Fucking hell. The rule of law is never going to be strong in Kerry, but this is stunning.
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The only thing I get from the story is that the woman involved might have a reputation, which while it should have no bearing whatsoever on a sexual assault case, seems to have given other people in the small town reason to peddle the myth that she should have expected to be treated no other way. I hope the ground opens up and swallows the whole fucking town up.
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One or two other outlets carrying the story hint at the idea that the group of supporting men were organized by the priest as a favour to the convicted man's mother. It seems it might not really have been a genuine, spontaneous show of support.
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This can be a very depressing country sometimes.
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It should be pointed out that most people in listowel are absolutely horrified by this. The people who were supporting him are from castlegregory and are basically showing local or tribal loyalty, and believe what he said implicitly. What a dreadful dreadful situation
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This can be a very depressing country sometimes.
The priest is all over the shop, though. One minute he says he doesn't think the guy did it, and the next he says 'they were both drunk'; which, to me, means he recognizes that it happened, but it wasn't rape.
Or that she doesn't seem traumatized, and therefor the sentence was too harsh. Fuck me, he's an idiot.
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This can be a very depressing country sometimes.
And now he's gone (the priest).
Why I am not surprised that he had recently retired from a US diocese?
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This can be a very depressing country sometimes.
Danny Foley (35), a nightclub bouncer, Meen, Listowel, was sentenced to seven years with the final two suspended
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