Thank God we now live in an era when the State can call the church to account.

Anybody got video of the statement?

Who is Charlie “Flanaghan”?

Both Taoiseach and Tánaiste have been exposed saying one thing to the people and believing another in the last few weeks.

Good job Enda. This is the first time, and the first Taoiseach, to condem the Vatican and not just individual clergy, for thier role in the sexual abuse of Ireland’s children. On this day it would be harder for me to be more proud of our Taoiseach and our country.

Pot, kettle, black?

It’s good to hear these words, but the state worked hand in glove with them for years. That encouraged church personnel to think they were above the law.

Very surprised at enda’s statement but pleasantly surprised. The leader of the country did good today for the citizens.

I’ll never vote Fine Gael but I have to say : Well done Enda. I’m very proud of the Irish State today.

Saint Kenny!!!. The catholic bashing will not win you vote. The church had committed crime, you where part to the system.

Mr Kenny is right!

Great Speech by Enda Today. For too long the church has done little or nothing about the systematic child abuse done by these criminals in collars. The Vatican needs to be told it like it is and today Enda stuck it too them. Will they do anything? I doubt it, they seem to think they are so above everyone else they don’t need to dignify the Irish people with an appropriate response. Proud of Enda today anyway.

Take note Fianna Fail ex Taoisigh, that’s how you hold collusion in the elite hierarchy of child abusers to account. Well done Enda!

Well done Enda, it needed to be said.

About time Enda..
Home Rule not Rome Rule!

Well Done Enda ..Very proud of you with that speech today . It needed to be said and said straight . Thank you .

These scum were meant to be gods servants on earth, they are nothing more than common rapists. Pope jp 2 is being made a so called saint, he is also a complicit rapist. A nun interviewed on tv last week said this was all being blown out of proportion, she should be utterly ashamed of herself and I hope she and her like minded peers die in hell if it exists. The biggest scam the catholic church ever pulled was convincing people that god ever existed.

But why expel Paulo Nutini from Ireland? Some of his music is quite good.

Unfortunately the children’s choice was a follows: their parents were going to starve them, not educate them, abuse them etc etc. The church offered food, comfort, structure, education and no greater amount of sexual abuse than in the rest of society.

I think Enda’s speech us elegant proof that this is a new Ireland under FG/Labour.

Being brought up as a Protestant in the North I’d held the belief that the Vatican pulled the strings in Ireland, at one time it did.

Some people have condemned Enda as reading his speech like a robot, I disagree. I think Enda was so mad about the entire situation he had to use professional detachment lest he lose his cool and cause a major diplomatic incident. It’s been made clear that this new government really is in service to the people of Ireland, not to whoever throws them a few Euro.

I’ve sent friends of mine in the north who are staunchly unionist links to videos of the speech to show them their dated ideas about the Republic are outdated and that we are a bight vibrant Republic.