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Woman denied entry to church

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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,188 ✭✭✭DoYouEvenLift


    Good for her!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,358 ✭✭✭Aineoil


    And this is based on you seeing / hearing this personally, rather than hearsay locally, yeah?

    It's a small village and people talk.....One person I know saw the incident.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,707 ✭✭✭whatismyname


    Aineoil wrote: »
    It's a small village and people talk.....One person I know saw the incident.

    Cool. So all still just hearsay then, and we're none the wise really either way.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,052 ✭✭✭Un Croissant


    Terrible. Dont blame her for being in a sulky mood. Amiright?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,489 ✭✭✭omerin


    Pawwed Rig wrote: »
    Obviously we do not know the full story here as anything could have happened prior to the start of the video but the priests smug attitude doesn't do him any favours. Not sure why he would stop a traveller going into a church as whatever their other faults they tend to be fairly pious folk.

    lol


    mutton dressed as mutton, nothing to see here, let's move on


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,126 ✭✭✭Reoil


    While the dress appears to be "figure-hugging" I think it might look different in real life rather than through a (vertical :rolleyes:) iPhone video.
    That said, at my parish, if people can get away with wearing a Liverpool top, for example, I don't see why she wouldn't be allowed in.

    I think there is more to this than is let on...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 19,889 ✭✭✭✭The Moldy Gowl


    Aineoil wrote: »
    I live in Ennistymon. The Communion was on Saturday. It was just about the dress. The guards were called as well.

    Thanks for continuing to tell the rest of the story.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 518 ✭✭✭FluffyAngel


    Same here with me too, or at least I hope I would be,

    Not quite a fan of this business of pulling out the video phone.

    In this case, I don't get the point to it anyway, as it shows nothing more than a woman getting mouthy and having a go at a priest. The rest is left to our imagination.


    Neither am I a fan of the phone pulling out
    But I remember what happened when they have been pointed at people who covered up crime ( I'm thinking police USA )

    Getting back to the post , I think it's the smugness and the line .. "Tell them I laughed at you "
    Is about power and control

    The fact it was a communion day and could have been dealt with better ( a quiet word saying to consider covering up or maybe next time hand out the guidelines)

    Im sure the priest knows his flock well enough and indeed if he is aware of the different groups of children making communion ( I'm guessing he directs or the ethos of the school is Catholic) which could have allowed him to say discreetly to parents what's expected of that was his need

    I was watching pentecost sunday services on the bbc this morning and it struck me as welcoming and inclusive service and had many different types of people in all different type of clothes from all over the planet


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,598 ✭✭✭✭Aidric


    'I have tax and insurance on that car'...lols

    What's that got to do with her predicament?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,358 ✭✭✭Aineoil


    Thanks for continuing to tell the rest of the story.

    There isn't any more to the story. It was about the dress being too short.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,208 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


    The real crime here is that it was filmed in portrait mode


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,707 ✭✭✭whatismyname


    Aineoil wrote: »
    There isn't any more to the story. It was about the dress being too short.

    But my mate was there and said differently, as were some of my other mates and that's not what they said :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,358 ✭✭✭Aineoil


    Reveal all then.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,373 ✭✭✭✭foggy_lad


    Aineoil wrote: »
    Reveal all then.
    That was the priests main concern about the dress.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,116 ✭✭✭RDM_83 again


    bluewolf wrote: »
    they used to not let you in if your shoulders weren't covered sure

    Still do in lots of mainland europe AFAIK, been ages but its hard enough not to think about sex in mass without some wicked harlots seductive shoulders and delectable knees tempting your mind away from righteous thoughts :-P


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,502 ✭✭✭✭Pawwed Rig


    psinno wrote: »
    Going to church isn't a right.

    It is actually.


  • Subscribers Posts: 19,421 ✭✭✭✭Oryx


    Lady: I have a divine right to enter this church!

    Priest: You have a divine left too, but youre still not getting in!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,281 ✭✭✭mackeire


    Next video is of her and her family calling out the priest and his family.

    Up Joyce!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    Pawwed Rig wrote: »
    . Not sure why he would stop a traveller going into a church as whatever their other faults they tend to be fairly pious folk.

    Well except for the 8th commandment


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,612 ✭✭✭✭meeeeh


    I saw only part of the film and she is saying 'us' women so there might be more if them around.

    Personally I don't give a damn about the inappropriate clothing in church but some Travellers are responsible for serious crimes against good taste. So I think that priest is actually my hero. :D


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,637 ✭✭✭brightspark


    In Rome and most of Italy both shoulders and knees must be covered.

    Also applies to men, no shorts allowed! So it's not a sexist issue.

    That said I saw far worse today at mass, one girl had a skirt that wouldn't have been out of place in a strip club.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,439 ✭✭✭✭One eyed Jack


    It's probably my imagination (but I'm going to blame the video quality anyway) but I'm wondering is it the perception that the dress is practically see-through and that you can see at least she's wearing underwear? :confused:

    She really doesn't do her own case any favours with her attitude, and if those retorts on the youtube video are directly attributed to her, then she needs to wash her mouth out with some soap and holy water! :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,499 ✭✭✭Carlos Orange


    Pawwed Rig wrote: »
    It is actually.

    It isn't in the sense that those words apply to this conversation.* You are free to believe in whatever religion you like but that doesn't mean churches are obliged to let you be a member.


    * laws are strange and voluminous things , feel free to reference a law if you disagree


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,167 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    Not tonight, love. Members only.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,227 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    My shop, my rules.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,612 ✭✭✭✭meeeeh


    In Rome and most of Italy both shoulders and knees must be covered.

    Also applies to men, no shorts allowed! So it's not a sexist issue.

    That said I saw far worse today at mass, one girl had a skirt that wouldn't have been out of place in a strip club.

    I wasn't allowed into quite a few churches in Italy and I think France because I was not properly dressed when sightseeing on holidays. I'm not a church goer but I wouldn't go to opera in track suit so I really don't see the problem with enforcement of certain dress code.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,439 ✭✭✭✭One eyed Jack


    Fr_Dougal wrote: »
    Not tonight, love. Members only.


    *snigger*, no surprise there Father :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Galwayguy35


    Ah she'll get over it, nobody died.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 919 ✭✭✭Joe prim


    What's Fat Pat's take on it, for or agin?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,071 ✭✭✭Grab All Association


    Should we all be racist now? What's the official line the church has taken on this?

    Only, the farm takes up most of the day, and at night I just like a cup of tea. I mightn't be able to devote myself full time to the old racism.


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