The laptop was stolen . Lol ya rite

“Get rid of the evidence Ted”.”……………

If the priest wants to look at either gay porn or straight porn in his own personal time then that’s fine by me and tbh it’s perfectly legal.

My problem with this is 1. Claiming it wasn’t his fault, 2. Laptop apparently being stolen and 3. Destroying the USB stick so it couldn’t be examined…..this likely would have have course proven he put the images on it.

Anyway, I would have had far more respect for the priest if he just owned up and said that the images were for personal use (he’s human after all) and just said it was an error on his part and he’ very sorry they were displayed.

All this denial stuff is nonsense, but then I suppose the church and it’s followers have been doing it for centurys so why change??

Down with that sort of thing!

Laptop goes missing, USB is destroyed and zero chance of finding out where these images originated from. What a coinicidence. Does McVeigh honestly think we’ve all come down in the last shower?

Ben, unlike many I am well aware that being gay does not = being a sexual abuser and as such I never said that, so I’d rather you do not try and misquote me or suggest I said something I did not.

My point is if this priest was gay then this is perfectly fine and he should not be afraid to just say it, there’s nothing wrong or illegal about somebody being gay yet some people seem to have a laugh about if he was. Such a shame really.

All jokes aside, there are some serious questions with this case. Why destroy the memory stick if he knew nothing about its contents? A memory stick can hold a lot of images and presumably only a few images were actually seen by those present so what else, if anything, was on there?
Also there’s the stolen laptop aspect which seems a bit vague.
The involvement of cardinal Brady, given his history, doesn’t fill me with confidence either.

It was just resting in my account Dougal……!!!

So he destroys the memory stick that evening , a laptop gets stolen so can’t be examined as part of the investigation , he asks for a sabbatical and is granted one by bishop but only on the basis he returns to his parish again when it all dies down , not a word explaining how or who might be to blame and a statement over the weekend saying he’s has a very difficult month and needs the break……is this a craggy island Xmas special script ,am I the only one who thinks that while this obviously ain’t as serious as sexual abuse it still shows how the church have learned nothing about how to conduct themselves with public relations or manage their priests properly

Only 3 ways the photos could have been displayed.
1. In an open browser window which the priest failed to close from a previous, ahem, browsing session.
2. In another image viewer application from a private stash, where the image viewer was still open from a previous, ahem, viewing session.
3. Actually inserted in the power presentation by mistake or design by whoever built the presentation which meant the image had been copied.

If any of the 3 circumstances occurred in my profession, my job would be lost. That’s not a witch hunt. That’s an absolute 100% fact.

Classic! Had me in tears hearing the story today, couldn’t write this stuff.

Were the images contained in the actual PowerPoint file? This whole thing is just bizarre.

Ahhhhh jaysis, sher it could happen a Bishop!

Old Fools should be careful of new tools bad for the health.Why did he destroy the stick ?

In any other profession he would have been fired. Not the church though, why does that not surprise me.

Silvio Dante – ” “Paulie said he wants it known. It’s on him. He takes full responsibility. But that he didn’t do nuthin.””

These muppets just keep shooting themselves in the foot.

Jesus must be spinning in his…oh wait..

liar liar pants on fire

can we please banish the church like patrick did the snakes?

Cardinal Brady should give Fr McVeigh a good kick up the arse!

It just appeared

Ben, unlike many I am well aware that being gay does not = being a sexual abuser and as such I never said that, so I’d rather you do not try and misquote me or suggest I said something I did not.

My point is if this priest was gay then this is perfectly fine and he should not be afraid to just say it, there’s nothing wrong or illegal about somebody being gay yet some people seem to have a laugh about if he was. Such a shame really.

a rabid catholic who happens to be a disgusting bigot. now WHAT are the chances of that.

I couldn’t give 2 flying fandangoes! Nothing surprises me about the catholic church. They are a self serving organisation which has no moral high ground anymore and therefore have lost the right to preach to me. I don’t need anyone to ” act ” as a go between, between me and my god. I’m actually grateful that the so called Christian Brothers beat the living daylights out of me in school. It made me see what religion in Ireland actually stands for, a long time before many others did !!

I’m curious why you find it amusing if he did have a boyfriend?

Surely it’s healther for a priest to be gay and to have a boyfriend then for him not to be gay and to abuse children.

Outside of showing the images by accident to parents and one minor ( one kid apparently was in the room) by accident and handling the incident poorly he’s not actually broken any laws here (with exception of showing porn to one minor on error).

dont care what they do but do care who they do it to.

It was just resting in my account Dougal…..!!!

The presentation of the immaculate contention.pptx

Does nobody have a smidgen of sympathy for him?

I wish if he was gay he would sashay down the main street in a feather boa and stilettos. I’m sure he would be happier.

Did I miss something here? A priest into gay porn. Who cares? I didn’t read that he showed the images to kids (which would be a grave and entirely different matter.) Don’t confuse this with the issue of paedophilia.

Grow up FFS!

It was just resting in my account Dougal….!!

Not sure why this is news tbh…
Man makes technological mishap & inadvertently reveals some rather personal information about himself relating to his sexuality. The fact that he’s a member of the clergy is really supplementary & only compounds the fact that this is surely a private matter for him, his Bishop & his parishioners.
Can’t for the life of me see why non-Catholics would feel the need to comment on this.

Quite confused about how putative liberals or whatever would laugh so snidely at a man because of something so personal.

Oh Stadler that is sooo funny and clever!

In other news, thejournal.ie maintains is relentless campaign against the Catholic church. What’s up next chaps? Another article attempting to subvert the government’s policy on abortion? Or perhaps a hysterical feminist on the war path demanding “equal” pay? I cannot wait…