Man’s abusive priest horror
A MAN has told how an abusive Jesuit priest and teacher made him dress up in tights and then pleasured himself.
Earlier this week, the Jesuit Order named Joseph Marmion and confirmed he had sexually, emotionally and physically abused boys while teaching at Belvedere College in Dublin in the 1970s.
Luke has opened up about the sick teacher’s behaviour. He told Liveline on RTE Radio One: “It would have been 1973 or so. I would have had a reasonably good singing voice and went into the singing class and Joseph Marmion was the priest that was running it.
“He would bring you over to a room that I’d describe as his lair. There was costumes on rails and I remember being brought in and there was a towel on a bench and one on the floor.
“He’d ask you to take your clothes off because we were trying on costumes.
I was 12 or 13 and you’d completely take your clothes off. I did this... innocently thinking I was just trying a costume on.
“He would pull a pair of tights on you. I remember him running his hand up your leg... but then he would disappear behind a screen and then he would come back three minutes later.”
Luke said that until recently it hadn’t occurred to him that the priest was pleasuring himself behind the screen.
Further proof that ITV daytime is eating itself as the Piers Morgan blandwagon rolled into Wednesday’s This Morning hawking its latest wares.
“Phillip, Holly and I in one studio – what more could you want?” Piers asked viewers.
I’d want three things, Piers.
A hefty bolt.
A sturdy padlock.
And someone to sneak Holly out. Incidentally, during the ensuing round of smarm tennis, Phillip asked Piers “What makes you cry?”
Dunno, Pip.
But try “young”, “beautiful” and “gives interviews to Oprah instead” and you could be in the right ballpark.
FEMINIST writer Lady Jane Wilde is set to be immortalised on a stamp for International Women’s Day.
She came to prominence in faminestricken Ireland in 1848 when she wrote an unsigned revolutionary editorial in The Nation.
Jane was a multilinguist, translator and staunch advocate of women’s rights.
An Post’s Debbie Byrne said: “She was a tireless and outspoken campaigner for women’s rights, equality and other causes.
“This year An Post implemented its Diversity and Inclusion strategy, further reducing our Gender Pay Gap to 1.41% in 2020.”
ALASTAIR Campbell was attacked by a driver he confronted for throwing litter in the street.
The former Labour spin doctor revealed the clash on his podcast Football, Feminism and Everything In Between.
He said a “guy chucked paper, sweet packets and fag packets” out of a car.
When he confronted him the man “squared up”.
Campbell, 63, went into a shop but on leaving it saw the man back in his car. He said: “I chucked his litter on his lap. He tried to push me, hit me on the back, and kicked the bike.”
A shopkeeper intervened and Campbell later saw his neighbour Michael Palin in Camden, North London, who told him: “You did the right and wrong thing.”