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DIARMUID MARTIN RADIO INTERVIEW OF 1 ST OCTOBER 2022.

https://www.rte.ie/radio/podcasts/22152044-former-archbishop-diarmuid-martin/

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DIARMUID MARTIN came out of retirement last weekend to do a radio interview.

It’s 30 minutes long and a pleasant enough listen.

He was certainly responsible for bringing THE MAYNOOTH SUMMER OF LOVE 2016 to an abrupt end.

And that infuriated his fellow Irish bishops.

There’s a certain ” humanity” about DM that I’ve always liked.

But of course he is a trained and experienced church politician and diplomat.

Does he wear a mask?

Remember Mullie used to tell stories of DM in Rome and Florence?

We’re they figments of Mullie’s imagination?

Or was there truth to them?

What do readers think of the interview?

THE HOUSE THAT DM RENOVATED FOR HIS RETIRRMENT

This is one of the three curates houses that DM is living in.

Looks very good to me.

LARNE’S “MOTHER TERESA” 😀

223 replies on “DIARMUID MARTIN RADIO INTERVIEW OF 1 ST OCTOBER 2022.”

I think he’s probably like his brother, an atheist at heart. In fairness as well, a master career politican an diplomat. Always very careful never to blame the Vatican or previous Popes for anything. Makes a pleasant change to have an archbishop of Dublin that is a Catholic.

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Pat, I thought it was a good interview. I listened to it with sadness because, while DM was superb re: clerical abuse scandals, he lacked any real empathy for priests. I believe his heart was always in Rome but came to Dublin reluctantly. There is a sadness of emptiness and loss in his voice. He always seemed to find favour with the press and handled them very professionally and openly. Other Bishops vould have learned much from him. I wouldn’t believe anything from “Mullie” ever, ever. I wish DM peace, health and God’s blessings.

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10.48
Did I read you correctly? Did you say that Diarmuid Martin lacked empathy for priests?
I’m sure I misread you, because no honest person would even think that a Catholic priest (any Catholic priest) had empathy for anyone but his self-serving self. It’s a requirement of the job.

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Why would the fellow Bishops of Diarmuid Martin not approve of him disbanding the Maynooth Summer of Love? Are you saying they approved? What the hell?

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8:08 that’s what they are directed by the Vatican to do, it’s all about wearing out the victims who will eventually give up or die waiting for resolution, clergy are replaced, new Popes appointed, church wealth managed and increased by the influential networks of carefully selected lay professionals that are replacing clergy in countries like Ireland where new vocations are almost non existent due to well publicised scandals and unresolved abuses exposed in Irish Catholic Church in recent decades.

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9:29
‘Go therefore make a fortune in my name…’
They will have wealth managed and increased by the influential networks of carefully selected lay professionals but very few people in the pews.
Clericalism is destroying the church from within. Carefully selected lay professionals will likely replicate the clerical caste- made in the image of the clerical cabal. It’s a pity bishops couldn’t practice what they preach by being Christian towards victims/survivors.

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11.30 Archbishop Eamon Martin would not have given Fr William Mulvihill a red cent if Fr Mulvihill hasn’t had something on the Irish Catholic Church. If Bill had been in a stronger place mentally and had had a more aggressive lawyer, he’d have been entitled to a much higher payout.

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9.25: BM got more than he deserved. He engaged himself with an inner raging battle of angst, vengeance, regrets, daemons of all sorts and sexual confusion that he became a danger to himself and others. He did not need a stronger lawyer to exact more from Archbishop Martin. Mulvihill made an utter fool of himself and any “evidence” – if such exists – to date is fancifully and fanatically manufactured, he would not be accepted as trustworthy or reliable in any court. His flights of fantasy are so bizarre, they’d call for a psychiatrist!! We know too from Pat and others that Bill has the DNA of a very dysfunctional, manipulative and pathological personality. He’s not beyond redemption. He just needs to own his present irrationalities and exorcise the indwelling daemons. For now, we must hope he finds an opening to new life.

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He resigned. He wasn’t “entitled” to anything. A lay person who left voluntarily wouldn’t get a red cent.

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12.47 there was a “reason” he was given any payment at all. They would not have given him anything if that were a legal option. If he’d had a more aggressive solicitor, Bill would have received a lot more.

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I don’t think Bill’s solicitor could be described as non aggressive 🤔 He is in court at the moment charged with assaulting another solicitor.

