Irish-born Priests face theft charges

[The Hallion]

Priests John Skehan (80) and Francis Guignan face up to 30 years in jail on charges of misappropriating $8.6 million from their Florida parish. The money was used to fund lavish lifestlyles including girlfriends, gambling, hobbies and holidays.
Investigators described them as "professional money launderers" who hid money skimmed from collection plates in "secret sluch funds"....Honestly Dougal that money was just resting in my account!
The pair also set up a real estate company called Shag Inc!
You couldn't make this stuff up.
http://www.irishnews.com/access/archive ... SID=571290

[johnfás]

I can't get into that story as I don't have a subscription. There was a very similar story in the press about a year ago, is this a continuation of the same saga or another one entirely?

[locke]

This is typical of the criminal element among the immigrant population. It's vital that we deport these people and everyone else from their country who clearly must be fraudsters too. The application of unchecked and excessive immigration and the subsequent undermining of the dominant position of the catholic church in this country will be the undoing of the social fabric that has held this country together.

Oh what? They were Irish abroad? And priests too? Oh well, they must just be a couple of bad apples then. No need to judge a country on its few wrongdoers.

[The Hallion]

I can't get into that story as I don't have a subscription. There was a very similar story in the press about a year ago, is this a continuation of the same saga or another one entirely?

I'd imagine it's a new one as it from yesterday's paper. If you scroll to the bottom of the page and select 'pdf version' you can usually read it.

[JCSkinner]

This is typical of the criminal element among the immigrant population. It's vital that we deport these people and everyone else from their country who clearly must be fraudsters too. The application of unchecked and excessive immigration and the subsequent undermining of the dominant position of the catholic church in this country will be the undoing of the social fabric that has held this country together.

Oh what? They were Irish abroad? And priests too? Oh well, they must just be a couple of bad apples then. No need to judge a country on its few wrongdoers.

What an incredibly puerile post. These men broke the law and will now face punishment for their criminality. There is absolutely no indication that they were in America illegally. In fact I believe both had been naturalised.
Furthermore, the criminality of these men is of no relevance whatsoever to the issue of immigration to the United States, and by extension, even less relevance to the issue of immigration to Ireland.

[locke]

What an incredibly puerile post. These men broke the law and will now face punishment for their criminality. There is absolutely no indication that they were in America illegally. In fact I believe both had been naturalised.
Furthermore, the criminality of these men is of no relevance whatsoever to the issue of immigration to the United States, and by extension, even less relevance to the issue of immigration to Ireland.

Maybe I should have used a smiley...

[The Hallion]

Did you read all the post Skinner or are you immune to irony?

[JCSkinner]

Did you read all the post Skinner or are you immune to irony?

I'm just unimpressed with that format. Is it supposed to be funny? To satirise the plethora of migration-related threads on this forum? It fails on both counts.
In fact, it's just a waste of electrons, really. And I suspect that I'm merely wasting more by responding, if that's the level of intelligence I'm dealing with.
Why derail a relatively interesting thread about the behaviour of some Irish born clergy in Florida with some irrelevant and pointless twaddle about migration?

[The Hallion]

It's a question of taste Skinner, you didn't enjoy the joke but others will. As the author of the thread I set the tone in a humouress light. What else could I have done given the subject matter? Locke has the right to reply in the matter he/she sees fit; as long as it doesn't contradict me.

[JCSkinner]

It's a question of taste Skinner, you didn't enjoy the joke but others will. As the author of the thread I set the tone in a humouress light. What else could I have done given the subject matter? Locke has the right to reply in the matter he/she sees fit; as long as it doesn't contradict me.

Well, Locke can also contradict you if he/she so wishes too. That's often the point of debate, to thrash out contradictory stances.
I don't see a joke in Locke's post, just a poorly constructed and heavily strained attempt to link the behaviour of two individuals in America to immigration in Ireland. The two aren't linked and I felt the necessity to point that out.
Or perhaps we could engage in a spot of surrealism and see if we can link these two priests to corruption in Seventies Fianna Fail, David Beckham's international soccer career, the Black Death and the current fight for democracy in Burma while we're at it.
Because all of those are about as relevant to the issue of these two priests as immigration into Ireland is.
And either way, Locke is seeking to derail your thread, which as I said, does feature plenty of interest all by itself.