Talk:Eamonn Casey

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A Christy Moore song

I'm listening now to a song about Eamon Casey killing multiple sheepdogs while to driving drunk. Does anyone know what this is based on?

The chorus is "Casey, casey, you're the divil / when you get behind the wheel / It was a sad day for the kerry sheepdogs / when your Firestone's they did feel".

It's a great song "When the poor old pope, he came to Ireland / way back in that holy time / Eamon Casey and Micheal Clery served the mass and poured the wine / Two jockey boys, they'd ride for Ireland / While preaching us morality". There are other jokes in the song about Casey wishing one of Jesus' miracles could turn his wine into water, etc. But what's the sheepdogs story? Gronky 23:11, 9 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Song is by Christy Moore and was written by Martin Egan(I know both of them personally). It refers to Eamon Casey's then penchant for driving fast cars around the roads of Kerry, before he fell from grace. There are also references to Ronald Reagan's visit to Ireland and the death of Archbishop Romero, etc, etc. Very muchly set in the early '80s. I have the songwriter's email address if you *really* want to know more ... - Ali-oops^✍ 06:07, 10 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Dates

The date of Bishop McLoughlin's retirement is given as May 23rd, 2005 on catholic-hierarchy.org. However, this is actually the date that his successor, Dr. Martin Drennan, was appointed and not the date he became bishop. The date of Bishop McLoughlin's retiremant is July 3 when Bishop Drennan's installation took place in Galway Cathedral. Bishop McLoughlin was still bishop until that ceremony took place. A look at any of the local papers that week or a trip to the Galway Diocesan office will verify that fact. Anyway1986 01:24, 3 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Changes 2-11-06

I made the article neater by doing the following changes:

- I created a new section on Casey's resignation using material that was at athe start of the page before the table of contents and material from the former "Press and Popular Reaction" section.

- I renamed the "General Biography" section. (The entire page is supposed to be a general biography). Perhaps someone might be able to think of a better name than "Priesthood" - it was the best I could come up with. I added material to it that was fomerly in the the "Press and Popular Reaction" section beacuse I thought it was more relevent to this section.

- I removed the "Press and Popular Reaction". However most of the material in it is now either in the "Priesthood" section or the "Resignation section".

The article as it was seemed to about the Annie Murphy scandal with only a section about the rest of Bishop Casey's life, rather than being an article about Bishop Casey himself, as the title would suggest. I think my changes have rectified this problem. The Murphy sacndal still takes up most of the page - I don't want to undermine its importance. Anyway1986 01:24, 3 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I like it! Well done on that ... :) - Alison^✍ 01:26, 3 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

- Yer left the funny bit in I see... Albatross2147 03:20, 15 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Unfortunate phrase

When the matter became public in May 1992, Bishop Casey resigned his post. He then left for a missionary position in Ecuador.

Ummmm anyone else think this could be rephrased ?? 213.40.110.233 (talk) 18:01, 9 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]