The Devils Advocate.

Recently I heard a discussion chaired by Katie Hannon on RTE Radio.She was standing in for Joe Duffy.Like Joe she is ,despite her efforts to disguise her feelings,a hater of Catholicism and Catholics.It seems to me that to be a current affairs presenter on RTE you must be anti religious,the more anti the better.

Any how the topic for discussion was the siting of the new maternity on the grounds of St.Vincents Hospital and the virulent pro death advocates of abortion were out in force on the programme heaping their spite and vitriol on nuns.

There was one very decent woman on the show who very properly claimed that the national media had poured hatred and scorn on nuns at every opportunity and gave an example of a nun in her eighties ,who had taken vows of poverty and who lived her life accordingly ,being put off a long distance bus by the driver because she had  no fare mony.

OF  course there was a queue of bitter auld wans praising the bus driver for his actions.

Whether that nun had harmed anyone in her lifetime was neither here or there according to the bitter anti Catholic callers.I t was enough that she was a nun.

Now the most bitter anti religious parties are those on the left.

What they should do is to find out the name of the bus driver and the name of his employer so that all these hateful bigots can dedicate their movements to his honour,from Boylan to Social Democrats to Labour  to the people for profit ,from socialists to the Shinners and all of their ilk.

Their common hatred would surely unite them in anti RELIGIOUS BIGOTRY ON AN INDUSTRIAL SCALE.

I cannot figure out how IRA people who risked their lives for freedom are now so hateful as to back the murder of the innocent unborn.I suspect the those who never lifted a finger in the war are now pulling the strings .Send tham off to Ukraine to earn their stripes.