ALPHONSUS CULLINAN is not a normal human being or Christian believer.
He is an extremist.
He always needs to go to the extremes.
Nothing wrong with having a Good Friday cross procession.
The two archbishops of Dublin did one.
They walked together with a congregation from the RCC Pro Cathedral to the Church of Ireland Cathedral.
No hysterics! No bare feet!
And those accompanying them were of all ages.
In Phonsies case, he marched with teenagers in uniform.
The Blue Army? The Scouts?
Or a Phonsie Youth Movement?
BISHOP PAT BUCKLEY 
256 replies on “IS PHONSIE THE “BARE” A RELIGIOUS FANATIC – A CATHOLIC “SUICIDE BOMBER”?”
Our Lord would have walked barefoot. The priest acts “in persona Christi”.
Whether you like it or not, this man is a Priest and Bishop. If you don’t like it, change the channel.
It’s better than some of the other tripe that goes on – youth stations, kids stations, kids Masses. Trying to be hip and cool – the only hip thing they need is a hip replacement.
The Parish I live in had a great Easter. Lots of people young and old attended the solemn Liturgies and came to confession. No trying to be cool, just the Masses/Liturgies as they should be celebrated.
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Capital P and B for Priest and Bishop. Telling.
Jesus isn’t your Lord.
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He’s not yours if you are reading this blog.
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9:29 If that’s the case, why are YOU reading this blog, Fathers & Co?
Trying to find yourselves are ya?!! 🤣
Top Tip: Practice what you preach.
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8:47 Plenty other words beginning with P and B that the general public now associate with Priest and Bishop.
Your tone confirms you wouldn’t approve of any of them.
The TRUTH will set you free.
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8.47: A very crap response to a good comnent by 9.05pm.
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10:16 I forgive you.
(Obviously scored a bullseye though)
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9:29 OWNS GOD! 🤣
Seriously, the sheer arrogance!!
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11:15 demonstrating that RCs think the phrase ‘my Lord’ means you think you own God. Did you mean to give away RC ownership aspirations?
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11:15 In a back pocket brown envelope.
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You show great disdain for children. So, too, did the priests who abused them.
Are you a priest?
(BTW, learn the rule for capitalization. It doesn’t depend on a person’s social status.)
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9:33. Cop on!
Social status and wealth accumulation is what the RCC has always been about.
Anytime, anywhere, anyplace will do.
Open your eyes. 👁
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Actually there is only one liturgical situation where the priest acts in persona Christi and this isn’t it.
Ignorant as well as idolatrous.
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9.05, the priest acts in the person of Christ? When did Jesus rape children and cover it up
Fool.
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He didn’t. But priests lured by Satan into evil deeds did such things.
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So priests had no hand act or part in these evil deeds. Blame Satan.
What about their bishops? Had they no choices other than to cover up these evil deeds.Therefore is it reasonable to suggest Satan is ruling RCC?
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Barefoot Phonsie, Waterford & Lismore
&
Bareback Purcell, Killaloe
&
???????????????????????
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8:44 You need another eye or second opinion.
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Bare feet in any public setting especially walking along the road is sole destroying. Sure ya could pick up anything. Health n Safety y’know
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HOW-HI FLY
Long time no see Hi. How’s herself. Mums the word.
Begorra be Janey and be the hokey but what the heck is going on at all.
The sockless wonder yogi bear is at it again or so it seems.
Sur I thought every day is a sockless day not a photo op.
That fella reminds me of pio xii in Fuhrer’s day when there was no end of
tick tack toeing to beat the band. Sur they’ll never cop on fly.
May the Daddy of All Bless us…
Bye by Hi Fly…
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Archbishop Couve de Murville always removed his shoes to creep to the cross on Good Friday. I always marvelled at his green and gold filo di Scozia socks. He was top drawer.
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Years ago, I remember many priests and bishops creeping in bare feet to venerate the Cross on Good Friday: an act of humility sadly lacking these days. Christ had bare feet, did he not, when he went to the cross?
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Reply to; Anonymoussays:
Apr 9, 2023 at 9:32 pm
Far from top drawer, he was a complicit sexual predator enabler, who cover up the crimes of sexually abusive Roman Catholic sexual predator priests in Brum.
He was the pits, especially, for Roman Catholic children in Birmingham Roman Catholic Archdioceses.
He was no good, thankfully it’s only his socks you admired, it would be shameful of you to admire that bloody old reprobate.
“Good riddance to bad rubbish.”
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Those youngsters are foreigners. Polish, perhaps.
Phonsie has big fat feet. Hope there was no dog poo in his path.
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10:29 Eastern Europe and Africa are where proselytising Bishops such as Bishop Phonsie Cullinan are seeking fresh blood.
The enormous impact of decades of unresolved abuse cases in Ireland along with new and emerging scandals usually with a sexual or financial twist has made recruitment for new vocations almost impossible.
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The fresh blood of new migrants into Ireland is an exciting prospect.
God is good.
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Even in Poland mass attendance is plummeting as the revelations of abuse and criminal cover up come out. Strange, I wonder if they’re blaming Vatican 2. 😂
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Ah, now! Come on, 10.29! Had there been dog s**t in Phonsie’s path, he’d heroically have stepped right in it, as a mark of humility and self mortification, AND as a splendid example of Christlikeness to those impressionable boys.
Christ! What are they teaching the young?
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12:25 And made sure the camera caught that moment and issued a press release saying the dog in question belongs to Bishop Pat Buckley.
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Or if Phonsie was to step on bits of glass Pat Buckley’s to blame; the jam jars were once used by Silverstream who are now running at a financial loss partly due to Pat Buckley.
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So no need for a poop scoop for our Phonsie.
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1:17. Phonsie looks scary
Poor dog would be afraid to drop anything
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What is your problem with bare feet Pat? Archbishop Martin always venerates the Cross on Good Friday in his bare feet. I think it adds some humility to the occasion but you would rather take something else from that gesture. I think it says more about you than them.
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You think it adds some humility to the occasion? For a priest to walk barefoot while everyone else is in footwear?
Spell ‘humility’. No, it isn’t: ‘Look at me, Me, ME!’
Why do clergy always make these occasions about themselves rather than about Jesus? Draw attention to themselves rather than to Christ?
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9:12 Behave yourself.
Don’t you know WHO I am! 😇
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And I’m sure Christ is so important in your life.
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10.28
About as important as he is in Phonsie’s.
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9:12 Too much time and money to throw at New Media has ironically contributed to revealing more truths.
