucking tent as a consequence whilst all these bishops & their pals live in mansions funded through immoral earnings and blood of victims of historical church related atrocities including baby smuggling, trafficking, enforced labour, all manner of forgery and fiddling covered up to fill their coffers.

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GF has no free house anymore , he is not receiving any benefits from the church.
.nor could he celebrate he’s own fathers mass
let alone others….

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11.51 There are a plethora of comments by Fr/Canon Todd Unctious on previous blogs which amply provide a legitimate premise for the question at 12.15.

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Fitzgerald will not get he’s way with Fintan,. Confident on it and I don’t need to think or go an opinion !

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@4.54 so GF is NOT on the payroll? That being so he shouldnt be getting mentioned on this blog

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1:12 if it weren’t for my family I’d be in a fucking tent too, thanks to RC & their cabal

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4:54 get real, you didn’t think Fr Ger Jones was going to live with Fitzy did y’all! Ryano wouldn’t give shelter to the homeless tramp so he wasn’t going to share his pad with Fitzy either. They all mind themselves, you won’t find them taking in any Ukrainians either.

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7.53 The Diocese gave you personal information about one of their priest’s salaries? Really? That would be a breech of GDPR. He is still listed on priest directory. You probably heard it from the flying monkeys 🤣

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I know GF is not on the payroll as I rang the Diocesan office in Ennis and asked and I was told he is no longer being paid and that I’ve enough of this bullshit. If you don’t believe me ring yourselves
Killaloe Diocesan Office
Westbourne, Cusack Road,
Ennis,
Co. Clare, V95 W63H
Tel +353 65 682 8638
Fax +353 65 684 2538
office@killaloediocese.ie

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7.27 FYI, I asked was he a paid member of the clergy of the Diocese of Killaloe and i was told he wasnt , I didn’t ask about his salary. Enough of this bullshit!!!

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Retired priests and priests helping out in the diocese appear in the clerical listing for all dioceses, being listed doesn’t automatically mean you receive a salary. Just saying….

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There’s no MIA Co-PPs in Roscrea – both of the former Co-PPs are living in the parish while on sabbatical! Go figure that one out!!!!

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11.14 nothing to figure out, they are both on Killaloe payroll and, therefore, working along with their networks behind the scenes on Killaloe interests. When they all “in that deep”, there’s no coming out. Hoping you weren’t naive enough to think any of them had fallen out with each other. That never happens in a well oiled mafioso.

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Yes. And kicking up a good time I hear. At least its all more honest now. Out in the open finallly. Roscrea and Killaloe priest collections should be boycotted. The reverend gentlemen should go get real jobs now.

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7.53
The Diocesan Staff would not be allowed to confirm or say otherwise about any Clergy or lay employee’s. (date Protection act Ireland 2018)
When you see Ger and Jerry being removed from the Clergy List then that is when they have had a settlement until then they are Killaloe Clergy and get everthing they are entitled too including a salary.
Watch this space.
http://www.killaloediocese.ie/priest/

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Fitzgerald has no children not because he’s a priest and forbidden , because he’s insecure despite he devilish ways.
Maynooth was there long before he was and maynooth will still be there long after he’s gone.

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3.41 Do you honestly think that GF would tell anyone if he had a child? Someone once said on the blog that he didn’t take precautions when engaged in sexual activities. Anything is possible!

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@ 2:36pm
Thanks very much ya nasty cretin for that information. We now know why Maynooth ended up a disgrace. If it owes its existence to that lot it probably had a curse on it. That explains how it became the den of iniquity we hear about on this blog .😏😏😏

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Prayers for the 8 year old Ukrainian girl and her mother.
Ennis parish priest Fr Tom Ryan told the Irish Examiner that prayers were offered at Masses in the locality on Wednesday for the mother and daughter. He said: “Such an incident has saddened not just the Ukrainians in the area but the entire community.”
https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-40971431.html

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8:21 Where does Fr Tom Ryan or any Catholic clergyman get the “right” to speak “for the whole community”. More impertinent arrogance & no disrespect intended to the victims of crime in Clarecastle. He’s got an agenda & just jumping on this latest bandwagon to overturn how he & his close colleagues treat people in their communities on a daily basis. Ive never met this Fr Ryan priest and what I’ve seen and heard of him and his pals in our County, he and they certainly has no right whatsoever to speak “for the whole community. What an arrogant presumptive p**** he looks and acts like. Hoping the woman & child make a full recovery.

