Mary McAleese’s challenge to Vatican is a cause for female celebration

It’s an unlikely pairing, I know, but my mind has been drifting between former president Mary McAleese and former footballer Jamie Carragher.

Mary McAleese’s challenge to Vatican is a cause for female celebration

Mrs McAleese has made the most magnificently kick-ass comments about the role of women in the Catholic Church describing it as a “global carrier of the virus of misogyny”, while former Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher was suspended by Sky Sports after being caught on camera spitting at a man and his teenage daughter in a car.

Carragher’s disgusting behaviour has been rightly condemned. He has apologised, doubly contrite he says, because of the presence of the young girl in the car.

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