Ciaran’s Peculier [sic] Blog

Not cold in Longford

On Christmas morning St Mel’s Roman Catholic cathedral was reduced to a mere shell by a raging fire which broke out early in the morning – only hours after the celebration of Midnight Mass there. Such an all-embracing conflagration was shocking and suspicious. A localised blaze, perhaps occasioned by an electrical fault or choirboy dropping an unextinguished fag might have broken out but resulted in purely localised damage. Were there no smoke alarms or sprinklers? So what happened? For my part I believe the inferno was caused by the ghost of poor Anne Lovett of Granard, as a revenge on the mass-goers of the diocese of Ardagh and Clonmacnoise and their bishop, Dr Colm O’Reilly, who were so diligent in attempting the shameful events surrounding her atrocious death, It’s not just the bishops and clergy of the archdiocese of Dublin who are good at covering up the failings of their flock. PP. The reportage of this event on the RTE news site was shocking. It was as if it had been written by a chimpanzee, or a non-native English speaker. No attempt was made to “fold in” Bishop O’Reilly’s statement into a fluid, readable story. Instead each of his statements was preceded by the words: “He said” which was repeated about half a dozen times. But this is yet further proof that if you want to do something really bad the day to carry it out is Christmas Day. There won’t be a journalist working in any newsroom,.