You’d nearly wonder if the Kremlin was full of Fine Gael supporters, all along.
Until one question has been convincingly answered, one can hardly blame the public for suspecting that the Church might still have that problem, or that it might come back with a vengeance.
We are supposed to treat accused people with the presumption of innocence – or in other words the presumption that they have been wrongly accused.
Also: Olympic scandal, the courts create a new right, and John alienates the readers, again.
If the Pope – this one or his predecessors – had any interest in saving the church in Ireland, he should have sacked every Irish Bishop twenty years ago and installed people from outside the country to completely reform the Irish Church, root and branch.
The names you have read in relation to this story in whatsapp groups and on facebook pages are, by definition, almost certainly wrong.
South Asian rape gangs
Rapists played race card.
But seriously: Where are the prosecutions for the men to whom he provided these “services”?
The reluctance in Ireland to challenge consensus, and authority, and the way things are done, is, and forever will be, the cancer at the very heart of our society.
Scout leader pleaded guilty.
A powerful interview on the steps of the criminal courts, yesterday afternoon, after former Terenure College Rugby Coach, John McClean, was sent to prison for eight years. Damien Hetherington, one of his victims, was in court to hear the verdict, and stepped in front of the cameras when it was all over. The whole thing […]