Managing Cork and fickle fans can make you cynical creature

An old religion teacher of ours sure knew how to make an introduction. 

Managing Cork and fickle fans can make you cynical creature

Welcoming her class of 12-year-olds for the first time, she asked us who among the 30 of us were regular mass-goers, non mass-goers and those who attended for occasions. Because she had no time for those fair-weather Catholics (lapsed Catholics wasn’t her term).

The mistake she made was giving her opinion before calling for a show of hands. There were but a handful of brave kids who admitted they didn’t go. She thanked them for their honesty. The sheepish pick-and-choosers joined in with those who did go and held their lámha suas. When nobody confessed to being an indifferent attendees, she smiled almost with relief.

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