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Well done bloggers. The truth will set you free, even if it is revolting.

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@9.40 Fr Tom Ryan is not even a priest in Clarecastle parish! Why is he sticking his nose into Clarecastle village now. My brother lives in Shannon, glad to see back of him when Ennis took him.

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Apparently he read out a bullshit letter at mass during the GF crisis last year. Upset a lot of parishoners victim blaming

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10.12 decades of that carry on from Fr Tom Ryan and his brother in law, Fr Brendan Quinlivan, the communications and media mogul for Killaloe diocese.

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9.40: Having castigated Fr. Ryan so ignorantly you give only 9 words about the tragedy!! We know where your concern lies and it’s not with the woman and her child! You buffoon of a prick!!

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‘Thank God for the prayerful presence of Sr Briege McKenna & Fr Pablo interceding for @KillaloeDiocese priests & people at St Flannan’s Church, Killaloe‘

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@ 10.18
Father Tom Ryan is not the PP of Castleclare he is the Dean of the Abbey Pastoral Area like an Area Manager for the Area a Dean.
God Bless Father Tom Ryan

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The hierarchy will welcome the story of Mulvihill and ending up on the streets. It will warn other priests of their financial dependence upon Holy Mother Church and the consequences of leaving or defying them.

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@ 9:28am

Bileen is only receiving the consequences of his apostasy, which he rightfully deserves. Just look at how he treated poor Patsy who supported him. The excuse of being mad is wrong, he is just bad and whatever happen will be the price of him.

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8.56 Mad, Bad and Sad…great book about your subject matter…only its about women.. God bless you.

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Your reminder at 8:56 that the cult wants you dead unless you kowtow to it.

Pro life my arse.

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@8.56 am
Here here.
Bill lives in a tent because he wants to. Apparently he is squandering money (kindly given to him to help him out) by staying in an expensive hotel.
16,000 euros from one friend and £1,500 from another.

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In fairness Bishop Pat, and I appreciate you’ve been gagged. but they did try to force you out of your home in Larne. They would have had no qualms about seeing you on the streets.

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@ 10:11am
Bileen the only flight you’ll be on is by broomstick, all the way to perdition, not what I would call safe.🙄

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Why are you persisting in this Water Mitty behavior? You are not leading a jet-set lifestyle, with fine dining, wines and hundreds of friends. You are without a pot to pi$$ in, no home, and ill. Why don’t you accept the help of people like Bishop Pat who can help you to turn things around?

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I’m not Bill but your comment is a bit like the kettle calling the pot black – the Roman Church keeps denying justice to victims and survivors worldwide but still attempts to demand a respect and a following it subsequently abuses & manipulates for its own ends at the first given opportunity!

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Firstly Bill whether your trip is real or imagined your remarks betray a fear of flying. Air France are no more or less safe than Aer Lingus, Ryanair etc. If you are flying on any European, American, Asian or Middle Eastern airlines I can assure you you are safe. Planes cost hundreds of millions of Euros and are pretty sturdy bits of gear. Nothing is going to happen you. Your odds of dying in plane crash are up there with winning the Irish lottery.
Secondly wouldnt you be better off putting your funds towards housing yourself?

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Canon Todd at 12:00
A sensible point. In fact a correct understanding of risk is so helpful. If more people had it they would know that in the USA children are safer at drag queen story hour than at either school or church.

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@10.11 am
For goodness sake Bill stop this deluded behaviour trying to pretend you are someone else. We all know the truth now.
Flying to France my left foot?

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9.28: Utter silly nonsense. LIES. Bill clearly is incapable is living on his own. He deserted priesthood and chose his way of new freedom. Sadly, the outcome is not good. None of us can ever trust Bill. He plays loose with our emotions and with truth itself. His destiny is unknown as he refuses to LISTEN to true carers.

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9.28 they rejoice in wrong doing unto others particularly when they profit financially from the evil their members do.

