My Trip to the High Court

How we are played, in five easy lessons 5. THEIR SATANIC MAJESTIES                                                                              Smyth  Brendan Smyth was finally imprisoned by our state in 1997, after more than four decades of child molestation and rape. He was first arrested by the RUC in 1991. He fled south at the first opportunity and his trust in the southern Irish authorities was rewarded at first. Then he became a political problem for them.  While on the run, Smyth stayed for the longest time at Kilnacrott Abbey in Co. Cavan, which was run by the Norbertine Fathers. He had a history of protection in Cavan, with the Bishop's secretary and canon lawyer Sean Brady going so far in 1975 as to  - while acting in an 'Ecclesiastical Court' composed of two priests acc...

 How we are played, in five easy lessons 4. BALLS  The Irish parasite class no longer fears scandal. It may even be willing to create scandal for the sake of scandal, given the opportunities for gain which often follow the infamy. Whatever its motivations or none, it knows it will be looked after and that is all it ever needs to know. Being an Irish parasite is a no-brainer.  And nobody does no-braining quite like the FAI. The 2019 FAI  scandal took a while to explain itself, and the central issue of its St. Patrick's Day introduction is still not fully understood. That was a E100,000 bridging loan from its CEO John Delaney to (he and it claimed) keep the association afloat. It was small change for a rich man who would soon get the money back, but it gave him a nice coating of sincerity to weather the yet to be revealed meat of the scandal.  That would happen properly on 6 December 2019, when honest accounts  revealed undeniably criminal misrepresentat...