The gay culture at the national seminary in Maynooth has been an open secret for decades, according to former student priests.
A former St Patrick's College seminarian is the latest to claim the existence of a gay culture within the seminary has been well known in church circles for decades, and that the trustees of Maynooth have long been aware of it. The man, who studied in Maynooth in the 1990s, said there were gay cliques operating within Maynooth and heterosexual students were pressured to say nothing.
http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/maynooths-gay-cloister-an-open-secret-in-church-34943304.html
A former St Patrick's College seminarian is the latest to claim the existence of a gay culture within the seminary has been well known in church circles for decades, and that the trustees of Maynooth have long been aware of it. The man, who studied in Maynooth in the 1990s, said there were gay cliques operating within Maynooth and heterosexual students were pressured to say nothing.
http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/maynooths-gay-cloister-an-open-secret-in-church-34943304.html