Donna Air Puts Scandal Behind Her (Mail)

Thanks Scary Lady

“Rosemount, Moate, Co. Westmeath. Taken at the annual sports day at Rosemount GAA pitch.” (Thomas Collins)

Bleak Irish Holiday Snaps to: Broadsheet@broadsheet.ie

It’s not just here.

Heinous as the accusations are, the most shocking – and significant – are those against the fifth defendant, Monsignor William Lynn (above). At 60, Lynn is portly and dignified, his thin lips pressed together and his double chin held high. In a dramatic fashion statement, he alone has chosen to wear his black clerical garb today, a startling reminder that this is a priest on trial, a revered representative of the Catholic Church, not to mention a high-ranking official in Philadelphia’s archdiocese.

Lynn, who reported directly to the cardinal, was the trusted custodian of a trove of documents known in the church as the “Secret Archives files.”

The files prove what many have long suspected: that officials in the upper echelons of the church not only tolerated the widespread sexual abuse of children by priests but conspired to hide the crimes and silence the victims.

Lynn is accused of having been the archdiocese’s sex-abuse fixer, the man who covered up for its priests. Incredibly, after a scandal that has rocked the church for a generation, he is the first Catholic official ever criminally charged for the cover-up.

 

The Catholic Church’s Secret Sex-Crime Files (Sabrina Rudin Ederly, Rolling Stone)

He’s “one of the few who can match the falsetto quality of Joe’s voice.”

We did not know that.

Ronan Collins Sings Joe Dolan (National Concert Hall)

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httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfekz-WDSPY

Mmmf. Promised we wouldn’t…cry.

Stirring 9/11 Tribute From The Women Of Hooters (Jezebel)

He counted them all.

Now, that‘s citizen journalism.

Irish Times Letters