My Moroccan Diary, Day 1- Day 3
Readers will have to respect the fact that this is not a report but a diary written contemperaneously with the events on the trip. So there will be some repetition and in fact as I type there might...
View ArticleMy Moroccan Diary – Day 4 to Day 6
With Day 3 seeing me to bed at 9.00pm, I had a lengthy 10 hour stint before arising at 7.00am for the start of Day 4. Today promises excitement, we are being given the works by a local vineyard, Val...
View ArticleSt Bede’s College In Manchester
Unfortunately I have been off the boil these last few days having been struck down with post African lurgi which is a vicious form of an amalgamation of pig, donkey, camel, butterfly and cat and dog...
View ArticleMore on St Bede’s College in Manchester
Well it is all happening in Manchester in light of the Sunday Times disclosures last weekend about abuse at St Bede’s College with Grenada putting out a film in their regional news programme on Monday...
View ArticleEven More On St Bede’s College In Manchester
Now we here at the Paul Malpas Blog have been very patient, almost kind to our old alma mater, St Bede’s College in Manchester. We have said nothing detrimental about the poor school in nearly three...
View ArticleMy Moroccan Diary – Day 7 to Day 9
My Moroccan Diary – Day 7 to Day 9 When I awoke on Day 7, I knew immediately that it would be a warm one. Breakfast under a cloudless sky followed by mint teas all round at an adjacent café. It was...
View ArticleMy Moroccan Diary – Day 10 to Day 12
My Moroccan Diary – Day 10 to Day 12 It is now Day 10 of my Moroccan visit and a lovely cool morning, not cloud in the bright blue sky. It is 9.10am and most adults are still in bed. I breakfast on...
View ArticleMy Moroccan Diary – Day 13 to Day 15
My Moroccan Diary – Day13 to Day 15 The morning of Day 13 dawned and I was up with the lark and out to the boulangerie in the semi-darkness at 7.30am with the Medina coming to life, I bought three...
View ArticleSt Bede’s Opened Up
http://isiservice.devprocess.com/DownloadReport.aspx?t=c&r=GRT6928_20131112.pdf&s=6928 Well it has been made public and the above link will take you there. It is a damning indictment of the...
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BBC On St Bedes Last Night
Well it has all been happening rather fast on the Bedian front since I wrote my last posting on 17th January 2014 entitled Even More On St Bede’s College In Manchester. That same day the Senior...
View ArticleDanny Kearney’s Attempt To Right A Wrong
The article below was brought to my attention by St Bede’s veteran, Michael Lawlor, now a resident of the state of Ottawa in Canada, but part of the 1947 intake at Bede’s making him one of my oldest...
View ArticleThe Reality Of St Bede’s In The 1950s & 1960s
People recently have been remarking on the language used in my blog postings and how it offends some and puts them off attaching to my ideas. Well I feel very sorry for having offended their...
View ArticleLlandudno Here I Went. (Arse Over Tit)
We set off early on Friday morning, 24th January 2014, destination Llandudno, in North Wales, up to Dublin and embarked on the 2.00pm boat, the Epsilon, on its maiden voyage. Owned by Irish Ferries...
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St Bede’s Seem To Be Growing Teeth Or Is It Just Gums.
Well would you believe it, I was halfway through reading my e-mails this morning when the following dropped onto the screen. A complaint from a gallant but obviously very young person who is a newly...
View ArticleA Trip To Cork
Well I am back online after suffering an attack last Thursday and me only discovering it on Friday night and these computer anoraks who only work five days a week not getting into gear until Monday...
View ArticleThe Trial of Timothy Rustige – Part 1
Timothy Rustige Trial Part 1 We were up early, 4am, for our journey down to Dublin. It was perfect weather, 2C in the West, 4C in Dublin. Terminal 2 was very quiet, only a few last minute stragglers...
View ArticleThe Trial Of Timothy Rustige – Part 2
Timothy Rustige Trial Part 2 Tuesday and Wednesday, 25th and 26th February. We have to sit here now for two days and enjoy Aberdeen whilst a previous case conveniently reaches denouement, a dour grey...
View ArticleThe Case Against The Salford Diocese, Monsignor Thomas Duggan and St Bede’s...
Well events are coming along nicely in the case of alleged abuse of pupils by Monsignor Duggan, Rector of St Bede’s College from 1950 -1966, 16 years when unbridled sexual abuse of young boys was an...
View ArticleThe Mission At St Joseph’s Church In Boyle, Co Roscommon.
Two days ago, I had my first face to face encounter with the other side of the Catholic Church, what you could call the spiritual, good side of the Church, as opposed to the fudgers and clerical...
View Articleeflow And I, Here We Go Again
Well here we go again, into battle with eflow, the ever beloved agent of the Road Transport Authority, given wholehearted permission to come the bully on all who use the M50 motorway, which takes...
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