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THE famously talkative Catholic Church — never short of an opinion or two on anything and everything that goes on in Ireland — remained noticeably quiet throughout this whole Lisbon Treaty referendum campaign.

Could it be that they have a new, modern-sounding mouthpiece in the shape of Declan Ganley?

But one nevertheless that still

espouses the same old predjudices on abortion, women’s rights and homosexuality underneath a well-groomed modern exterior.

Jacqueline Cotter

18 Gortnaclohy Heights

Skibbereen

Co Cork