Thank you, Enda for brave speech

IN more innocent times in 1991, Bishop Comiskey of the diocese of Ferns, said this about the Irish Government: “It is economically and morally bankrupt.”

What did they do, rape children? No, Comiskey was complaining about proposed legislation to make contraceptives available to anyone over the age of 16 years. How thing were to change.

In 2002, Bertie Ahern was asked about child rape with regard to clergy in the same diocese of Ferns; It had just been bannered across every public medium. His reply was this: “I have not been following it at all. It’s really a matter for the Church; it’s not a matter for the politicians. I’m not going to cross politics and religion.”