Word has reached our clerical ears that our dithering Taoiseach Bertie Ahern got a belt of the crosier in very recent days due to the issue of the age of consent debate raging here. According to our varying sources, the Bertie had originally gone along with the cross-party Oireachtas Committee set up to discuss the issue.
That Committee (of Consent??) had originally concluded in its report that the age of consent for sexual activity be lowered from 17 to 16...
However those bolshie(?) bishops, with 'liberal wishy washy Willie of Killaloe
(pictured alongside) soon torpedoed such a notion by declaring the Government had lost (the irony of this!!) their 'moral compass'!!!
Of course the Bertie who has mastered the art of dithering from both sides of his mouth soon turned and advised that indeed the Purple Parliament were within their right to raise such an issue and it would indeed have to be considered.
Note to the dithering Bertie: On January 5th 1973, the Irish people voted to remove from their Bunreacht (Constitution) the special position of the Catholic Church and recognise all Churches as equals....
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