Lesbian Nuns and gay Priests: From The Late Late Show to Maynooth

Páraic Kerrigan, a PhD Candidate in the Department of Media Studies at Maynooth University, suggests the recent Maynooth 'scandal' implies that some have not kept pace with changing attitudes to sexuality in wider Irish society.

THE recent Maynooth ‘scandals’, to use the convenient media shorthand, seems to suggest that despite the major progressions surrounding LGBT rights in Ireland some attitudes remain relatively unchanged.

In particular, this remains the case for the more conservative pockets of Irish society and especially the Catholic Church.