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7:09 that type of physical aggression is a complete waste of time & energy, it’s a solicitor with the temerity to apply an aggressive application of the law that Bill needed. A fisticuffs solicitor is no use & hopefully he’ll be struck off, maybe Bill has a case against him! Too many dodgy lawyers about these days, mishandling clients money etc., forging paperwork to buy up property portfolios etc., see media reports.

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I second that sentiment. BM played up his knowledge in the hope of scare mongering his ex colleagues. He is an ex cleric but once a priest you are always a priest.

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Pat, what did the original solicitor do to provoke they kind of reaction..
Some handle some intellectually others handle others with fear…
Either or works in the right environment under the right circumstance…
People have a need to be liked to much….

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The rumours certainly have truth in them. Billy did not make them up – Taylor shared them in confidence with him as “a friend”. Taylor and Martin travelled together. Billy shared those private stories when they fell out.
Does this story sound familiar to you Pat? Billy did it to you too. He has been doing it to people for years.

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When you’re a poor kid from a poor family, religion counts for a lot
And when a priest pays attention to you it’s a big deal.
Phil Saviano – Rest in peace

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Yes, RIP, Phil.
He did more than most in The States to help kids raped by priests, and raped again, emotionally, by bloated bishops who protected those criminals from the Law, thus enabling them to rape even more kids.

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1.32 Catholic Church spends untold millions worldwide covering up in case truth comes out but actually pay out very little comparatively to the actual victims, survivors or their families.

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Lawyers argue for more jail time in sentencing submissions for Fr Ridsdale.
This priest refused to read victim impact statements. He taunted his victims by calling them liars and told them that no one would believe them. He also told them “it’s your fault”.

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Yup! That’s the calibre of personnel Roman Catholic priesthood attracts.
Did you know that Jesus himself instituted this priesthood? It’s true. Ask any priest.😅

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9:54 And it gets better! Each priest is himself another Christ! At least that’s what my priest boyfriend has tattooed across his bum.

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Said last week that it had secretly sanctioned Nobel Peace Prize winning Bishop Carlos Ximenes Belo, the revered independence hero of East Timor in 2020.
Dutch magazine De Groen Amsterdammer exposed the Belo scandal by quoting two of his alleged victims but the brief statement issued by the Vatican didn’t reveal what church officials might have known before 2019.

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Schools and hospitals and social work settings is where you will find clerics in the external public workplace.

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All teachers are bullies, what kind of person wants to spend their entire life in a damn school either as a child and then on to their job?

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Sure you have a cheek Fr Anon, your career type is known to attract the highest amount of fiddlers!

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Ex priest and author Brian Devlin outlines his experiences in his book Cardinal Sin on being groomed by Keith O Brien who was elevated to Archbishop by Pope John Paul II despite allegations.

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2:11 those who cover up the truth about what goes on inside the seminaries are well rewarded and progressed to ordination although they usually “blow it” and publicly fuck up typically within 5 or 10 years but if at all possible Bishops find a way to keep them in ministry or worst case scenario these Bishops pets who know where the bodies are buried are still working behind the scenes and being protected by the church.

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They all wear masks. They all know what they keep silent on. 2016 merely showed the limits of tolerance makes them shake…. it was a big game of “chicken” and DM shook first and lost.

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7:43 true & don’t forget that no dodgy clergyman is an island, they survive in ministry aided by their influential lay cohorts and backstabbing self interested sheep with agendas.

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5:20 the deliberately misleading interview that Fr Ger Fitzgerald gave to the Irish Independent newspaper as directed by the Irish Catholic media office amounts to perjury?

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9:24 perjury!! That’s nothing in an organisation with decades of unresolved priest paedophile cases & forgery of wills of old people, hell whats telling lies to the media in comparison.

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@8.17
With the exception of those who survive on out old age pension and no longer take any dues or stipends. As for self interested sheep – I stand apart now as a Goat.

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In some alternate reality I’m sure the word genius actually means some odd auld wrinkled Queen without any grip on reality.

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7:36 his alleged illness will be what the church will be relying on to discredit him when he participates as a witness in outstanding matters from his time inside the church system. That’s why they find it so important to continually brand and label anyone who speaks the truth about them as mentally ill.

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8:51. Bill and others should be extremely careful, nothing more dangerous than teams of cornered rats with so much to lose.

