Stealing Apples from Nuns Orchard

Montage of Feck wrote: »

A very old-school and now strange crime in Cobh where apples were stolen from the orchard of some contemplative nuns. Could the oft lemented act, of thieving from orchards, of older generations be making a comeback?

Tis an old trade , young uns dont or cant do it nowadays.
I was part of a raiding party that hit many an orchard where I grew up.
Skilled operatives knew to have thier customers arranged in advance buying plenty of small bags to sell the apples in locality.
We even had a couple of younger brothers who were part of a diversionary raiding party in order to distract the farmer.
All was going well, till some ol one complained to my mother about the quality of apples we were selling.
Grounded for the summer was the sentence.

We were all at it back in the day.



Good times.

There ya go.

This shocked me to the CORE when i heard it.

Leg End Reject wrote: »

I've yet to meet a nun who isn't a cnut, that's after years of them 'educating' me.

They particularly terrify me when they flap their wings and fly away , oh wait , that's bats .

Montage of Feck wrote: »

Stealing Apples from Nuns Orchard.

As long as they don't make a habit of it

The title sounds like an Urban Dictionary phrase...

everlast75 wrote: »

The title sounds like an Urban Dictionary phrase...

my first thought was that it was a euphemism i wasn't familiar with.

A truly bizarre headline. Why would you steal 10 wheelbarrows of apples? To make cider?

we all know who we suspected when we first heard about it.

Never fear, the taxpayer is stepping in :rolleyes:

https://www.rte.ie/news/munster/2020/0811/1158627-nuns-apples/

Just like they do for all other crime victims... oh wait.

If they're stuck for a few quid I'm sure the Mercy nuns, who own a private healthcare empire worth billions, and don't believe in compensating their abuse victims, could give them a hand.

It actually says in the constitution that the state shall not endow a religion i.e. give it money

Hotblack Desiato wrote: »

Never fear, the taxpayer is stepping in :rolleyes:

https://www.rte.ie/news/munster/2020/0811/1158627-nuns-apples/

Just like they do for all other crime victims... oh wait.

If they're stuck for a few quid I'm sure the Mercy nuns, who own a private healthcare empire worth billions, and don't believe in compensating their abuse victims, could give them a hand.

It actually says in the constitution that the state shall not endow a religion i.e. give it money

I know a nun and I know they get very very little to live off, the church has a lot of money but the nuns don't see any of it. 20 euro to a nun like these would be like 200 euro for you and me.

Hotblack Desiato wrote: »

Never fear, the taxpayer is stepping in :rolleyes:

https://www.rte.ie/news/munster/2020/0811/1158627-nuns-apples/

Just like they do for all other crime victims... oh wait.

If they're stuck for a few quid I'm sure the Mercy nuns, who own a private healthcare empire worth billions, and don't believe in compensating their abuse victims, could give them a hand.

It actually says in the constitution that the state shall not endow a religion i.e. give it money

But they're not giving them money, they're giving them apples

pgj2015 wrote: »

I know a nun and I know they get very very little to live off, the church has a lot of money but the nuns don't see any of it. 20 euro to a nun like these would be like 200 euro for you and me.

They took a vow of poverty, that was their choice, and they can leave you know.

The orders of nuns which run hospitals and/or have big property holdings are rolling in cash.

Poor individuals, rich organisation - that's how they like it.

Geuze wrote: »

The parish accounts I've read don't indicate that "the church have a lot of money".

They own a lot of buildings that require maintenance.

They also own sh!tloads of prime development land, and have sold hundreds of millions worth of it in the greater Dublin area alone - fcuk knows where that money went because abuse victims got feck all of it.

MrMusician18 wrote: »

But they're not giving them money, they're giving them apples

It's still a cost to the taxpayer.

We can expect a lot more of this sort of thing with FF in government.