“People talk about historical sex abuse. There’s no such thing as historical sex abuse. A person lives with it for the rest of their lives.”
Patsy McGarry's career as the Irish Times Religious Affairs correspondent spanned the implosion of the Catholic Church in Ireland. His new memoir details those extraordinary and distressing times. In this podcast he talks to Dion Fanning about why his father stopped going to mass, the bloodless genocide of Protestants in Ireland and the intransgience of the Catholic Church.