Even we old so called church hags are on it – it must be a nightmare for any young priest to be on Grindr these days, but they are, We see them
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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Who are you?
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@ 11:0am
They should it’s certainly part of it.😉
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Years ago, I remember many priests and bishops creeping in bare feet to venerate the Cross on Good Friday: an act of humility sadly lacking these days. Christ had bare feet, did he not, when he went to the cross?
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He, apparently, had a crown of thorns, too, and scourge marks on his back, but the bishops and priests didn’t go this far, did they?😅
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On occasions some known to go on the lash.
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Anonymoussays:
Apr 9, 2023 at 10:40 pm
For God’s sake get a grip, it’s all an act/ a play, It’s not what happens on one day, Good Friday that matters, it’s how he behaves ever other day throughout the year, if you think Martin excessive spending on one of his active homosexual priest, over years is acceptable, I don’t.
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Why does +Phonsie support the wayward abbot? Fr. Paul Connell’s episcopal appointment is embarrassing. Surely it cannot proceed and he will gracefully exit stage left before it is too late and his eventual exit is more embarrassing?
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11.06: Seamus, you’re an embarrassment at this stage. Is there anyone you like, apart from Dom Benedict, about whom and for whom you’ve done nothing. Absolutely nothing.
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10:21 But Seamus is a priest, so whatever he does we must be merciful and look to ourselves. If that fails we must try to deflect elsewhere.
I’ve learned so much by reading this blog.
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10:21, what has Fr. Paul Connell done? What has Fr. Paul Connell failed to do? I ask you my brothers and sisters to have the courage to call out his sheer hypocrisy.
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Justice for All Gods Children.
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5:15pm We only pray for “OUR FAITHFUL”
Dom Benedict Andersen was NOT faithful.
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7:20
‘Our Faithful’ or faithful? Is monk Dom Benedict Andersen not Catholic?
Am I missing something, Father.
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Seamus,
Those types have no shame.
They couldn’t give a monkeys you know what about Dom. Benedict Andersen or indeed about anyone else outside of their cozy and self indulgent cliques.
It’s all about power – America and Ireland have 2 Roman Catholic Presidents who will do all that is necessary to protect the interests of the Vatican for the foreseeable.
The Yanks will eventually pack up and sell the failed experiment that is Silverstream Priory, Prior Mark Kirby will end his days in luxury with his every whim addressed by the 2 male companions assigned to him.
What will become of Dom. Benedict Andersen or anyone else in a similar position will be down to their ability to secure non compromised legal representation.
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President Biden has announced that he will contest the Presidential election in 2024.
He’s visiting Ireland this week.
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It’s alright lads – Fr can make one heck of a pavlova
https://seminary.maynoothcollege.ie/news-events/2023/seminary-culinary-skills-bake-off
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Really not being funny but you would expect the kind of men attracted to the priesthood not to need lessons in cooking or sewing.
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@8:53am
You’re not funny at all but you’re certainly sexist, what are you trying to imply? as if we didn’t know.
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Tim’s “Maynooth Delight” looks delicious.
I will contact him for the recipe.
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Hope you like cream
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Matthew 3:11
Mark 1:7.
… a priest is called to grow in the likeness of Christ…. I’m not sure what’s going on in Waterford & Lismore but if their Bishop thinks this reprrsents christ-like behaviour than we should be worried for the Diocese’s leadership
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Well, from the look of their pavlovas, they seem to know what they are doing. No doubt dinner in the presbytery will be quite an affair. I guess it’s supposed to help us realise that there are no longer housekeepers available for these priests, poor things, so now they have not only to do their priestly duties but also do their own cooking. To which I say, welcome to the real world, boys, where most of us have to work and do our own cooking ! The reality is that most of them will be popping in to the more pleasant supermarkets and buying prick and serve dinners for themselves. Or heading out to local eateries on the parish ticket. They will not starve. Now, who does the cleaning and the ironing these days in the presbytery ? I do my own.
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9:53 Those priest boyos are on the ticket allright.
Sure, we ordinary folk wouldn’t know the half of it.
Very well connected and educated families produce priests and other useful & related professions.
Roscrea Cistercians amongst other Irish secondary boarding schools have a very long and proud history of educating the most influential people to grace our highest roles in Irish church, business and politics over the years.
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@12.02
That is a bogus statement. If the church controlled State institutions it only stands to reason that their graduates would rise to the top…. but if you want to go that way then I have four words for you… Joseph Stalin… Robert Mugabe
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Good for him, a very humble man.
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You’re easily impressed. Very naive. Almost childish.
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Oh yeah really humble doing it where everyone can see and pictures are published.
Are you actually that stupid? 😂
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I’m afraid they are that stupid. The obvious always escapes them.
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Bishop Phonsie is an extremist in all that he does.
Given the ongoing propensity of the Roman Catholic Church to silence victims of church related abuse via any means they deem necessary, it is disturbing and concerning to see any RC representative proselytising to the young and impressionable as we see here in this photograph with the barefoot Bishop Phonsie Cullinan.
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It’s a human right to express oneself.
Even a dog has the right to bark as a means of expression as my colleagues and I frequently inform complainants when they phone our office.
A blog is a means of communication not a description of the content of that communication.
Attempting to prevent someone from blogging would be like ordering them not to read newspapers, as distinct from the content of particular the of newspapers.
Or, not to look at TV rather than a particular programme.
A bishop should have no say whatsoever on the media of communication employed by priests of his diocese. To engage in the deliberate defamation and discrimination of victims, survivors, whistleblowers, families & supporters is actionable.
This is a travesty of the promise of obedience taken at ordination.
A good lawyer would not be long in sorting out this mess that Bishops and their teams and associates create when attempting to censor the truth about Roman Catholic Church connections to abuse, corruption and criminality.
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Are you the same person using the word defamation on here the other week to try to sound threatening while not having the first idea what it means? 😂
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Your keen, working on a Bank Holiday.
Pay must be good!
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11:16 He’s working overtime.
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8:20 Cop yourself on, the Roman Catholic Church and its self interested cohorts have repeatedly confirmed their firm opposition to the human rights of anyone outside of their overprivileged and wealthy inner circles.
They fully deserve to be kicked out and liquidated whilst ailing and ageing victims and survivors can still enjoy redress but will any country show what it’s made of to make this happen?
France might, but who knows.
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And so she burns, the Eternal city, that no one cares about anymore.
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Do ye want yer aul lobby washed down in Roma.
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The behaviour of some bishops and priests at church as well as outside church
is outrageous and beyond acceptable but is tolerated and covered up by their superiors.
