The money was just resting in my account.
We all have our favourite priests in Father Ted, we’ve even ranked them here, but I’ve often wondered what would happen if you could combine the personalities of the most depraved priests to visit Craggy Island?
In my mind, I’d take Father Ted’s love of the bright lights and party lifestyle in Wexford, Father ‘the Cuban lad’ Hernandez’s sense of style, Fintan Stack’s sheer disregard for authority (he’ll put your head through the wall) and Father Billy ‘Spinmaster’ O’Dwyer’s rampantly corrupt ways.
He never could handle that gambling addiction hence the fact he bought 2,000 raffle tickets.
It seems that we’ve a new candidate for the world’s biggest eejit of a priest though after a clergyman in Italy was suspended after being caught spending £70,000 of church cash on holidays, two sports cars, a skiing holiday and a break at a Mediterranean beach resort.
A police spokesman has said “Fortunately we managed to stop him before he had spent too much of the money. We have taken back all the goods we can, but there’s nothing we can to reclaim what he spent on holidays and cosmetic surgery.”
This might be the biggest scandal to hit the clergy since Father Ted flew to Las Vegas instead of helping that poor girl who was supposed to go to Lourdes .
Mad stuff, Ted.
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