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When I trained as a nurse many decades ago, Ireland was a very poor country but we never had to worry about food or somewhere to live. We lived in nurses home in grounds of hospitals where we trained and had good meals cooked in the hospital kitchens. We worked very hard but we had very good times too, lovely parties in the nurses homes and made friends for life. It’s unthinkable to see what young nurses are going through now & they cannot be expected to deliver safe levels of care to patients when the most basic of their own personal needs are not being met. God love them.

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10.32 You know me so well. Hedonism begins on a decent broomstick. My oldest handle is Sybaris…now that was a city I would like to have lived in….Like the Myan civilisation of SA, nobody knows why it died out so quickly. They theorise that it was an STI that spread rapidly through the population before any understanding of suck things !!

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@9.47 am. FFS go back to your tent and do some serious thinking and while you’re at it, get a grip and make an appointment to see your GP for a referral to mental health services. In fact go private at least that is a better use of the money you have kindly been given.

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10.51 Its a line from Yeats: Appearances mock reality. Do I smell envy in your comment. I wish you in your life the measure of happiness in mine.

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@9:36am. Good points, Mary, about the nurses homes. Next to the City Hospital Belfast there is a big tower block, which is where the nurses used to live. It was sold off and turned into flats for anyone to live in, provided they could pay, and now a nurse couldn’t a flat in it.

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Pat you should reach out to Bill you can further – exhaust all opportunities for him and you will reap what you sow.

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Pat doesn’t have to do anything he doesn’t want to, I think all this Molly cuddling the Mulvi is making me sick.

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@9.46 am. Don’t be so silly, Pat has done more than he should, paying for him to stay in a hotel, having him stay with him in Larne. Then what does thankless Bill do? He betrays Pat. The best thing Pat can do is cut loose from Bill.

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Please stop calling my in law ‘Lugs’. He is one of the good bishops. Look at his podcasts and insta he does alot more work than some bishops living off there double pensions.
The student homeless situation is a stunt. Galway has been a party city for decades with anti social behaviour. Landlords have decided enough is enough. Too many complaints from neighbours etc. All night parties, drug and drink taking the list is endless. Let them study online why was the Internet invented?? One junior doctor in Galway hospital said to me recently that he googled his way through college. So much for college. My parents never went to college but worked with there hands not a computer screen.

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9:47 what double pensions do the other Irish Bishops receive? I can understand your brother in law having the right to be annoyed about that. It’s so belittling and demeaning to be denied one’s rights.

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Bill is heading for Paris and then for Germany to stay with a family. He will be a great burden on that family. His two Aussie friends, both psychiatrists, diagnosed him and he has blocked them since. I have kept them updated on Bill’s behaviour.

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10.37: The more oxygen given to Bill through this blog the more he feels the need to demonstrate greater dysfunctionality. He has no relationships of any depth, meaning or nourishment in his life. He continues to be delusional with a the promises he makes, hoping that some unsuspecting “kind” person or family will fall for his charm offensive. Bill burns out his contacts all too quickly but exploitatively. He is homeless, sadly but at a deeper level, he is also “spiritually and emotionally” homeless. If only he would LISTEN!!!

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10.37 who do you think you are to be discussing William Mulvihills business or the business of anyone else with third parties you anonymous nosey interfering jackeen for a priest. The Data Protection Office had better prove itself to not also to be run by crooks and to deal with all the breaches of human data rights currently being conducted by Irish Roman Catholic Church. EC legislation is very clear about human rights laws in relation to the acquisition, storage and appropriate, relevant dissemination of information and all this legislation is being abused daily in Diocese all over Ireland.

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Good morning Bishop Pat. I am deeply saddened at the falling out of two of my favourite people in world, yourself and William Mulvihill. I hope you can both recover from this and move on and wish you both the best of health going forward.

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William has never had a good thing to say about you so I don’t know how he’s your fave person, plus you have never met him

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William hates anyone called Philomena because of his primary 7 teacher – he show cases like he loves it
Fake
FAke
FAKe
FAKE
news, like he loves – him and his mate Donald and Vladimir

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2000 employees have recently been sacked by Meta in Dublin…not a word in the news….Meta are relocating to Poland, period How dare he use a beautiful Greek word in such a manner.

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Who would rent a tent out after Bill? The bag lady? Bill is not flying anywhere in the next few days, he has been drinking too much red bull

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2.28 You are a spineless, anonymous cretin. Which Diocese are you in? I hear Killaloe takes really good care of its homeless population. You might try pitching a tent on the Ennis Cathedral grounds.

