Once a priest, always a priest, says Sinead

I WOULD like to rectify an inaccuracy which you printed concerning myself (Irish Examiner, August 13).

Sat, 20 Aug, 2005 - 01:00

Underneath a quote from an interview I gave in Jamaica where I said I would not be alive today were it not for the teachings of Rastafarai, you made the assumption that this means I am a “former priest”.

That label ‘former priest’ is an oxymoron. Once a person is ordained he or she is ‘a priest forever’ and so there is actually no such thing as a former priest.

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