IRELAND
Dublin Live
1 AUG 2016
BY BARRY ARNOLD
Three students will instead be sent to the Irish college in Rome
Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin will be sending trainee priests to study at the National Seminary in Maynooth this Autumn.
Instead, three students will be sent to the Irish college in Rome, reports the Irish Independent.
The decision comes after it was reported that some seminarians have, until recently, been using the gay dating app Grindr.
The Archbishop has denied that his decision is linked to the scandal, stating “I have my own reasons for doing this”.
But he added that he had made his decision “some months ago”.
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