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I am a former cleric. I did ten years and left to be with my now civil partner- your former colleagues shun you out of fear of you going rogue and sharing their secrets. There’s so much I could reveal about priests in seminary roles, bishops’ conference, etc. I am sure it won’t be long until one of them is nominated as a bishop.

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7:50 in my case I found that they did more than simply shun me, they spread false rumours to build a fake profile of me to ensure I might be discredited if I ever did blow the whistle on them. They have done the same to others.

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Me too. That’s how they operate. 9.32 am when you’ve finally broken free, established yourself in life, do you think you would really bother revealing who was shagging who? What would the purpose be? They would just undermine you and your achievements.

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That’s why you have to walk away. But it is delicious reading how some of them later eventually become unstuck and caught up in scandal.

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9.54 the shagging is only the nuisance tip of iceberg that risks revealing all the other business. After all church is first and foremost a business & Bishops and their teams are wheeler dealers these days managing & maximising the potential of all their property assets.

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‘Former’ cleric but still abide by the clerical code of omerta.
Thank you for confirming exactly the kind of men drawn to priesthood – individuals as well as the system are the problem.

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DM,KOB, take any bishop or cardinal – they all have been and are complicit in the continuation of a clerical system, hierarchy and culture that has clearly been shown to be toxic, dysfunctional and dangerous. So, no matter how reasonable they might sound, remember that they are part and parcel of the problem that inflicts our Church. Their unwillingness to address the problems is at best careless and at worst sinful. For they do know what the problems are, and they do know what the solutions are. But they just are too scared, too comfortable and too careless to do anything about it. For that they will answer before the judgement seat, if there is one ! In the meantime, damage continues to be done. Until such time as we have truly had enough, and like the Ayatollaha’s in Iran and the autocratic oligarchs and tyrants in Russia, their end will come when the people rise up. There is a revolutionary inevitability about that. I would be worried, if I was in their position.

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“The church that I love with all my heart is once again taking a battering. This goes further than just the institution of Maynooth College. This strikes again right to the heart of the church in Ireland,” the Limerick priest said.
“In my time this was not the case. No parties were had and there were no drinks in rooms. This simply did not happen during my years,” Fr Fitzgerald said.
https://gcn.ie/former-maynooth-priest-denies-claims-gay-culture/

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Why does Martin ‘love’ the Church? It’s a stinking harlot.

What does Martin mean? Does he love corruption? Or does he just have a deluded, infantilised notion of Church? I suspect the latter.

Most Catholics are like Martin: they cling on to disproven notions of Church, because they are too afraid, too cowardly, to face the honest reality of that evil, parasitical institution.

Folks, Father Christmas doesn’t exist. Grow up.

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8:50 their big fat bank accounts still exist built with blood money of slave labour, baby trafficking, courtesy of government contract payments for running mother & baby homes etc., and they intend to keep it that way. The church is a business. Fact.

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In my time in Maynooth I saw no parties or drinks in the rooms nor any gay orgies and this was the 2000’s. Maybe I was too straight to notice 🤔 or my classmates didn’t find me attractive 🤔 Either way I saw nothing untoward

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10.28 Maynooth was great craic, win several bets on who’d bag a seminarian for the night! Looking back it’s probably not a great idea to have the seminary students and lay students in same university.

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10.28 You say you saw nothing untoward but what about your own untoward actions? Hypocrite.

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Don’t worry, 10:28, we can all picture you clearly. I’m sure your mother thinks the right girl would find you attractive.

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When I was a seminarian scores of priests were starting to start arrangements in place and I am sure they are still in place to this day.

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People are afraid (or loath) to discuss mental ill-health probably because they are afraid of contracting it themselves. It’s the illness that dare not speak its name.
Mental ill-health is difficult enough in itself, but the stigma that still surrounds it, along with the ridicule it can easily invite, are additional burdens that must be borne by sufferers.

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You can’t catch mental illness in the way you catch a cold, but a previously well person can get depressed if caring for or living with a person with mental illness.

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1.29 GB News is an excellent news source for freedom loving patriots.
Caroline Farrow’s situation is relevant to this blog, as Bishop Pat celebrates journalistic freedom on this blog just like she used to. If she can be arrested for expressing her opinions then so can Bishop Pat. It’s a chilling state of affairs.

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Parishioners are aware of allegations of financial discrepancies in Galway diocese that coincided with Fr Cunninghams “sabbatical”.