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The Irish edition of the London Sunday Times Source says Thomas Deenihan, the bishop of Meath, which includes Fr John Hogan’s diocese has spoken to Father Hogan but refused to discuss what was said.
Fr Hogan had been in controversy previously when he spoke out against civil partnership for gays, alleging Catholic politicians who supported it could not remain “in good standing with the church.”
The Times reports that “Hogan is also the director of the Fraternity of St Genesius, a Catholic association which says its members support ‘the men and women of the theatrical and cinematic arts through their daily prayers and sacrifices.’
A book he wrote, entitled Devotions to St Thomas Becket, was published in recent years.
Fr Hogan is also very supportive of US efforts to ban abortion.
he tweeted: “Every good wish & blessing to all my friends Stateside who are participating in the March for Life. Your continued witness is making a difference in the US: keep it up! Please remember & pray for us in Ireland as our campaign of resistance must now intensify for the cause of life.”
It is just the latest example of the backlash to the abortion vote.
Irish Government Minister Josepha Madigan who spearheaded the drive to legalize abortion was denied a meeting room at a Catholic institution owned by the Sisters of Mercy.
The nuns’ congregation said “threats have been made of busloads of protesters being brought to the site.
“Many of the representations made to us refer to the speaker’s connection with the abortion referendum and bill, even though this topic is not the subject of her presentation,” Mary Reynolds, chief executive of the Mercy International Association, said in a letter.
Meanwhile, the Roman Catholic Church lobbies for its wealthy benefactors and continues to and with state entities to obstruct justice and redress for victims and survivors of Roman Catholic Church related criminality.
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Just one correction: the phrase is pro choice, not pro abortion. The people who want abortion allowed want people to have a choice; the forced birth (which is a crime against humanity) camp want a choice between birth and bleeding to death from a back alley abortion.
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9.36
Don’t split hairs. ‘Pro-choice’ and ‘pro-abortion’ are semantically much of a muchness.
If someone is genuinely pro-choice (even if they profess themselves anti-abortion), they would have to agree to fund (or to the funding of) abortion facilities in order to be taken seriously.
If you are funding abortion facilities, you can hardly profess to be anti-abortion, that is, to be against abortion.
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9:51 Ah, the usual false equivalence.
Literally, in this case.
Actually you’re miffed because the hairs I’ve split bring out the truth in this matter. That is why forced birth advocates make out that pro choice people are pro abortion.
Here’s another fact y’all like to ignore: the only possible end of the RC church’s teaching on contraception and abortion is rampant overpopulation, famine and death. So-called ‘pro-life’is always a lie.
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9:36 The HSE – Health Service Executive/ the Irish Public Health Service refused to carry out a termination on an Indian woman who had an ectopic pregnancy and medical staff also failed to detect she was suffering from sepsis.
The hospital informed her and her husband that “Ireland is a Catholic country” when denying her pleas on her deathbed for a life saving termination in the case of an ectopic pregnancy.
Mrs Savita Halappansvar, a dentist of Indian origin, subsequently died in University Hospital Galway aged 31.
Her husband alleged the Irish Public Health Service ignored his wife’s rights, particularly her right to life and her right to appropriate medical treatment whilst she was under the care of the HSE. The HSE settled the widowers High Court case for an undisclosed sum.
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9:36 The Roman Catholic Church rewords everything to suit their own self serving agenda.
Any bandwagon will do.
In Ireland, the clergy are currently receiving a lot of criticism for their hijacking of the Irish revolutionary history that is being covered in Irish media 100 years after ending of the Irish Civil War etc.
The Roman Catholic Church application of selective amnesia never fails to rise the hackles of those who remain impacted by unresolved church and institutional abuse and passport forgery and child trafficking etc.
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10.10
As usual for pro-abortionists, evasion when challenged with inconvenient truth.
Where’s the ‘false equivalence’? Being pro-choice means, quite literally, being willing to allow people the option of aborting, or not aborting, their child. Which means, in turn, being willing to allow people the opportunity to abort, or not to abort, their child. (Can you see how this is going to end?). Which consequently means being willing to provide the killing facilities for people to avail of the opportunity to abort their child. Which, finally, means what it has always meant for the so-called ‘pro-choice’: pro-actively supporting the practice of abortion.
‘Pro-choice’ is a politically and morally deceiving mask. Why not butch up and admit what you really are? Have the courage of your convictions. But, then, I don’t suppose it requires any courage to kill an unborn child.
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11:00 What about the Roman Church’s killings in Ireland and Canada? You really can’t see yourselves at all can you. 😂
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11.46
Those killings were gravely wrong, as are intentional abortions.
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12:11 Do you seriously think that’s ok?
Those killings were as you say, grievously wrong. In fact murder.
Abortion is not murder because it’s not killing a person.
False equivalence again.
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1.15
Abortion is not killing a person? What is a person but a human being. And unborn life is human life at a very early stage of development. You can kid yourself otherwise if you wish.
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Father Hogan was quite right to refuse Madigan Holy Communion, she had some nerve to present herself to receive The Holy Sacrament in the first place. She should not be surprised to be refused access to any Religious Congregation’s premises because of her support for abortion.
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9:58 your Gender discrimination terminology is noted.
Incitement of hatred for women and children also well documented in the long and shameful history of the Roman Catholic Church.
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The usual, bigoted rubbish from the usual quarter.
Everyone already has that sacrament in him or her, fool, because Jesus said that the kingdom of God is in everyone. Good or bad.
Maybe you don’t believe Jesus, just holy mother church.
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Does fr. Hogan refuse communionto the clergy that covered up sex abuse and which lead to the suicide of victims. Does he refuse holy communion also to people who use contraceptives and the clergy who masterbate and waste the seed of life. Now who is left to receive?
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@ 11:00am
What gender discrimination are you talking about ya woke idiot, I’d have said the same whatever gender they were.
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@ 11:08am
Everyone does not have the Most Blessed Sacrament in them ya utter fool, they have to receive it. Just the usual uninformed nonsense from a bigot.
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11.53
Jesus said that the kingdom of God (in Aramaic, ‘God’s sovereign presence’) is in everyone. Which means that God himself is already present in every person, regardless of whether he receives the Eucharist. The divine presence is inseparable from our nature as human beings.
You really are biblically illiterate, and an utter fool, if you believe that, without the Eucharist, we do not have Christ; Christ himself said otherwise. But then, Roman Catholics set more store by the words of men (popes and bishops) than they do by those of God himself.
