Second point; Controversy? What controversy? I don’t believe e-v-e-r-y-t-h-i-n-g I read/see – do you?

And for a very good reason. Journalists lie for a living – I should know, I am one. Really good film editors can say anything they want; I know – I have.

Don’t be so bloody stupid you people…and get on your moral highhorses. You can twitter and tweet all you like, but its shite if if its not right.

I will recant when your accused is found guilty, and will only add that I write now because I find this whole issue so bloody pathetic until substantiated.

For a more balanced and truthful account, I would recommend all those capable to go to the Beo.ie interview with the poet.

Let me get this right; if O searcaigh had been born a Christian Brother, into a different era, and without notoriety, into a communist community that ran children’s homes, he would have been treated differently by the hypothetical media that existed at that time?? No shit Sherlock! (I think we have in you a real-life Jessica Fletcher on our hands here).

What you are trying to do here, is to lob all the objects of your frustration into one dubious category and find a common moral denominator in the media. This is neither useful nor clever.. in fact it’s pointless.

Clerical abuse of children and adult sex tourism are two completely different issues that require a sophistcated degree of knowledge to untangle. (Knowledge might I add, that you are clearly don’t have).

Its stinks of a really unflattering ‘them and us’ mentality and is probably born out of insecurity and frustration? Its the proverbial unflattering chip-on-the-shoulder.

A poet writes poetry, a priest teaches religion.. how can they possibly be lobbed in together with the general media and called ‘their own’. What do you mean by that?

Additionally, it is narrow-minded and not very ‘post-modern’ to assume that the media influence or generate any morality in or for the people.

In fact, there is a strong academic argument.. including a whole culture of reality TV, that strongly suggests that all the media is actually doing, is reflecting back to us… Consider that.

The media response to the two is the same….an inability to call a spade a spade when ‘one of their own’ is in the frame.

The Catholic Church Sex Abuse Scandals and the debate around sex tourism and western power in the East, are two completely different, complex, issues.

In fact, can i take this opportunity to highlight that this sort of carelessness in z-list journalism is what undermines the anti-o searcaigh arguments and exacberates intelligent debate.