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Jailed ex Garda Superintendent now linked with others in force to The Monk Hutch Gangsays:

In the meantime, ex Sinn Fein councillor Jonathan Dowdall enters witness protection programme as he turns Irish State Government witness in this related case including the Regency Hotel shooting.

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Dr Leo Varadkar has rejected suggestions that proof of domestic abuse should be included in upcoming legislation to allow paid leave. He confirmed that legislation is being worked on by Minister for Children, Roderic O’Gorman. Louise O Reilly TD, has stated that advocacy groups are “absolutely clear, they couldn’t be clearer” that “we cannot ask” for proof of abuse. Leo Varadkar stated “I don’t really see how you could produce proof of abuse or coercive control in particular which is quite hard to prove”.

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I thought it quite a self serving interview, Pat. Why would an ex archbishop go on a show to clap himself on the back like that? What is that about? Where was the repentance? Does he actually believe his own spin?

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It was hardly a searching interview.

I found Brendan O’Connor’s style here to border on the obsequieous. Echoes of ‘Holy Ireland’.

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Yes, Brendan seemed in awe. But how does a catholic bishop get away with praising rte today. The mind boggles.

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I agree. Said a lot. Said nothing. I’ve been doing my own shopping and cooking g for 45 years +

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That’s good.

In the past (likely even presently), priests had a servant (sorry: I meant ‘housekeeper’) to fetch and carry for them. Bone idle, useless bastardos.

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Why was D. Martin invited for interview in the first place? He’s hardly a celebrity. So, what’s so special about him. Could it just have been that … he’s a former Catholic prelate?
Echoes of ‘Holy Ireland’ indeed.

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I found the cooking comment bizarre. It’s tone deaf. Most people cook and clean for themselves, it is a basic life skill yet he says it like it’s an achievement for someone of his standing. It’s like he is saying “I am special but I cook for myself so I am really just like all of you.”
He has been saying a lot and saying nothing for years. If you notice, he actually likes to control the interviewer and speaks about what he wants to speak about. He interrupts the interviewer when he tries to ask a question and gives sound bites he knows will land, thus sidestepping the interviewer’s real questions. It’s all a game.

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Agreed, 12.04. It’s as though Martin were expecting praise, or some such recognition, for the ultimate task of cooking and cleaning for himself. The mind boggles at such a self-entitled, precious attitude.
I swear to God most of these men are self-infantilised. Brendan O’Connor should have had the wit to move the conversation on to more adult themes. I was waiting for O’connor to ask Martin: ‘And do you wipe your own arse as well?’

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D. Martin expresses concern over requesting celibacy, ‘for the sake of the kingdom’, from a young candidate for the diaconate. But the candidate’s aptitude for such a commitment shouldn’t be DM’s only concern. There is no evidence that Jesus requested celibacy of any of his followers. The passage in Matthew’s gospel that appears to endorse celibacy for Jesus’ disciples actually does no such thing, but it has been interpreted in this way to justify the imposition of celibcacy on priests in the 11th or 12th century.
The Devil wasn’t the only one to misuse Scripture for his own purposes: the Catholic Church has been doing so literally for centuries.
Celibacy clearly doesn’t work, because Richard Sipe’s evidence shows that at least half of priests are sexually active at any particular time.
Thomas Doyle stated that during his time as a military chaplain, he worked alongside married chaplains and considered their ministries every bit as effective as his celibate one.

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Yeah it’s funny isn’t it how at the reformation people started reading the bible for themselves, seeking to understand it under the guidance of the holy spirit and not one of their interpretations bears too much resemblance to Roman Catholicism.
I think the original Jesus movement which wrote and canonised the new testament was hijacked and turned into something different.

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Good points.
Isn’t it equally funny that the Catholic Church considers individual interpretation of Scripture as relativistic, while it’s own by other individuals is held as divinely inspired?
That one’s my favourite party-piece.

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12:48 Yes that’s a good one. I like the one where they go around saying how their church is divinely founded but others are founded by humans. Until they get caught out in kiddy fiddling when suddenly they drop the divine claims and start pointing out the other, supposedly inferior, churches also have the problem. Then when that doesn’t wash they start saying how most abuse happens in the family.
Frantically keen on the family, they are.

