Well it certainly looks as though some of the i’s have been dotted and some of the t’s crossed at St Bede’s College in Manchester, where skullduggery has been the order of the day for the last five months at this once famous school. Ever since the Independent Schools Inspectorate […]
St. Bede’s College
Justice? Big Money and Big Pharma.
Well hello good reader and I apologise, it is three weeks since my last confession, three weeks in which a lot has happened to me and during which time I have learnt a lot. Three weeks ago I caught a plane to Manchester. My main reason for going was to […]
St. Bede’s College in Manchester and the Salford Diocese – Part 2
One of the real sad things about Pannone’s settlement in the case last week against the Salford Diocese is that because of the settlement there was no publicity and so St Bede’s College and the Salford Diocese did not get the hammering they deserved. But before I go any further […]
St Bede’s College in Manchester and the Salford Diocese
I do not know how many readers knew, but in our struggle with the Salford Diocese over these last four and a half years for them to recognise the sexual, mental and physical abuse that abounded at the College during the aegis of Monsignor Thomas Duggan (1950-1966), two court cases […]
The Case Against The Salford Diocese, Monsignor Thomas Duggan and St Bede’s College in Manchester
Well events are coming along nicely in the case of alleged abuse of pupils by Monsignor Duggan, Rector of St Bede’s College from 1950 -1966, 16 years when unbridled sexual abuse of young boys was an everyday occurrence in the life of the College. Carefully picked and even more carefully […]
The Reality Of St Bede’s In The 1950s & 1960s
People recently have been remarking on the language used in my blog postings and how it offends some and puts them off attaching to my ideas. Well I feel very sorry for having offended their honourable dignities but feel that I do not really want to attach myself to those […]
Egos Obliterated At St Bede’s College In Manchester
Well there it is in black and white the latest drip from the stalactite of chaos that is St Bede’s College in Manchester. With the expected but yet still surprising departure of Monsignor Michael Quinlan, erstwhile chair of governors of St Bede’s College, minds will begin to ponder and try […]
Danny Kearney’s Attempt To Right A Wrong
The article below was brought to my attention by St Bede’s veteran, Michael Lawlor, now a resident of the state of Ontario in Canada, but part of the 1947 intake at Bede’s making him one of my oldest correspondents. The article appeared in this week’s Tablet newspaper and shows Kearney […]
BBC On St Bedes Last Night
Well it has all been happening rather fast on the Bedian front since I wrote my last posting on 17th January 2014 entitled Even More On St Bede’s College In Manchester. That same day the Senior Deputy Headteacher as she now calls herself, the honourable and elegant, Sandra Pike, wrote […]
St Bede’s Opened Up
http://isiservice.devprocess.com/DownloadReport.aspx?t=c&r=GRT6928_20131112.pdf&s=6928 Well it has been made public and the above link will take you there. It is a damning indictment of the leadership of the School and in the areas that you would have thought most attention would have been paid. What surprised me was how much the school had […]