http://www.irishcentral.com/topics/Tanaiste IrishCentral Tanaiste en-us http://www.irishcentral.com/story/news/danny_boy/vatican-taoiseach-tanaiste-criticisms-unfounded-129242413.html http://www.irishcentral.com/story/news/danny_boy/vatican-taoiseach-tanaiste-criticisms-unfounded-129242413.html Sun, 04 Sep 2011 07:00:16 PDT
In its long-awaited response to Prime Minister Enda Kenny's firebrand speech in parliament this summer, the Vatican has called 'unfounded' the government's accusations that it attempted to frustrate enquiries into rampant sexual abuse in Ireland, while making a tepid acknowledgement that it 'shares' in and understands the widespread public anger ignited by the damning Cloyne ReportArchbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin has quickly jumped on the PR bandwagon, calling on the Taoiseach to substantiate the allegations of frustrating the criminal process which he accused the powers-in-Rome of earlier this summer, but both Kenny and the government have refused to budge from their original positionsIt's not exactly the stuff of high diplomatic drama, but the weak response from the Vatican - the product of 'consultations' between recalled papal nuncio Giuseppe Leanza and the Holy See - will do little to improve the Vatican's badly damaged image in Ireland, and continues the lengthening cooling off between the two sovereign powersArchbishop Martin's call on the Taoiseach to explain the reasoning behind his accusation that the Vatican tried, effectively, to frustrate sovereign criminal investigations, also seems pathetic: the Archbishop surely had access to the Report at the same time the rest of the country did, but only seems to have been able to muster the courage to point out the 'flaw' in the government's response to the document once given the green-light by the puppet-masters in Rome READ MORE ]]> http://www.irishcentral.com/story/roots/ireland_calling/a-gutless-first-100-days-for-new-irish-government-124344048.html http://www.irishcentral.com/story/roots/ireland_calling/a-gutless-first-100-days-for-new-irish-government-124344048.html Wed, 22 Jun 2011 05:35:04 PDT
Taoiseach Enda Kenny and Tanaiste Eamon Gilmore at a press conference last week to discuss the government’s first 100 days in officeLast Friday the new Irish government reached its first 100 days in office Like in the US when a new president is in office, this is traditionally the point at which the media in Ireland assesses performance READ MORE ]]>