No wonder your church is falling apart. Your disobedience of God is showing itself in the morally putrid fruit your church is producing. Deo Gratias!
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1.44
Biblically illiterate? That is you. Aramaic does not have a word for presence.
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2.23
All that exists has presence, otherwise it would not exist.
Stop splitting hairs. The Aramaic for ‘kingdom of God/Heaven’ is, literally, ‘God’s sovereignty’ The latter may be a direct translation, but it does not, on its own, express the precise, intended textual meaning. This is rendered by the phrase ‘God’s sovereign presence’. ‘God himself’, in other words.
The only fact you have demonstrated is how little biblical knowledge you have. And what you have, frankly, isn’t worth your knowing, because it prompts you to post half-cocked comments.
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Hogan was instrumental in bringing the plague of Mark Kirby and Silverstream to these shores.
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Did Hogan ever teach in Terenure College?
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Hogan is bad news.
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10:14
Why so..?
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Why was Fr. Brian Power (W&L) replaced by a former Carmelite priest…?
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Fr John Hogan, former Carmelite is a director/trustee/board member of Silverstream. Are these fr John Hogans one and the same?
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3:20, Of course they are.
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I just don’t feel like this is what Jesus actually meant when he talked about taking up your cross and following him.
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Correct. Jesus didn’t say any such thing: those words were attributed to him after his death and resurrection by the gospel writer, or by an editor.
The condemned carried only a crossbeam, not a cross. If Jesus had used those words, his followers wouldn’t have had a clue as to what he was talking about. Phonsie is biblically ignorant.
The cross as symbol of suffering, particularly of oppression for discipleship of Jesus, likely gained currency only from the first State-sponsored persecution of Christians under Nero.
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9.21
Again more bluff and bluster posing as biblical literacy. There is no consensus around what exacyly Jesus carried or about what his exact historical words were. Tomes have been produced on the historicity of the passion narratives and his speech and actions in the gospels.
The gospels we have don’t take their validity from the degree of their historical and literal accuracy. Since the earliest gospels date to c40 years after Jesus’ death, their authority is founded on their adoption by the early church and their reception in the early christian centuries and since.
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5.08
The bluff and bluster is coming from you.
ALL scholars agree that it was customary for the condemned to carry only the crossbeam, which was then fixed to a more pernmanent (usually wooden) structure. From this, we can reasonably infer that Jesus, too, like all the others, carried only the crossbeam to his place of execution.
As it was customary to carry only the crossbeam, Jesus’ disciples would not have understood him if he had said the words, ‘carry your cross’, not least because, at this stage of Jesus’ ministry, his disciples neither expected nor anticipated his imminent death. Which means, on balance of probability, that Jesus did not speak those words at all, but that they are entirely attributive.
I hope you are not involved in biblical research.
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10.15
Where to begin with your sham biblical literacy.
1. Any one who claims all scholars agree is getting his information not from secondary biblical sources but from reportings of accounts of summaries. False premise, ergo defective extrapolation.
2. “Jesus, like all the others…” Only a neophyte relying on fifth-hand information (e.g.Google) would be so naive to pen such foolhardy absolutes.
3. Have a look at what A.Y. Collins has to say about the background and history of interpretation of the phrase ‘carry one’s cross’ before making the comment you made on it.
4. Whether or not the historical Jesus spoke this or that word does not gainsay the words he speaks in the canonical gospels and the rest of the N.T.
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10.50
So, you are suggesting that not all biblical scholars agree that it was customary for the condemned person to carry only the crossbeam to the place of execution? Either this, or you were making a frivolous and irrelevant point. Name the scholars, then. And cite precise references to their counter-claims, along with the alternative(s) they propose AND the evidence for it (them).
As for ‘foolhardy absolutes’, I did not state, categorically, that Jesus carried only the crossbeam to the place of execution; I stated it only as a reasonable inference, considering that it was indeed the custom at the time for the condemned person to do so. Re-read my earlier comment, with greater care this time. A reasonable inference is not an absolute.
It is more than a little nonsensical to suggest that I ‘have a look’ at what AY Collins states on the words ‘carry your cross’ before commenting on them, when you know I have already done so. But I’ll let that one pass.
Collins has not attributed those words to Jesus: her discussion of them concerns their exegesis, not their personal origin. I’m not sure what point you were trying to make here, unless, like the other point above, it was frivolity and irrelevance.
Finally, ‘…does not gainsay the words he (Jesus) speaks in the Canonical Gospels and in the rest of the New Testament’ is a logical fallacy: circular reasoning. You don’t know what, if any, words in these sources were spoken by Jesus; you simply presume they were. A presumption cannot prove itself.
Talk of foolhardy absolutes.
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2.23
1. Point of fact: Collins does what you claim she doesn’t. It’s clear you are not familiar with her views on the subject.
2. Not even a first year undergraduate theology student would create hostages to fortune by employing the absolutes ‘All scholars agree…’ and ‘Jesus like all the others carried only…’ And you have done it twice in two paragraphs.
3. If you were au fait with Collins’ work, you’d realise the axiomatic nature of the expression ‘carry the cross.’ Jesus was not the first person to be crucified so your claim the historical disciples wouldn’t have u derstood the phrase is risible. See her view on the currency of the expression in First Century Palestinian Judaism. No. It’s more likely you hadn’t heard of her before today. But it’s easy to call your bluff where you claim to have read her work on this issue. She is extensively published so you will be able to identify in which of her publications she deals with the question.
4. The validity of Jesus’ words and actions in the N.T. doesn’t rely on their historicity but rather arises from their occurrences there. Familiarise yourself with the theology of inspiration. You had parted company with the seminary before that particular module would have been encountered by you.
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5.07
It is telling that you cannot provide evidence for any of your claims. Instead, you resort to insults and evasions, in the latter case, either by ignoring the issues I raised, or by attempting to draw attention from them through strawmen: logical fallicy.
You are wrong about Collins, which is why you cannot cite a single instance of her work in which she categorically declares that the expression ‘take up his cross’ was indisputably spoken by Jesus. Instead, you told me to research the evidence for myself, which only adds to my belief that you don’t know as much of Collin’s work as you would prefer me to accept.
There is no proof whatever that this expression was idiomatic in Jesus’ time. Collins makes no such categorical claim. And wisely. Post-Ascension, however (especially in light of the Neronian persecution), such an idiom, retrospectively, would have made a great deal of sense, but not, of course, to the disciples of Jesus’ time. Hence my point, that Jesus was unlikely to have expressed this idiom. (Incidentally, I did not state that the disciples would not have understood the idiom had it been linguistic currency in Jesus’ time; I said that they would not have understood it as a reference to crucifixion by the condemned person’s having to carry a cross, as depicted in traditional devotions about the Passion, because that was not the customary practice. You really do need to read more carefully.)
