Bishop Drennan , the last of the auxiliary bishops of Dublin concerned (in whose diocese I now live, as it happens) will go shortly - or the current Archbishop of Dublin will go instead (for Brutus is...). The real question is whether their delay ("the law's delay", given that two of them were qualified barristers) has done more harm than good. For me? - as a largely disinterested outsider by now - I have little doubt but that they have contributed to the ulitimate demise of the suzerainty of the Catholic (the capital is cultural) church in Ireland. How long it will take for some form of collective psyche to put manners on the "nation" is another question entirely!

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