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Gabriel Byrne: Girls in miniskirts led me away from the priesthood

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ANTOINETTE KELLY,
IrishCentral.Com

Published Monday, January 18, 2010, 11:00 AM
Updated Monday, January 18, 2010, 11:15 AM

 

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Gabriel Byrne: Says girls in miniskirts led him away from the priesthood
Gabriel Byrne: Says girls in miniskirts led him away from the priesthood

Irish actor Gabriel Byrne has revealed that miniskirts led him away from the priesthood.

Byrne - who plays Dr Paul Weston in the HBO smash series "In Treatment" - was sent to England when he was just 11 to train to be a priest.

However, Byrne said he left the priesthood four and half years later because of his love of women.

"I went down to London during a break and we got on the bus and I walked up the stairs behind two girls in mini-skirts and that was the end of it for me," he said.

Byrne, who was talking on Irish TV at the weekend, also said he was stunned at the amount of drinking going on in Ireland.

"I think we've a huge problem in this country with alcohol and depression, they are often intertwined," Byrne said.

"I walked down Grafton Street a couple of months ago on a Saturday and it was scary beyond description."

"It's really sad to see young people vomiting in doorways".

"There is this plague of binge drinking where the idea is to get as out of it as you possibly can as quick as you can. That's alcoholism. Part of the disease is to remove yourself from reality as quickly as possible."

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Posted by SmartSistahLL on Jan 19, 2010, 12:31 AM EST
Well, he's all man, isn't he? And aren't we glad? To think that all that handsomeness, charm, sex appeal and savoir faire would have been locked up in a seminary somewhere is just unfathomable. I love that he loves women...that's such a good thing in a man. He's a sweetie-pie toward women, too...meet him once in person and he focuses all of that your way...ahhhhhhh (sigh).
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Posted by shrinnkie246 on Jan 18, 2010, 05:49 PM EST
He walked up the stairs behind a couple of girls wearing mini skirts?? This is why he left the Priesthood? Well, that didn't take much. I suspect this was not his calling anyway.
 


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