Nor could you cite even a single scholar, along with the information I requested about him, who denies the custom in first-century, Roman-occupied Palestine of the condemned person’s having to carry only the crossbeam to the site of execution. You would have had to cite only one scholar to prove me wrong, and, yet, you couldn’t do so.
‘The validity of Jesus’ words … in the N T.’ : There you go again with circular reasoning. Even more peculiar is your belief that divine validity to anything in the Gospel occurs simply by its presence there. Absolutely astonishing.
As for the theology of inspiration, this is entirely speculative and is not proof that the words attributed to Jesus were actually spoken by him. Nor can this theology categorically demonstrate that Jesus would approve them anyway. THIS is what is risible, for it is a open door for projection psychology, in which men build God in their own image.
When you learn to engage with actual, relevant, and empirical argument (and not with insult, evasion, strawman, and bald personal opinion), perhaps we can have a more fruitful discussion, one free of your egotistical envy.
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7.37
I don’t need to point out that it was I who cited Collins. You had never heard of her work before today. In all your idiosyncratic biblical comments here, and they are many, you never once referred to an authoritative source, or for that matter, to any source. How could you when Google is your first and last port of call.
Stick to what you do best: leading the charge with a membership of one to attack Christian ministerial priesthood and to introduce the crime of CSA into every debate when you have run out of argument.
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Phonsie is a combination of the Pope McQuaid & Osma bin without the beard.
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@8:45am
Get a grip ya cretin, you could not equate dear Dr. McQuaid with this pope or indeed Osama bin laden. They would both be anathema to that truly Catholic Prelate.
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Grip what?
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5:08 more blind mans bluff out of you 😒
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It is an odd picture of Phonsie. Not just because of the bare feet, but more so seeing him accompanied by rather worryingly looking uniformed fascist style kids. The optics are all wrong, not just the right wing authoritarian controlling impression it sends out, but also about issues of Phonsie, the Church and safeguarding. Very strange picture, indeed. It screams Phonsie the authoritarian kiddie manipulator. It fits well in to the muscular christianity Opus Dei narrative which is Phonsie’s background.
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Scouts are fascist now? 🤣 Have you been on the 🥃?
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9:31 Tell us you don’t understand the politics of European scouting without knowing you don’t understand them.
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Wasn’t papa ratzi a scout when 14! What was he on?
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11.29
What was he own? Heavy doses of moral cowardice.
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11:44 And heavy shares in banks.
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Yes 9.39 has been on the 🥃. It’s a long-standing problem for him.
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1:26 Sadly a long standing problem for many.
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@ 9:01am
It’s only an odd picture to people like you, left wingers who find anything traditional unacceptable. The fact that you say children wearing a uniform is “Fascist” says more about you. I don’t always agree with Bishop Cullanan as he is a member like the rest of the dreadful Hierarchy of Polyesterdom which is very worrying indeed.
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Traditional? I’ve never seen so much polyester in my life.
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9:01 The Roman Catholic Church is clearly not a safe space for anyone apart from its own inner circle Mafia of professional crooks and the lower class hoods they utilise on the ground.
Those children with Irish control freak Bishop Phonsie do not look happy.
One minute the Irish Bishops are posing and smiling with Abbot Bareback Purcell, next minute with strained faced youths.
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@ 9:40am
I agree, I did say he was a Poly but the bare feet was traditional, much better than that pair in Dublin. Which in the good old days would have been Communicatcio in sacris and not allowed.
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10:34 Would you care to show me in Fortescue and O’Connell where the rite prescribes bare feet?
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This comment makes the most sense on this blog. Phonsie is a control freak and who is easier to control that children. Parents should not leave their children anywhere near Phonsie. This photo screams crazy to me. Crazy Phonsie. It is only a matter of time before he does something bad or get caught for doing it. He is a known supporter of paedeophiles as he is allowing priests known for this to live on the grounds of his house. He has shown support for the Monk who openly attends gay orgies. He supports and hides evidence from the Guards about a Priest who stole 70,000 euro from parish funds. He is against children getting the vaccine for cervical cancer even though it proves it will prevent cancer. He is against children doing yoga to help with their mental health in these times. Organising a youth group that is to be run by a known paedophile. Id like to know why he needs children with him or around him at all times. Now, walking around the streets barefoot holding the cross. What next?? He’s showing signs of someone suffering with mental health problems and parents should be aware – never leave your children alone with him.
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Phonsie appears to be a walking crying sleeping talking contradiction.
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@ 1:32
Of his mind, if he has one, stupid fool.🙄
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What’s wrong with walking barefoot? Sandie Shaw did it all the time.
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Ms. Sandie Shaw was a professional entertainer, not a professional paedophile protector.
I’d have some respect for the likes of Bishop Phonsie if he properly addressed and show more than lip service to ongoing abuse and proactive humiliation of victims of church related abuse.
As things stand, he’s just the same as the rest of his sneaky colleagues.
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While singing puppet on a string!
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I can’t but will look it up, can you tell me where in Fotescue’s “The Roman Rite Described”it doesn’t?
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Sandie Shaw was a class act back in the swinging sixties. She was a cracking dancer a right mover and shaker. Just like Beverly Macker.
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9:27 Sandie Shaw did it as part of her act. Phonsie does it as part of his…
Oh, never mind.
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See
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If you go down to the woods today you better not go alone.
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Where was the photograph of Phonsie taken? Ireland, or abroad? Those children don’t look Irish, from their clothing.
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Waterford city
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Bishop Phonsie brings foreign children to whatever gatherings he’s having in his Diocese of Waterford & Lismore.
Not many Irish born parents would be comfortable with their children at these type of gatherings after all of the yet unresolved scandals of Irish abuse in the Roman Catholic Church.
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9.46 & 9.48
Thanks.
Why are parents allowing their children to be in the company of a Catholic cleric these days? It’s frightening.
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It was taken at Belsen.
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Aka The Bishops Palace, Waterford & Lismore.
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11:29 Why does one single man require a Palace to live in?
Maybe Bishop is lonely and that’s why he invites all those scouts to his home.
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11:02 Are you sure…?
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Oh it was relocated.
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Seriously? I don’t believe so. Bergen-Belsen is in northern Germany, and, yet, those boy scouts are self-evidently (from their hats) Polish. I believe it is Auschwitz, which is in Poland.
