Letters to the Editor: Protesting churchgoers led to Sheehy brouhaha

Fr Sean Sheehy (pictured). File picture

Missing from Allison O’Connor’s take on Fr Sheehy — ‘We may be appalled at the sermon, but Fr Sheehy spouted company policy’ (Irish Examiner, November 4) is was it not for the fact that 30 or so people walked out during his Sunday sermon, some of whom were reportedly heckling him as they did so, there would be no story.

Indeed, a Fine Gael politician in the town ominously suggested as much afterwards. In that regard we owe a debt of gratitude to those courageous parishioners who left St Mary’s Roman Catholic Church