Answers needed - St Patrick’s College

FOR more than 200 years, St Patrick’s College, Maynooth, has been the centre of training of seminarians for the priesthood.

That may be about to change amid disturbing revelations over what Archbishop Diarmuid Martin has referred to as “strange goings-on” there which prompted his decision to remove seminarians from Maynooth and send them to the Irish College in Rome.

His decision comes amid persistent rumours of a gay subculture at Maynooth and has serious implications for the future of Ireland’s national seminary as he is one of four archbishops who are its trustees.