Maynooth crisis: Excessive drinking and promiscuity 'in the air for decades'

'None of this is new,' says former lecturer at St Patrick's College.  A former lecturer at Maynooth has claimed "excessive drinking and dubious sexual practices" were in the air for decades at St Patrick's College. Mark Dooley, a former philosophy lecturer at the seminary, yesterday claimed the culture in Maynooth was "all-pervasive" amongst staff as well as students.

"One was almost expected to conform to this culture and if one expressed any desire to be faithful to one's vocation, one was made to feel like a pariah," he said.  Mr Dooley explained how he had been approached by a number of students in 2010 who asked him to sit down because they had a things to "get off their chest".

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