IRELAND
Irish Independent
By Ralph Riegel and Barry Duggan
Wednesday October 03 2012
A parish priest has slated Taoiseach Enda Kenny as “a dope” over the controversy surrounding his Vatican visit.
Fr Gabriel Burke, a priest in the diocese of Cloyne, Co Cork, also demanded answers as to why “spin doctors” hinted that the Taoiseach was ever going to get a private meeting with Pope Benedict XVI in Rome.
Fr Burke yesterday told the Irish Independent that it was “inevitable” people would interpret the Taoiseach’s constant fiddling with his mobile phone during a speech by the Pope as “bad manners”.
“If he was a true statesman he would have had a well-worded press release that would have said absolutely nothing — but for that you need intelligence. Remember, Indy (sic) is a trained school teacher and only a few weeks ago told us Lenin came to Ireland,” he said.
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