IRELAND
Daily Mail
By CHRIS SUMMERS FOR MAILONLINE
The Catholic Church in Ireland is considering restricting trainee priests’ access to the internet amid claims that young seminarians have been meeting up using the gay dating app Grindr.
The Church is also looking at ways of encouraging young priests to mix more with women, families and lay people.
Earlier this month the Archbishop of Dublin Dr Diarmuid Martin said he was ‘somewhat unhappy’ about rumours that students at St Patrick’s College in Maynooth were using the app, which he claimed ‘fostered promiscuous sexuality’.
He said he would be boycotting the centuries-old college, just outside the Irish capital, and send students to a school in Rome instead.
The most senior Catholic in the Irish Republic said he made the decision some months ago because of an ‘atmosphere that was growing in Maynooth’ exposed through anonymous accusations in letters and online blogs.
He said: ‘There are allegations on different sides.
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