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4.38
Yes, I noticed that, too, their keeness on the family. So keen that they morally ‘encouraged’ Catholic couples to pack as many new-born kids into the woman’s fertile period as humanly possible. The more the frickin’ merrier! After all, it helps God’s family, the Church, to grow. Besides, what’s a domestic family if it hasn’t at least six kids sleeping in one bed for human warmth and comfort? Eh?
Postpartum depression? Small beer! But cornucopic nectar if offered for that other family, souls in Purgatory.
And it wasn’t an issue for the Church either that mummy was often physically and mentally worn out long before she was forty. She was a martyr for the family, a ‘white’ martyr. And where did these white martys go after (usually) premature death? Why, were the red ones went, silly. To Heaven!
Nor was it much issue for the Church if mummy died in child birth. Sure, wasn’t it all for the family? And wouldn’t daddy, and the kids, have mummy in Heaven to pray for them? Dry your eyes. And rejoice!
Family is EVERYTHING to the Church, especially if it has plenty of little boys to tutor in the ways the world. (And Father’s little idiosyncracies.)
Yes, the Church and family fit perfectly together like … like Father, and wee Johnnie, on a camping weekend. All alone.

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5:55, grotesque isn’t it.
My late wife had a physical disability that meant she couldn’t carry children so as soon as we got married she went on the pill and we were at it like rabbits. I had a job with a lot of flexibility then and I’d go home for another go in the day as well. She’d always been shy and lacked confidence because of her disability but her dad commented that married life was suiting her because she was glowing. It was the sex! And if she hadn’t been able to go on the pill the church would have messed that up and she’d have been miserable.

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I think that man went through the mill, solicitor, counselling, free legal aid, asking priests to help for years. Nothing helped. I don’t think he would be able to talk about it again, such is the hurt and the sense of betrayal.

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Pat, it was painful to hear the archbishop play the fact that he had chosen a simple house in poor stoneybatter to live. I knew a man who worked for Martin, but when he stood up for what was right and was abused for it, the archbishop allowed his livelihood to be destroyed and made him homeless, and he’s still homeless to this day.

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Speaking of humble accommodation, Archbitch Martin spoke of the many rooms in his former prelatial Dublin palace. Said he lived in only two of them. So, here’s the begging question: are Ukrainian refugees occupying all the others?

A fair point, like. 🤔

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I wonder what Martin’s pension is (courtesy of the sheep). I’m betting he won’t be counting the pennies this winter.

And that simple house he acquired, I’m betting it isn’t a council house.

God bless the Sheep. 🐑

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Bill Mulvihill’s attempt to assassinate the character of the Archbishop failed spectacularly. Bill is simply not reliable. There’s a lot of talk on this blog about Bill having the inside scoop and knowing where the bodies are buried and that may well be the case. But if Bill had anything serious – and anyone would be willing to listen – he would have gotten a much bigger payout than he did. Bill was lucky to get what he got and that was sympathy, not a payoff. Bill’s credibility is shot by his antics both on and off this blog.
(1) Taking loans and not paying back
(2) Living in a tent while buying 400 euro scarves
(3) Expecting friends to pay big restaurant bills – for meals he organized
(4) Talking out his hole about Putin, Israel etc
(5) Scattergun accusations on this blog with no evidence
(6) Traumatizing parishoners by saying they are to blame for family suicides.
In short if there was Bill Mulvihill Airlines you wouldnt get on the plane. He has no credibility and trying to ruin the Archbishop was very cheap indeed. And if the Archbishop sowed his wild oats in Italy, so what?

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So what? I’ll tell you what’s – what: if Martin did sow his wild oats in Italy with a rent boy, then he’s a liar for denying it.

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@12.36 pm. Todd
True no one will believe Bill Mulvihill now fact or fantasy. The biggest mistake Bill made was his aggressive turn on Pat and what a mistake that has turned out to be – Bill’s downfall.

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He turned on me when I suggested he was mentally ill and needed help.

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The DSM and ICD should be seen as tentative, tertiary aids to the insight of skilled physicians, not a book to overrule them. Institutions stigmatise, then propose their inferior solution to your “inferiority”. That is why our hiding behind them looks toxic. Diagnosis with manic depression was rare and is now non existent anywhere. Doctors have been reduced by force of law to “nuisance” police. Grieving people need people in their lives and not lawyers that string them along.

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Pat that house is ancient and ugly as sin. It looks like a student house with extra garage spaces. LOTS of carpet I bet

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Ack, away on or that wi’ y’!