There’s a certain low and cowardly irony here. Why did Cullinan travel to Auschwitz to commemorate the Holocaust when his own church, for generations, has operated a holocaust of the young and the vulnerable? Of their bodies, minds, and souls? Could it be that Bishop Cullinan was hoping to draw attention from this? Another cover-up?
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11:53
To house eastern Europeans and those fleeing wars, of course. Why ask…
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Phonsie: On Tour! 🤣
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That photo smacks of pre-WWII fascism. Could be Spain under Franco, or Italy under Mussolini, when RC bishops aligned with Europe’s dictators.
Come to think of it, isn’t Phonsie a member of Opus Dei? And isn’t Opus Dei a Spanish organisation? Telling.
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That is because the fascism of the thirties is exactly what the ‘Catholic’ ‘church’ wants to bring back to the modern world.
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@ 9:42am
You forgot to mention Russia under Stalin.🤣🤣🤣
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11:58 Deliberately, since Russia under Stalin didn’t claim to be divinely founded.
You therefore can’t expect them to get it right.
Or is the Stalin effect what you’re all aiming for these days.
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1:11
The good without God brigade. 🤣
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It is on public record +Phonsie is a member of Opus Dei so well connected to financial resources as was you know who well connected to JP2.
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I was looking at Lord Longford’s book of on humility in a shop the other day but didn’t buy it because I know it all already.
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@ 1:11pm
The Stalin effect as you call it is not what any right thinking people are aiming for at all. Of course after Roncalli and Montini changed The Vatican’s Ostpolitic you could be right about some, with all the lefty liberals still in situ. The Church was divinely founded so we don’t have to worry. We will leave that to people like you.
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Bishop Phonsie is a true Christian. Unlike some.
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What’s a ‘true Christian’? Is it drawing attention to onself rather than to Christ by engaging in showy street theatre in which the person, not Christ, is centre-stage?
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What is a true Christian opposed to false Christians?
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Does + Phonsie go in for self-flagellation ? Or, perhaps he has minions to do it for him ? You know, boys in Lederhosen giving it to him. I’m sure he’d enjoy it.
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One cool shower a day and give it a lash jack on days of obligation.
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The Fonz is only following my favorite bible passage:
“And when you pray, be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. 6 But when you pray, don’t go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen, take off your shoes and do it publicly. Then your Father, who sees what is done in public, will reward you. 7 And when you pray, keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many decades. 8 Be like them, and give generously for your Father knows what we need before you ask him.
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😅😅😅😅😅😅
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Brilliant! 🤣
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Nothing wrong with scouting. It’s never ever been synonymous with right wing movements at all (look out for Pope Nazinger):
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/d8004760-84cb-4371-9561-fffb2b01df7c.jpg
Pro life my arse. Pro power more like.
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Pro power, my arse!
Don’t come near Barbara after a ruby-murray.
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I admire Bishop Cullinan. I don’t agree with some of his views but he is being vilified daily by this blog for living his life as a Bishop as he desires. I think it’s regrettable that he’s ridiculed, scorned, mocked and denigrated, a campaign led by Pat. It’s intriguing that the commenters are a small cohort who repeat comments one after another simply to cause mischief. There’s a nasty whiff of hatred and malice in some comments. Many are reprehensible.
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11:10 The Roman Catholic Church stinks to high heaven for its ongoing abuse and victimisation of those impacted by church related corruption, coverups, abuse of privilege and criminality etc etc.
If you don’t like what you read on this blog that clearly does what it says on the tin, why don’t you utilise all your own well funded resources in the wealthy Roman Catholic Church to start your own blog.
Your comments reveal your transparency, for once, not a regular feature in the RCC.
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11.43: An empty, shallow and typical unthinking reaction to my comnent. The trite…”if you don’t like..” reveals your empty mind. …It’s the deliberate downing for fun and humiliation of Bishop Cullinan and others that’s morally reprehensible. I repudiate such maliciousness.
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11:17 Didn’t think you could answer the comment.
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‘..living his life as a Bishop as he desires’ …very interesting comment from 11:10. Does living his life as a bishop include cause of scandal to the faithful?
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If he identifies as a bishop he must certainly live as one.
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@ 11:10
Isn’t it strange no mention in the local national or international media of this so called campaign with a nasty whiff of hatred and malice to apparently cause mischief. You need to have a word with yourself.
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I think they are Polish boy scouts. 6 Bamboo Outdoor Garden Tiki Torches for £20.49 at B&Q.
https://www.diy.com/departments/oypla-pack-of-6-bamboo-outdoor-garden-tiki-torches-oil-lamps-fire-lanterns-114cm/5060544759647_BQ.prd
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No women in the sanctuary!
Notice that Phonsie has only young males on either side of him. Is that a sign of mysogyny, or of something else?
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@ 11:20am
It’s nothing else, it’s just any excuse for people like you to use that overused word mysogyny
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You don’t use it at all, fool. Wonder why.
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Not defending Phonsie as I’m not a fan of the guy, but he has female Readers and Eucharistic Ministers regularly at his liturgies in Waterford Cathedral.
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Mighty progress so from Daz Fonz.
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Richard: Put your shoes back on!
Phonsie: But I thought you had a foot fetish.
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@ 2:07pm
Because I don’t have too, as fools like you are never done using it. I wonder why?
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10.02: This is a cracking question. Utterly repetitive and ignorant. It’s typical of a vindictive and biased narrative and uts shameful to make so sweeping a judgment. Halving observed some families over the years and having to report to services, there are many, many family settings where I’d never allow a child reside…All abuse by whomsoever is horrendous and disgusting.
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You do realize that saying there are other situations where children aren’t safe doesn’t absolve or excuse your cult’s prolific violence and cover up?
At least not in the eyes of anyone with any moral sense?
The reason I don’t allow my children near a church (except for things like weddings, where I’m with them) is I wouldn’t want them to meet people like you until they’re old enough to know how twisted you are.
If you didn’t keep pointing to everyone else people wouldn’t feel the need to keep repeating the narrative that you hate hearing so much. Sort out your safeguarding and attitude and people will shut up.
