Duggan: Was He Or Wasn’t He.
On the 23rd August 2011 I wrote a posting entitled Questions To Be Answered a quizzical look at an almost anonymous priest of the Salford Diocese and on the 30th April 2012 I followed it up with an...
View ArticleDoes Charity Begin At Home?
Well certainly it does but there are circumstances where it definitely shouldn’t and the tale I am about to tell is one of these circumstances. “Caritas Internationalis is a confederation of 164 Roman...
View ArticleHistorical Abuse In Schools And How St. Bede’s Cannot Seem To Deal With It.
Now that the court cases are lining up against the Salford Diocese and St. Bede’s College, news has come through how one school in New York has found a way of dealing with the problem of child sexual...
View ArticleFrom The Shannon To The Somme
Over the last week I have experienced some exhilarating highs but also some terrible bone shattering lows after helping to put on a play for the Gathering here in Boyle. I explained the play in a fair...
View ArticleFr Barry O’Sullivan, Therapist Duped By A Duper.
I think I will set myself up as a personnel consultant specialising in the priests of the Salford Diocese. I more than anyone know the abilities and more the inabilities of this august body of...
View ArticleCameron, St Bede’s, O’Sullivan And Much, Much More.
Just back from a rhapsodic week in rural France, ensconced in a 300 year old, three storey mill, surrounded by sun, sheep, donkeys, cattle, birds (including large woodpeckers), flies, ants, snakes,...
View ArticleIreland Then and Now
As regular readers of my blog will know, I had the absolute privilege of helping to put on a couple of live performances of a play From the Shannon to the Somme written by Neil Richardson which in a...
View ArticleSt Bede’s: The Liars, The Priests, The Sufferers.
Can I refer the reader to Sean Carr’s comments in my posting of 9th June Cameron, St Bede’s, O’Sullivan And Much, Much More. Sean in his first comment quoted verbatim the note issued to all parents at...
View ArticleComment From An Old Bedian
Today I received a comment from an Old Bedian, Paul Taylor from North Manchester. Paul is not as old and wizened as I but he was at the College, his years there straddled the Duggan and Riley eras....
View ArticleComment From A Bedian Parent.
Today I received a comment from a concerned parent, Marsha Jones. I thought it and my answer were too important to leave in an addendum to a posting I wrote nearly two months ago entitled St. Bede’s:...
View ArticleVolunteering For Pleasure.
The two main thing you have in spades in retirement is dwindling money resources and plenty of time. Dwindling money resources, what with bankers, government and markets all joining up to rob you of...
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The Sun Always Shines…
It is 11 days since my last posting, 11 days of mind searching, trying to think of another subject for posting on my blog. It becomes demoralising sitting here at my desk at 4.30am trying to summon up...
View ArticleHe Who Pays The Piper Calls The Tune.
I was going to let the onslaught on the piss poor management at St Bede’s College in Manchester have a rest for the summer and let old DK and Florid have some breathing space to think up some more...
View ArticleLaicisation Or Licensed Freedom, That Is The Question For The Salford Diocese.
I refer the reader back to my posting of May 21st this year entitled Does Charity Begin At Home where I discussed the merits of the Catholic charity, Caritas, and its total naivety in allowing the...
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Openness And Transparency And The Catholic Church
Can it be,is it possible that the openness and transparency that the world is crying out for in the area of clerical sex abuse is not the policy of the Church but that they are being blackmailed into...
View ArticlePeace Reigns On A Turbulent Future.
As we sit through these languid, warm and showery days of August 2013 realising there is work to do, putting a coat of varnish on the windows or clearing out the garage after a winter’s misuse, I...
View ArticleWilful Blindness
Margaret Heffernan is a strong woman, with her fingers in a lot of pies, gifted, with an unbelievable ease in public speaking and a god given gift for getting her message across, a true teacher. Her...
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The Wedding of Louise and Boz and Other Events
Well I have just arrived back in Ireland after a hectic week full of celebratory meals and too much alcohol, as we enjoyed the high spot, the wedding of my third daughter, Louise. The trip commenced...
View ArticleSt Bede’s College, Manchester And Its A Level Results
Yesterday I received an e-mail from a former pupil of St Bede’s which deserves publishing. Paul Taylor was in the 1964 intake, leaving in 1971. He had the unique experience of serving under three...
View ArticlePoor Dumb Fuckers
As regular readers will know, I do not have a television set and I do not watch television in the pub or anywhere else these infernal machines are situated. Why because it’s full of crap and lies....
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