Just after Christmas this year I wrote the draft of a play because I was asked to but now is not required. It is a semi-fictitious account of what was going on at St Bede’s College in the period I was there 1957-1963. It was written as a one woman show and is a draft version, the director and producer… (more…)
As I write, the St Ambrose College in Altrincham’s abuse allegations are multipling as fast as Jimmy Savile’s did a few weeks ago. The allegations began a couple of weeks ago against a former teacher at the school, a 63 year old Christian Brother, by a ex-pupil. Greater Manchester police arrested him and bailed him to appear in court on… (more…)
From my e-mails it is obvious that my regular and long term readers are getting anxious for news. Every day I keep receiving e-mails asking what happened to the Duggan business. After the Bishop’s fart of an apology published in the local Manchester rag on March 15 2011, was that it? Was there not going to be any further probing? … (more…)
With all the palaver being spoken and written about regarding clerical abuse and I hear lots and lots of talk and read reams around the subject but nearly nothing about the lives of the poor victims or survivors as some like to refer to them and how they get through every 24 hours of their living. We hear the apologists… (more…)