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11.37: You’re a hypocrite with that attitude. Your children should go to a pagan temple for marriage. I am very well aware of our safeguarding policies: they are forever on my agenda. Your dismissive and twisted jibes are offensive. You paint all of us with the same brush…which is unjust, unfair and disingenuous. Every year we have a dedicated day for Child Safeguardung for everyone involved in all groups in our parish. I am not a careless person. Our polices are in display and we have a team of people who look after all children’s welfare in children’s groups. And I’m sure if you go to your own parish, apart from “weddings”, you’ll find similar protocols. Take off your biased blinkers. But I’d stay with the the pagan temple. It would be more honest…
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The only way kids will be safe in an RC church is if you start calling the churches uteruses. Then they’ll suddenly be interested.
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12:13 Good of you to admit pagans are more honest than cathbots.
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I love it when 12:13 goes off on one.
Lucky he’s not like everyone else and gets it. 😂
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11:28 you’re still crying after all the income the church and institutions lost when you weren’t allowed any longer to snatch children off families you hoity toity took away, not because you cared about them but brcatse they were cash cows and slaves for your laundries abs your friends businesses.
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1.07: Recently a couple came to me to discuss their piossible Church wedding.. They had lapsed but still had a faith and belief un rhetoric “sanctity” of barringer and asked could they be accommodated. It was the Church where her parents married and she received the sacraments in same church. The couple were very honest and after some time they decided to opt for a church celebration of the sacrament outside of mass. This happened. I admire such honestly but the couple said afterwards that the experienced urged them to reflect again on “faith”. Wish more couples were like this.
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It’s extraordinary that RCs only have the reactions that they’re being persecuted and to point at everyone else when their atrocious abuse record comes up.
How did you expect the rest of the world to view you?
Are you genuinely incapable of thinking of any of the other responses which would indicate some semblance of care? – 11:28 I would actually like to hear your answer to this question.
Or do you genuinely not care?
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All abuse is utterly disgusting horrendous life altering and damaging.
Pat Buckley’s blog focus is on abuse corruption and crime in the RCC nationally and internationally. If you wish to blog on familial abuse feel
free to do so elsewhere.
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I hope Bishop Alphonsus doesn’t have any underlying condition like diabetes as this could play havoc on his health if he happens to walk on a nail or sharp object. Also that path is probably full of germs as in Ireland the paths are not hosed down. I hope he sees sense and wear his shoes.
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With children present, sandals may have been more appropriate with or without socks.
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What did Jesus say of the Scribes and the Pharisees? How did it go?
They do all their deeds to be seen by men; for they make their phylacteries broad as their bared feet and their stoles long. And they love the place of honour at festivals, and attention in public. And being hailed Christman! by the people.
Was this it?
Thank God our Phonsie isn’t one of these!
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But only because that stoles quite short.
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Was that stole stolen?
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Roman Catholic clergy are not pastors.
They are operators.
They are EMS – Ecclesiastical Movers and Shakers.
They are company men and men who along with their colleagues & cohorts puts the RCC Mafia before all else.
Rare Bishops & clergy desire to leave their diocese/parish spiritually better after their reign.
Today Bishops and clergy want to leave their Diocese in the black after their media driven reign.
There are all kinds of reasons why the RCC is in decline.
But one of the principal reasons is that the RCC’s clergy are wolves in shepherd’s clothing.
And wolves neither believe or pray.
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Pastors are unlike RCC company men. They are true shepherds not movers and shakers or RCC ladder climbers.True pastors are EMJ- ecclesiastical movers like JESUS.
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Most protestant pastors now in Belfast murdered Catholics in their former days or found religion conveniently in the Maze or Crumlin Road.
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@ 3:18pm
Pastors are true shepherds, are you mad? For a start they are all heretics, have you never heard of ‘extra ecclesiam nulla salus’ silly Billy🙄
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8:45
Give yourself me and all of us a break from Church speak.
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8:45 Have you heard of the heresy of Feenyism?
That quote tricks many into a non-Catholic interpretation.
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The photo is taken from Bishop Phonsie’s Facebook page and is cropped. Had the full photo as shown on the Bishop’s Facebook page was published her, older people could be seen in the photo standing behind him. Yes there is young scouts in the front around the Bishop, but there is many older people following on.
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We all said Alphonsus would regret his ridiculous response to you presenting yourself to communion.
He could have given you a sign of peace, expressed regret that he couldn’t give you communion or even asked for your blessing.
But no. What an eejit.
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This Bishop Da Fonz guy looks kinda interesting’
Sandals?
Mmmm…….
Wondering, what’s his story?
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Was Bishop Da Fonz parachuted in from elsewhere? He looks like a guy waiting for lift off from on high.
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Fr Spacer and Bergin must use the same mobile device.
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My favourite thing on this blog is the way the ‘faithful’ try to troll their critics and just end up showing they don’t value human life, have no idea of safeguarding, don’t regret the crimes of their cult, and are obsessed with dressing up.
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EVERY Diocese and Religious Order on the island of Ireland needs to be investigated.
Safeguarding MUST be completely independent of the RCC.
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My favorite thing on this blog is playing spot the christmen forked tongued double speak.😆
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3.18: you’ll soon be running out if your favourite things…won’t you? You sound like misery personified.
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The Bishop of Meath is refusing to accept a priest back into his diocese who is openly gay and in a relationship with a colleague. What a hypocrite!
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Who is it?
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2:08
Who do you say he is?
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Sure they are all actively gay so why would he isolate one person for?
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So, the Dalai Lama has crossed the boundaries of intruding the space of a little child. The child asked for a hug which he got from the Dali Lama but he then hugged the boy closer and asked hm to kiss his tongue!!! Imagine!! It has all been recorded and has caused much negative reaction with some calling it child abuse but since, as a spokesperson said, it was all done jovially and in a spirit of fun
the media passed on. Imagine…
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Cathbot 101: When cornered, advert to anyone else but tell those cornering you to look to themselves.
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He asked him to SUCK his tongue 👅
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1 19, my favourite thing on this blog is the way idiots like you try to minimise legitimate criticisms and haven’t a brain to do so cogently except to copy the sound byte used daily by hogheads like you. I suspect your education only saw you to primary level. Buffoonery at its vest.
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My other favorite thing is the way the cathbots only ever repeat back what anyone else says. It’s almost like they can’t think 🤔
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My favourite thing is you always talking shite on here about your favourite things. Whilst we are on the subject, my favourite thing is you looking at yourself in the mirror in your vanity case. I bet you are that same saddo who keeps wanting to investigate every diocese every 2 minutes. Get a life ffs.
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ALMOST!
You’re being very generous ☺️
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3:15,
EVERY Diocese and Religious Order on the island of Ireland needs to be investigated.
Safeguarding MUST be completely independent of the RCC.
Not mine but I definitely agree. Do you?
