Majority backed Kenny’s Cloyne speech

ENDA KENNY received overwhelming public support following his speech on the Cloyne report, but was also told he was a bad role model for his children and that he would end up apologising to the Pope in the Vatican.

The Taoiseach issued a blistering denunciation of the Vatican in the July 20 speech and, later that month, said he had received thousands of messages in response, including many supportive ones from members of the clergy.

Today, the Irish Examiner publishes a cross-section of those messages, obtained from the Department of the Taoiseach through the Freedom of Information Act. The vast majority of the messages seen by the Irish Examiner were supportive, with several urging Mr Kenny to go further by expelling the Papal Nuncio.