Martin’s house ancient and ugly? By whose standard?

You must be livin’ very well indeed to come out wi’ thon crap.

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The Archdiocese will be paying all the costs of running the house.

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Thought so. Which means Martin can keep his fat ass as warm as toast all winter long. 24/7 if he wishes, and not have to worry about filling his oil tank, again and again.

SHEEP OF IRELAND, HEAR ME: YOUR SHEPHERD’S ARE WOLVES! ALLOW THEM TO EXPLOIT YOU NO LONGER.

If Brendan O’connor were even a half-decent interviewer, he would have grilled Martin on these subjects, instead of bending an obsequious knee to him.

Sickening!

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If the archdiocese is paying all the running costs of Martin’s home, then this must include oil and electricity.
Hold on! This means that Martin’s pension is more or less just his pocket money. Christ! How much is the pension? 30,000 a year? 50,000?
MORE?!!!

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Aye, I’m sure it was (again, courtesy of the Sheep). And I’m betting no expense was spared to please the archbitch’s Italianated eye.

I wonder would the archdiocese redecorate the homes of the Dublin poor so quickly, seeing as its THEIR money that was spent doing up the archbitch’s modest urban pile.

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We get a lot of comment on this blog about the MIAs – people like Rory and PB JP Lyttle, amongst others. The ones that there is clarity about, such as those who have been convicted of a crime, perhaps in prison etc. make for a more clear cut disposal, generally meaning in this day and age that they are laicised and have to move on. Although, even this category often comes with some sort of ongoing care package from the Church. The more difficult cases are those where there is not necessarily a crime that has been committed that can be prosecuted and give some clarity, but those cases where the priest is deemed no longer fit for ministry and is put in to a prayer and penance state. This usually means that the individual is housed, paid and supported by the Church. Ad infinitum. Very few of these individuals will be able to make a clean break and make their own way in life, partly because they do not have the resources or external support to do so, but also because they are fit for pretty much nothing else other than what the seminary has trained them to do. Those ‘skills’ are often not transferrable, especially when contaminated with the clerical culture of arrogance and exceptionalism. It does not make for a very retrainable and employable character. So, they remain on the books. Increasingly there are lots of them. Where I live you can go through the priest directory and there are plenty who are c/o, or MIA, or “retired’ etc – mostly a euphemism for no longer employable and living a life of prayer and penance. I admire the one or two who have recognised their miserable situation and have struck out on their own and left behind the security of clerical life. At least they have some initiative and energy. This does not happen in any other work culture. If you are deemed unemployable in your chosen career, profession, then you are out, and you have to rely on social security or get another job. Why not with priests ? I’m sure lots of bishops would like to get these characters off their hands and their books. But, they can’t. Canon Law does not allow it, it seems, unless the guy is laicised. Being a priest is a job for life and whether you can do it or not, you will be looked after by the Church. Because you are simply a priest. Nonsense !

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Wish the two ex co-pps of Roscrea both MIA still in Roscrea would show a bit of ‘energy and initiative’ as you put it so well. Life is too good.. all the comforts of home and being looked after so well by Mother Church.. Lugs needs to get this pair of the books it causing quite the scandal! ps neither showed much energy and initiative in ministry – hardly going to start now!!

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Not just rumours. Check in with anyone familiar with with Roscrea parish. The lads made no secret of their activities.. widely known..

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1:21 in the sort of cases you describe I think the church actually has a moral duty to support these priests if they are incapable of supporting themselves outside. Otherwise the state would have to.
I can see nothing wrong with the bill being footed by those stupid enough to give money.
The answer to this is to approach priesthood as employment and have contracts so that priests can be dismissed. Treating them like employees would require appraisals and so the dead wood could be managed through the door.
Cue a barrage of abusive comments from clergy who are terrified of having to perform in a job.

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Have you ever come across a priest who presents as professional and capable, and who would be able to hold down a responsible job in the secular world ? Nope. Never. They are generally badly educated, badly formed, and of limited ability. However, the Church insists on putting them on a pedestal – all that ontological change malarkey – and give them authority, and hey presto, you have a disaster. It would be funny if it were is often criminal and abusive in so many cases.