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My favorite thing is rattling cathbot cages ruffling cathbot feathers and telling them they need debriefing.
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Phonsie is Opus Dei and a hardcore nutjob who is against yoga, vaccines and covid precautions. This alone is enough. Never mind the fact that he mysteriously has a house in Glencomeragh to help ”youth” and organizes men only camps in the woods. What exactly goes on at Glencomeragh house? Indoctrination? He fired a perfectly good priest, Richard Geogheghan, while brought back into the fold an abbot who actually rode someone bareback on a scullery table in boarding school, likely with young boarders not too far away. The man is utterly reprehensible, and I say that as someone who had the misfortune of meeting him. People like him have no place in modern Ireland and parents should let neither their kids or youths anywhere near this guy and his cohorts unsupervised.
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2:36pm The Irish clergy & their cohorts are a bunch of hardcore cover up merchants.
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Well it is known as ground zero.
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11:28,
Take a deep breath and pause to think of the full significance of two facts here:
1. People here are telling you they don’t believe your church is safe for children.
2. They are telling you your own response is inadequate (and would no doubt say that about the church on an institutional level).
Pause for a few minutes and try to think of any other way you could respond to people thinking this.
What should a church and its members do when the public don’t think its safeguarding is adequate?
What should a church and its individual members do when outsiders say its response to its horrendous history of abuse is inadequate?
Please try to think about this, can you?
Can you come up with something, anything that would be a better response than you’ve come up with so far?
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Oh dear, + Phonsie won’t like all this stuff being written about him and being in the spotlight, certainly not the questionable things that are being said about him. There definitely is a whiff of the nut job cultishness about him, all that Opus Dei stuff, men’s weekends in the woods chopping wood and bow and arrows, Boy Scout attendants, inordinate interest in ‘the youth’ etc. It’s all a bit strange, and just doesn’t feel right for most people. Slightly off kilter. But, I think we all know when we see, hear and smell stuff that is not right. Phonsie and his style and antics is definitely one of those things. He’s hiding something, he’s got a hidden agenda, what you see is not what it really is. It’s very Opus Dei.
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2:44 +Phonsie seems to be a grumpy aul devil, doesn’t seem like there is much that he does like but he’s grand we hear when he’s with his own circle.
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@2.44pm On the contrary and you are deluded thinking that.
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4:56 Another gaslighting remark from the fathers.
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Phonsie’s bare-feet posing for the cameras is a sham in light of his treatment of Fr Richard Geoghegan
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His treatment of Fr. Richard Geoghegan was a take off your shoes moment in time.
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Reply to;Anonymoussays:
Apr 10, 2023 at 10:10 am
Odd how your take on, “contraception and abortion is rampant overpopulation, famine and death”.
Why the hell doesn’t those who are so concerned with overpopulation, famine, and death, consider those reasons for getting rid of their unborn child before they become pregnant, not afterwards. We hear all the reasons why a woman doesn’t want to have the child, when she is suck with an unwanted, why they can’t applied those same reasons before conception, is beyond me.
I understand there are situations where termination is maybe acceptable.
I am referring to those who used the termination of a pregnancy as a form of birth control, sometimes over and, over again.
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Because people don’t think like that, Queenievenus. The reality is you don’t ever stop people having sex – look at the clergy. And the reality is the consequences don’t do much to change human behaviour. That’s why in many areas of healthcare the emphasis is now on harm reduction rather than leaving people to their own devices and telling them they shouldn’t do it.
On your own analysis, if the RC church was vaguely interested in reducing abortion every church would have a free condom dispenser outside.
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Reply to;
Anonymoussays:
Apr 10, 2023 at 2:25 pm
” Lured by Satan” indeed!!!!
They were NOT lured by Satan, they choose of their own free will to sexually abuse and, violate Roman Catholic children and, the minors.
The only Satan was/is themselves, the heinous despicable human being, who raped and sexually assaulted for his/her own sexual satisfaction, they committed a criminal act, if it suits you better to call it sin as well and it keeps you happy o be it.
This bloody nonsense of blaming Lucifer, has to stop, it is an idiotic way of apportioning and minimising blame.
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You seem to reply to many, have you no work to do. Have you np one to boil your egg and cut your toast into shoulders? You seem to be a layabout 5.19pm and 5.20pm. Deaf Guy has now entered the debate. Which retreat is he going to next? Yawn
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Glad to hear your life is so exciting you melt
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A silent retreat for a months p&p. The divil.
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5:49 Egg and shoulders. Always my favorite.
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Sadly rcc does attract a fair share of extremists as usual, nothing new especially in Traddies and other extreme acts such opus dei guy Silas in a movie whipping lash, that metal thing that I don’t know what to call it at his calf.
Silas resembles something of an extremist who would die for their master who was a cardinal, not God.
Apart from that, its also Muslims as well.
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Sorry to see a Chaplain to His Holiness talking in such a fashion as Mgr Toddus @ 7.09pm. What is more exciting for you as Chaplain? Tying the laces on the Papal shoes or wiping his arse? Do tell Monsignor, Chaplain to His Holiness.
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The movie was ‘the da vinci code’ re Silas the monk and opus dei cardinal.
Great acting by Paul Bettany re ‘Silas’ the monk.
The greater the exposure re opus DEI via movie,the better the spotlight is on THEM.
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Paddy says to Mick, “I found this pen, is it yours?” Mick replies, “don’t know, give it here.” He then tries it and says, “yes it is.” Paddy asks, “how do you know?” Mick replies, “that’s my handwriting.”
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The English have taken the piss out of the Irish with the Mick jokes in a derogatory way. You have fallen into their trap using it. They rarely use ithe same joke
against any other cultural identity. Funny that! You are a Biddy or maybe a Mick, good for nothing but stacking the brick.
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‘They rarely use ithe same joke
against any other cultural identity’
Why would the English call the Indians, Pakistanis, blacks and all the other people they’re racist about by a racist term specific to the Irish?
I swear if nobody else oppressed you you’d do it yourselves by allowing the Catholic church to run your country. 😂
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She is starting to overtake that other queen, Kitty, on the comments, Bp Pat.
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I’m feelin’ it in me waters. A blog on Silverstream is on the horizon.
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8:59
Killaloo & Gaynooth
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As long as we aren’t subjected to any more clap trap about boring Killaloe or Maynooth that’s just fine by me.
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@ 12:16am Who’s the tall thin guy in the middle of the row making the pavlova in the Maynooth photo? He’s very obviously gay and loves the camera.
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Waterloo ahoy there matey.
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