IRELAND
The Irish Times
PATSY MCGARRY, Religious Affairs Correspondent
A number of small protests were staged at entrances to the Eucharistic Congress at Dublin’s RDS today.
Separate protests were staged by abuse survivors, a Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) group, Atheist Ireland and a parent and former Dublin school board member who wants his school named after someone other than former arcbishop of Dublin Dermot Ryan.
At the main entrance to the congress site, abuse survivor Paddy Doyle said nobody was listening to the protests. “Priests and bishops are just walking by,” he said.
It was “offensive” to hold the congress in Ireland at this time, he claimed. “There’s s still an awful lot of rawness out there where the abused are concerned. We’re still smarting…after the Redress Board, all the reports,” he said.
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