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I love St. Teresa of Larne. Here is one up on you, my whippet Sapphire is called B.V.M when she is wrapped up for sleep with her blue fleece blanket, she ofttimes makes an apparition in my bedroom at night. LOLSxx

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William Mulvihill is the reason I stopped donating to the church and the reason why I stopped going to mass. I would suggest you all consider doing the same, Pat is so correct when he advices you all to starve them of finance.

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Julie you are the epitome of why Bill decided to leave his vocation, the man is a homosexual you sad and lonely spinster

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Fr Laughlin Cunnane is hardly any better, ranting and raving in mass about politics should not be allowed.

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Paddy McCAfferty did the same around election time in May and faced a back lash from Ballymurphy parishioners and yet that numpty in Lisbreen allowed him to continue going on about DUP and abortion at mass and the last time I was there on a Sunday there was only 5 there because of this.

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Noel will move him very soon as the finances must be in their boots after that PR disastrous move.
How many times has he been in retreats since that happened tho?

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RIP the Irish/Ukrainian freedom fighter Rory Mason who tragically was murdered by Russian forces whilst attempting to liberate Ukraine.
A massive LGBT activist he will be sorely missed by all his friends and family in Dunboyne.

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Rory was an exceptional young man who helped me in my fight to get a council house and take my husband to court.

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Bishop Treanor is never out of Brussels so why did he get the post here? Turns a blind eye at all his lothsarios also – remember the motto – “just don’t get caught”

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My faithful companion Rex died today- only 47 in dog years which really is far too young and has left me devastted x

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Pat would you concentrate on serious issues affecting people instead of damn dogs dying – dying is part of living

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Diarmuid Martin lives in a mansion in retirement and I will not even make it to that age.
I am a single mother of 5, I work full time as teacher and I’m struggling to pay a mortgage and provide food each month.
Priests have it far too easy in life and they should all make vows of poverty so they can be like real citizens.

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Recently I complained about my priest and because of that my own sisters started calling me Mad Maria. I’m devastated that my family has turned on me cos i still think i was right.

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St. Theresa of Larne pray for us. I hve always had great devotion to st theresa pat but didn’t know about her connection with Larne xxx

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I was in the DC the other day when that terrible thing happened and I’ve been traumatised ever since. Everyone is going on about karma but honestly it really spoiled a good evening and we had a carvery booked

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Hello Bishop Pat. I am flying out to Antigua tomorrow so I’m keeping a clear head for it. Fell and broke a finger outside Union Street and it’s scared me. I don’t know much about Bishop Martin but I trust your instinct and opinions. Will of course be following the blog avidly. Have a nice evening you all.

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If you’re gay I would stay away from that place I was beat up for telling a guy he was cute in the shopping mall

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You shouldn’t be trying it on with young men in supermarkets anywhere. What did you expect?

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Straight men who are not gay, some don’t like being hit on by gays and some gays I know crack on to everything. Some take great offense too it.

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I was not trying it on with him I was just merely saying he was cute and asked him out for a drink, I do not find black men attractive and that’s not racism – it’s choice and sexual preference.

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You sound like great craic mate. I be in the PD most nights if you fancy a pint just give me a shout son 🍺

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Eamon, I don’t know but everytime I see you give an opinion with a glass of wine , especially one you gave last week. You little legend yeah 😂👍

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Pat where you in M&S last week I should have said hello sorry but my twins were playing up and I was ready to maul them, you are looking well.

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Outrageous. You might find this hard to believe but I am a priest and I couldn’t even shop in M and S. Luckily i go over to the school each day after the kids have had their lunch and i usually get something nice out of the school dinners

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I love m&S in sprucefield. It’s great to go in at night about 8.30 and get all the nice things with the yellow labels.

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Dear Bishop Monahan,
My child was taken yesterday, without my permission or foreknowledge, to the local Parish Church where he was given a ‘sales pitch’ about First Communion etc. by the PP who will be assisted by another priest who was responsible for formation at Maynooth and who is a close friend of your deviant priest, Fr Fitzgerald.
My other child, who has special needs and is extremely sensitive, sensed “something was off” (her words) and refused to go inside the church.
I have notified the teachers today that due to the emotional & financial abuse I experienced at the hands of the offending Killaloe priest, my children WILL NOT be placed on the sacrificial RCC altar and are hereby withdrawn from preparation for First Communion/Reconciliation. My children may be ostracised for not taking part, but at least I have the satisfaction of knowing that I have saved them from being led as sheep to the slaughterhouse. Further to this, I shall be sending you by post my children’s FRAUDULENT RC Baptism certificate, signed by a certain Rev. Fitzgerald, which isn’t worth the paper it is written on.
Mind those precious children in 2nd class; believe you me, I will be keeping a very close eye on what is going on in the Parish.

