Caroline O'Doherty meets a member of the church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster

Raised as a Catholic, John Hamill has since found a novel way to protest what he sees as privilege for the "carpenter-based religion", writes Caroline O'Doherty.

Raised as a Catholic, John Hamil has since found a novel way to protest what he sees as privilege for the "carpenter-based religion", writes Caroline O'Doherty.

It is several decades since John Hamill was last down on his knees observing the Angeles or reciting the Rosary, but the words trip off his tongue like he’s ordering his favourite takeaway. Such is the legacy of an Irish childhood which he describes as typically Catholic, only with added prayer.