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I thought the Galloway stuff was funny, this has had me on the floor! Half inched and slightly re-written from the BBC News site. I’m sure that Catholic Priest Martin McVeigh has been victim of a cruel (but effective) joke!

2 April 2012

Priest in ‘indecent images’ row at primary school in Pomeroy

An investigation is under way after indecent images were “inadvertently” shown by a Catholic priest during a presentation at a primary school in County Tyrone. Father Martin McVeigh projected the images contained on a memory stick that he had brought witnh him onto a screen during a meeting for parents in Pomeroy in preparation for First Holy Communion. One child was also present.

Parents said 16 indecent images of men were displayed. The priest said he had no knowledge of the offending imagery.The incident occurred during a meeting at St Mary’s School in Pomeroy on 26 March. The parents said Fr McVeigh quickly removed the memory stick. Although quite how there was time to show 16 images isn’t explained!

“He was visibly shaken and flustered,” said the parents. “He gave no explanation or apology to the group and bolted out of the room. The co-ordinator and the teachers then continued with the presentation. “The meeting continued in his absence, however, the parents who viewed the pictures were horrified and distracted. “Twenty minutes (you can do a lot in twenty minutes)  later he returned, he continued with the meeting and wrapped up by saying that the children get lots of money for their Holy Communion and should consider giving some of it to the church.” Possibly to support subscriptions to specialist web sites and to buy memory sticks.

In a statement on Monday, Cardinal Brady, the head of the Catholic Church in Ireland, said “inappropriate imagery was inadvertently shown by a priest at the beginning of a Powerpoint presentation, causing concern to those present. “This was immediately removed from the screen although most of the priests in the area have had a chance to check it to assess its content.

“The priest has stated that he had no knowledge of the offending imagery. The archdiocese immediately sought the advice of the PSNI who indicated that, on the basis of the evidence available, no crime had been committed. “The priest is co-operating with an investigation of the matter on the part of the archdiocese.”

Look if you can’t show your holiday snaps to your mates what’s the world coming to?

I’m not going to try and hide the fact that I smirked my way into work last Thursday having heard that George Galloway had not only whooped Labour out of what should have been a safe seat but also kicked the Lib Dems into the long grass with them losing their deposit in the process.

Thing is I tend not to take much notice of what’s happening in Parliament and I wasn’t aware that there was a by-election, there’s usually media chatter but (and I can only guess) as it was a safe as houses Labour constituency it was overlooked as we all got lathered up with queuing for petrol, waiting for our invite to Dave’s dinner parties and chomping on hot food at the roadside cafe. So hearing that George Galloway was an MP once more sort of cheered me up until the weather forecast took the shine away!
Now the anarchist web newsrooms are pulling the “victory” apart and dissecting events and quite rightly so, away from the fun filled spectacle of watching Milliband / Clegg / Varsi trying to talk their way out the excruciating embarrassment all its achieved is putting Galloway back in a big house where apart from sound-bites he’ll be able to achieve sod all. Credit where due, he’s an effective speaker, crowd manipulater and more so he’s ideally equipped to convince people that paradise comes with an X next to his name!
The Bradford seat is made up of a massively disenfranchised population and there’s more going on there apart from the anti war stance (and that’s not dismissing public anger at this ongoing obscenity) there’s a wholesale rejection of mainstream politics and its cast of dancing buffoons and it seems out of frustration came the easiest answer, thousands and thousands wanting something different,  someone to lead them at which point the whole question of the ability of people to shape their own futures collectively becomes lost as the winner parades round Bradford in an open top bus. Galloway didn’t achieve that much last time round even with the RESPECT bandwagon being far more prominent before it splintered and apart from the humour that will come of him being there again, regardless of what you think of him, he’s not going to change the world or more to the point he’s not going to change Bradford. He has however promised to save an old Odeon in his new town! So to some, they’ve voted in their own personal Jesus.