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10:47am speaks about Fr. Tom Ryan and his “brother-in-law” Fr. Brendan Quinlivan. How can they be related in that way? I assume one of them would have to have a sister married to the other one!!!!! Two priests cannot, because of the ban on married clergy, be brothers-in-law.

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11:32 You correctly question the brother in law relationship between two priests but I would question your use of the word ‘can’t’ – I think you mean ‘shouldn’t’ because otherwise priests
Can’t be sexually active
Can’t be gay
Can’t be abusers
Can’t be criminals
… and we know they can be and are all these things.

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10.53 I read no allegation of any wrong doing in relation to the 2 Killaloe family priests mentioned @ 10.47am , their family connection to each is common knowledge in Killaloe. No secret. 11.32 may or may not already have known of their family connection to each other. Term is correct in the context. Those with right to know, know. Rights of all should therefore be respected in the conduct of their private business with senior church members and should not be made available as canon fodder for the great unwashed. Interesting to view the great efforts that go into cover up rather than in satisfactorily resolving outstanding business. No need to be so emotional about being held to account unless of course one is gaining personally from it in some way. Also no need to be gloating at the misfortunes of vulnerable persons deceased and living targetted by their social and financial influencers.

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2:17 I don’t know what comment you think your replying to but it certainly isn’t mine. 🤣

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Pat
You owe Paul Taylor an apology for wrongly siding with Bully Mulvihill. 10k handed over to help Bully who gave his cheap art as collateral.
Billy is not a nice person

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Pat you did nothing wrong – don’t ever apologise you are an Angel in the disguise of a man. X

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10,000 Aus dollars….4000 Irish pounds/ euros….all traceable through my ANZ bank account at the time…exhautive records. Thank you. The Arthur Boyd print is worth at least 15, 000 euros now…thats one of seven …Klitz and Arthur O Neill. Its amazing Bishop Buckley has a sea change and all narrative changes on The Blog.

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Billy, I don’t think you understand what the term collateral means. You didn’t pay Paul back in the timeframe agreed, therefore your art belongs to him. He gave you 10k!!! Then you tried to blackmail him. Then you tried to use Pat to go after him. You are a disgusting human being and Pat is now seeing the real you.
Sniff Sniff Billy.

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2.08: Bill, Pat is right to have a sea change. Pity you don’t follow suit!! Your presence on this blog is odious. Keep away.

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Newstalk just interviewed a teaching fellow at TCD on a 9 month ongoing contract who is living in a dormitory with under very crowded conditions because he cannot find accommodations. There are many more where he came from. Meanwhile you have Bishop Monahan retweeting Trócaire’s tweet voicing approval for sending millions overseas. Help the people at home first you sanctimonious gobshites! Sure the politicians, charity managers and clergy all have it made in the shade. They don’t give a fuck about the ordinary Joe struggling to find housing, struggling to pay for electricity and food, and struggling to put petrol in their car. Proper evil bastardos who are oblivious to the suffering on the streets. For them, love of filthy lucre reigns supreme!!

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First of all there is nothing wrong with Fintan retweeting that. Trocaire do great work abroad and just because Ireland is in trouble shouldnt mean we drop everyone else too. Fintan and GF do not seem to be the worst guys in the world really.
The problem of housing is literally caused by mass immigration. I have nothing against immigration -I live abroad myself – but there are simply not enough houses for everyone. Ireland does not have enough workers for all the work she is doing and has to import, and this is especially true of companies below the blue-chips, who hire outside the EU with work permits to keep the wage cost down. It is the Irish themselves -landlords -who have decided to rob everybody. Simple law changes like tax reductions for small landlords and rent being fixed at 125% of mortgage repayment would have sorted this out long ago. Instead the Irish are cannabilizing the Irish, with shitty semi-ds being rented out for 2.5k a month when the mortgage is 1k. This should simply never have been allowed, irrespective of demand, from day 1 when things started to pick up in 2014. Secondly the learn-English-to-get-a-visa scam needs to be banned totally – these are private schools making no serious tax payer contribution yet are filling the country, especially Dublin, with students and making it harder to rent for workers and third level students. This is the worst I have ever seen it in Ireland -just 700-800 properties on Daft today, all prohibitively expensive. Unless Sinn Fein do something about it there is going to be serious social disorder in Ireland.

