Priest who was more than his sins

ACCORDING to your columnist Diarmaid Ferriter (September 6), Fr Michael Cleary was “the obnoxious hypocrite, always a fraud, far more interested in his own profile and feeding his gargantuan ego than in showing any humanity towards the people he wounded ...”

Diarmaid Ferriter’s column overflows with absolute certainties and damning judgments of character.

At times, the unwary reader might think he or she was reading about a war criminal.