Brother Shawn, Father Sylvester and Brother Martin are from America.  Father Paulus is from Germany and Brother Seraphim comes from France.  These are the Franciscans who moved into Moyross, one of Limerick’s most troubled areas, where crime is rife and violence, including murder, is common, as are drug dealing, teenage pregnancy, poverty and deprivation.

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You might have heard of the recent Fitzgerald Report on regenerating a number of troubled areas in Limerick. Squid included some local reaction to it, including this gem from a Father Pat Hogan, who’s based in the Southill area.
Where you have acute income poverty, you have poor literacy, truancy, poor parenting skills and all [...]

Lyndon B Johnson was not a man to trifle with. Lyndon B Johnson had a direct way with words that many today would find offensive. This was the man who famously said of Edgar J Hoover, “better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in”.
In the late sixties, [...]

Suppose you had just tried to murder a couple of kids by setting fire to the car they were in. Just suppose, now. Hypothetically speaking, so to speak. Suppose you were a filthy inbred fucking skobe who had poured petrol on a car and set fire to two babies. And suppose [...]