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1:14 what’s new, the Irish did much more to each other than the English ever did to them, don’t you remember your history books about the levellers and the gombeen men & the workhouse fiddlers trading the supplies during the Famine

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12.54: You are so wrong in your anger. Thank God that TROCAIRE receives the huge support it does. As a charity it is at the heart of responding to unimaginable suffering. YIUR ANGER IS MISDIRECTED. Every parish has a St. v de Paul Group who do immense work in helping struggling families. Where do they get the majority of funds they require?THROUGH MONTHLY CHURCH GATE COLLECTIONS and no one begrudges giving generously to them. Most parishes have a charity fund through which many families receive necessary support. Less if you keyboard shite and LIES!! Are you a contributor to any charity??

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1.27 My anger is directed at the government for sending millions abroad when they ought to be using that money to help alleviate the poverty at home! If we are on the subject of Trócaire: TROCAIRE received in 2019/20 €64million.
‘Trocaire, which had an income of €64million in 2019/20, paid its CEO €125,000 in 2018 and 2019. Two people are paid more than €100,000 and 32 greater than €60,000.’ Of course the fat cats want to stay well fed! Do I contribute to charities? It really is none of your business…but I will answer. It depends on how much of each euro actually goes to help people and how much is spent on administrative salaries. There are other ways to help charities: I donate household goods to SVP. I certainly would not donate to Trócaire given their recent rap on the knuckles by the Charities Regulator!
https://m.jpost.com/opinion/article-709206/amp

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4.05: Sir, many charities, as you know, have been subjected to much scrutiny re: money accountability and some revelations have been shocking. You are right on one thing, not just about TROCAIRE, but salary levels are way too high for directors and co-directors. There is also the problem of a proliferation of charities doing similar work, which is why I donate only to TROCAIRE, Br. Kevin, Alice Leahy, ALONE and St. v. de Paul. I disagree with your targeting of TROCAIRE. Is it because it’s the Church’s official third world charity? Also, I believe the argument about the government looking after their own people first is a bogus one. There is a moral duty on all such nations to look generously beyond its borders. As TROCAIRE says: “Give a little so that others may simply live”…So true!

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4.29 I identify as a heterosexual female, therefore I ask that you please refer to me as Madam as opposed to Sir.
Allow me to quote: Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by this wisdom.
Edmund Burke: Reflections on the Revolution in France

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If you abolish bedsits and make it more an more difficult for landlords to rent property you end up with more an more homelessness. I spent my 20s in bedsits in Dublin an London. They were not ideal but they were fine an affordable. The Greens abolished them. It is now more an more difficult to evict tenants. There are rent controls on increasing rents. Result landlords stop renting property altogether . In liberal lefty Ireland you either have perfect accommodation or no accommodation. U couldn’t make it up.

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The living arrangements in Rising Damp would be outlawed now. If the landlord lives at the premises, then they should permit rooms to be let without all the regulations of fire doors, yearly electrical and gas checks, fire sprinklers, etc etc

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It was outlawed to the detriment of providing people with affordable accommodation. All these fancy pants regs aren’t for free and increase costs which have to be passed on.

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6.27: Miss, no brilliant quotes from learned people should stop us from helping anyone in need. It’s the gospel imperative – to always look beyond our own needs, family and community and respind with compassion to our suffering neighbour. As Jesus demonstrated, our NEIGHBOUR is anyone who is in need, even if that be in darkest Africa, Venezuela or Dublin or your town where you live!!

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6.45 I should add that the bulk of the UN millions will inevitably be spent on weapons or will rest in Swiss bank accounts!

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6.45 Give me one example from the NT where Jesus gives money as a charitable good work?

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2:06 Fr Jerry Carey exercised a lot of “control” at St Joseph’s Well in the derelict grounds of Our Lady’s Psychiatric Hospital, not! Bet the arrogant prick regrets his trip to Galway. Good riddance.

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I was wondering how we Catholics would be blamed for this horrible social evil? I personally own 10 houses and rent them all. All of my houses but 1 will be left to the diocese here in Belfast. Being a landlord is hard and it is a responsibility.

