Pee Flynn and the match made in heaven

The bishops were quick out of the blocks last week to smite the proposed referendum on same-sex marriage.

Hours after the cabinet announced that a poll would be pencilled in for 2015, Bishop Denis Nulty spoke for his colleagues when he said that the issue was not about equality. “It is about the very nature of marriage itself and the importance society places on the role of mothers and fathers in bringing up children.”

The importance of nurturing children was not high on the priority list for the hierarchy back in the day when they considered abused children to be collateral damage in maintaining the reputation of the Catholic Church, but at least they appear to have reformed. Or have they? Child protection is now a big issue in the Church, but what of the other attitudes towards morality from a darker age?