Anti Catholicism prevalent in Ireland,but...

[T Fearon]

The Sacristan of the Dominican Church in Drogheda is currently on tenth day of a hunger strike against thr Order's decision to close the church in that locality.He claims that the church is drawing capacity congregations on Saturday evenings and ever increasing numbers to Sunday masses.Obviously hoping for a favourable outcome here but amid all the depressing anti catholic and theophobic statements,not least on this board,it is heartwarming to see people prepared to make great sacrifices for the faith.

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T Fearon

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Insubordination and dissent is not good for any organisation.The last time this happened on a major basis in Catholic Church protestantism resulted.The decisions of the hierarchy must be obeyed without question as they are divinely informed at all times.

this is your take on internal dissent from this morning.

[muppet]

we weren't consulted about the closure, I don't know if other churches were, we just got the diktat

Tony, I thought you were a big fan of diktat within the Church?

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Insubordination and dissent is not good for any organisation.The last time this happened on a major basis in Catholic Church protestantism resulted.The decisions of the hierarchy must be obeyed without question as they are divinely informed at all times.

this is your take on internal dissent from this morning.

[T Fearon]

I admire the commitment of the sacristan and the faith that inspires it,also he is not in defiance

[muppet]

I admire the commitment of the sacristan and the faith that inspires it,also he is not in defiance

He is on hunger strike Tony.

If that is not defiance then I don't know what is.

[Itchy]

I still can't decide is Tony Fearon the biggest idiot ive ever come across or the greatest internet wind up merchant the world has ever known. Probably the former!

[AhNowRef]

I still can't decide is Tony Fearon the biggest idiot ive ever come across or the greatest internet wind up merchant the world has ever known. Probably the former!

Ive been wondering that myself ... and it does seem like the former except it would be a slur on all idiots as most of them don't harbor dangerous and hideous views like the aforementioned creature!!

[Eamonnca1]

He has been known to grace the letters page of the Belfast Telegraph with his presence. Much as I'd like him to be a fictitious persona invented for entertainment purposes, I suspect he might be the real deal.

[Farrandeelin]

I met him once. He wasn't a nutcase. Indeed, he was actually dead on.

Got his autograph.

I'd say he's sounder than he makes out to be on this. His facebook (am friends with a few from here) certainly doesn't make him out to be a nutter like he's made out by all and sundry here to be.

[seafoid]

I met him once. He wasn't a nutcase. Indeed, he was actually dead on.

Got his autograph.

I'd say he's sounder than he makes out to be on this. His facebook (am friends with a few from here) certainly doesn't make him out to be a nutter like he's made out by all and sundry here to be.

People can behave very differently online compared to face to face. Mike Sheehy may well be sound if you meet him in real life.
Fearon has something that makes him find taking the piss very amusing and he doesn't really know where to draw the line. Ask the Liverpool fans. 
It's probably studied in university departments, whatever it is.

[muppet]

I met him once. He wasn't a nutcase. Indeed, he was actually dead on.

Got his autograph.

As his advisor I must inform you that it was merely a note and was reported accurately to his superior.

[T Fearon]

I would appreciate not being posted about as if I'm not here

[Myles Na G.]

I would appreciate not being posted about as if I'm not here

Who said that? 

[Eamonnca1]

Oh I'm sure he' a harmless oul divil in person.  When you go into certain forums where there's a certain topic that usually gets discussed, someone's going to pipe up his views on that one subject but that's only a small percentage of what they're about. Plus there's the keyboard attitude v face-to-face attitude which are always going to be different. There's a newspaper comments section that I often go onto to give out about motorists every time they give out about cyclists, just to stir it up a bit and for slagging purposes. To see my persona there you'd think I'm a bit of a lunatic too.