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I know who Ger had the sexual encounter with (male) and it was on more than one occasion. I will gladly offer the name of this person but would like to know how it would benefit me.

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Your a liar, if you really wanted revenge and could offer info to disgrace or defame him, you wouldn’t waste an opportunity,yours suspicions have to Merritt. I have known plenty of make who have had s gay experience who are straight. He’s is not gay despite he’s experimental ways , just because he didn’t want to shag you, doesn’t make him gay.

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7.39 I believe what you are saying is true. He has always denied it, but then again, he is very liberal with the truth.

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8.07 Darling, calm down. You are jumping to conclusions. I did not make the comment at 6.18.

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I am sorry that you have suffered abuse from a priest but please do not insult all other Catholic mothers leading their children as you say like “sheep to the slaughterhouse”. Tell the school they are not to receive religious education and have them exempt or leave and go yo a Church of Ireland or Educate together school. If you feel there is a safeguarding issue with the priest who was with the children, report it immediately to the safeguarding officer of the school.

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You don’t claim to make alot of comments. People aren’t as stupid as you think ..

I don’t need to calm down just because someone won’t sleep with you doesn’t automatically mean they are gay , when they turn you down. when it’s notoriously known he’s had apparently gay and straight experiences with everyone except you, you should keep stumpt on that on. Stop making excuses. Face facts.

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6.40 As one mother to another: After everything you read on this blog, does it not frighten you to entrust your children to a RC priest? The majority of these priests are living double lives, as is well documented on this blog. I have nothing against the school. It is a very good school.

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Whether this man is with men and women , either/or or both and possibly quite true ….
that particular commenter is making excuses as to why he didn’t want to sleep with her. That he ‘MUST’ be gay , when it’s apaoremtly well know he sleeps with both ..There’s a difference.

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7.44 I did not write that comment and I could care less if the priest is gay, straight, or gender neutral. You are only looking for a fight. You must be bored 🤣

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You wrote the response , you wrote a response to it though, and I responded…

I can count on both hands the amount of times you have responded to commenters and it’s wrong .

Except I’m not wrong!

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9.24 you care what he does from one day to the next personally and professionally your watching like a hawk …do thats a lie

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Canon Todd your has, not against you , with Carroll against Carroll, I acknowledge I smell a rat and licking ass…
Funny!

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He must have been sure he spoke about it in an interview with the Irish news. I will look for the article and forward you it.

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Saw Keenan and Delia at the airport in Dublin earlier and he is actually looking great. Best thing for him was to get out of that hell hole in Poleglass

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Remember the good old days when you could trust a priest and leave him his dinner at the front door.
You can never get in contact with ours and his Secretary works part time, I rang once and she answered and said she was too busy to deal with the query I had.

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After long days in work in a nursery sometimes I find a nice walk in the mountain and a read of this blog is all I need to unwind, thank you Pat.

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My brother died of a drug overdose and it’s becoming a huge problem in belfast with heroin so readily available.

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I find it hilarious that you treat confession with the utmost discretion yet with your postion not every one gives you confession through a box ,most done through a phone. You even said would protect a murderer in confession if one did, or raise a red flag discreetly to avoid confession violation, yet you have sold bill down the road faster than a tramp to chips. Your profession has fuck all to do with this vendetta of yours . Stop using people issues because your a simply a knob!
Won’t be approved I wonder. Truth hurts. No point saying people don’t accept their mental health conditions etc… When it’s you that can’t accept certain opinions or realities regarding yourself.

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In response to Greggy earlier who is trying to deal with the perennial difficulty of having awkward relatives- my way has simply been to always delete them from my life. You don’t need those toxic influences in your life and they’re better off out of the picture.

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My wifi is playing up something shocking don’t know if you are receiving multiple messages all the same or any at all but I’m sorry if you are

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No one has asked Dermo about the accountability of the sale of Clonlifffe. The redundancies and more to come. The waste of money. Throwing money at the new Curia offices in Aegean Quay where I understand staff are unhappy. Parishes are pastorally dead. COVID has destroyed the congregations who are not back. O Connor could have asked him about this. Farrell is invisible.

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