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Why don’t you leave/sell all your houses to young couples instead of to the RCC Cabal who will end up selling them to pay off all the victims of clergy abuse?

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Given that the information came from Bill M., unless Pat is able to independently verify the information, I rather doubt we will hear of it again.

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Congratulations to the four Dominicans who took perpetual vows in a ceremony in Dublin earlier this month. The former lawyer, two doctors and a physicist are all preparing for priestly ordination. Bishop Deenihan has just ordained two new OPs and there’s a bumper crop of novices as well. It just goes to show that orthodox religious life attracts; the Irish Reds, SJs, CPs etc don’t have even one novice between them.

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Perhaps the Mulvihill fella can give the students and the rest of us a few tips on how to scam other people into paying for confortable accommodation.

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5.28: Pat: now you must disbar Bill from your blog. He abused your generosity. His behaviour on this blog for some time was to have one outcome only, the present state of psychological meltdown. He thrives on conflict and confrontation. He should now keep quiet. His life style and reality now are his choices aline. He has proved his total untrustworthiness.

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I think it’s a good idea to block 🚫 Bill.

Whatever his mental health condition, it probably doesn’t help him to be posting regularly on the blog. His behaviour is typical of an internet troll and any comments about him here only serves to fuel his twisted ‘me against the world’ fantasy.

I imagine most intelligent contributors to the blog will recognise that it’s possible for some people to have a serious mental health problems but still have awareness of and control over their bad behaviour. My understanding of Bill, is that he is mentally unstable but aware of the damage he is doing in his words and deeds.

Goodbye Bill, take care and God bless. Get well soon.

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I agree.

Bill is aware of the hurt and uses every little thing you tell him to use against you.

He has told me things I will never tell anyone.

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How can we sure of that , even with pillow talk with your husband. You know I’m right, that prick never violated , with me or other supposed victims, you have though …..

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BILL MULVIHILL AND MONEY
It is best not to give or lend any money to Bill. He asks for loans with a promise to repay within days but does not repay.
Two weeks ago he borrowed £ 400 from me telling me he had nowhere to stay
on three nights. I was fooled. And all the while he was buying luxury cashmere scarves etc at € 400 a pop.
He also meets friends for dinner and runs up big food and drink bills and expects his friends to pay ALL the time.
His recent visit to me cost me hundreds also. – plus the grief afterwards.
If Bill were a man of honour he would pay back what he has borrowed

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Sounds like Bipolar disorder. The man needs a good psychiatrist and some meds. Unfortunately the mania lasts as long as it lasts and he won’t seek help until its too late.

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I’m afraid I’m still a fool for a sob story 😞
I kinda feel it counteracts the temptation to cynicism.

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Pat is not a fool, nor is he convincing anyone with half a brain with this story ,…or that 400 euro

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7.15: Bills liaisons will all be short lived. Sadly. He will first have to have a huge transformation in his life before any true relationship. It’s sad that in so short a space of time he could almost disintegrate. I hope his family may be helpful or that God will lead him to someone or some place for his own protection and well being.

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@5.28 pm Bishop Pat
Well Bill will no doubt be raging that you have blocked him but it really is all for the best. I’m afraid he will have to hit rock bottom before he can take small steps to move forward again.

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Pat, your friend Bill is very manipulative and sadly very unwell. Don’t enable him by giving him money because he needs to fall flat on his face to get well. As long as he is receiving money from you and others he will get progressively worse. Tough love is the only way…. I hope he can turn his life around.Behind all this bad behaviour is a lot of pain and hurt which needs to be addressed..🙏

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Magda…

If your priests are better than ours…

Statistically speaking how many Irish have taken in Ukrainians, how many polish have taken n Ukrainians ?

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Thomas I apologize , for my comments last night , I saw the news today. Shame people don’t listen otherwise, keep up the good fight and i sincerely apologize for challenging you. I didn’t realize.
Big respect
Yvonne

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This isn’t pats fight, it’s mine, my methods are unorthodox but there’s always method to my madness.

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As I said ‘nobodys’ feelings come before my own or priorotised before me, I made the mistake last year and looking to everyone else.
My bad !
I won’t be that stupid again, if I need to do something , it’s on me. No one else.

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