Have you ever been to Listowel? No, me neither. After the scenes that occurred in a Kerry district court earlier this week I and quite few people in this country have no intention of willingly going there in the future.
What happened was that just prior to the sentencing of one Danny Foley a 35 year old bouncer from the town who was found guilty of raping a 24year old girl from the town. That fifty, mainly men from the local community marched up in single file and shook his hand and hugged the prisoner, right in front of the distraught and shocked victim.
As well as that the local parish priest, who had come out of retirement to cover sick leave in Mr. Foley's parish appeared as a character witness for him. He has since been forced to step down from his duties and the diocese has issued a statement distancing it's self from the priests comments and actions. This in a time when the catholic church in Ireland is embroiled in the aftermath of the recently published "Murphy Report" on child sex abuse by priests in the Dublin diocese.
If you're a resident of Listowel or know someone from the town, I as well as yourself would like to know what type of misguided town do they live in. That stands up to publicly promote the perpetration of the sexual assault of women as a good thing.
Sexual assaults are the work of warped evil miscreants who have no place in society, no ifs, no butts if you force yourself on a member the opposite sex you get whats coming to you. If you support this man then your no better then he is, if he was my brother or cousin or a friend I'd quickly distance myself from him.
People like this are generally not one off merchants, if they can do it once they will do it again and again, whenever the opportunity arises. So the sight of fifty people glad handing you like some winner of a competition and slapping you on the back like some returning prodigal son just gives the many other sexual deviants out there more cause to go out and continue their sick and twisted activities. Oh but these morally misguided individuals would probably be the first to go screaming foul if one of their kids was sexually attacked and the same scene took place in front of them.
Listowel residents, hang your heads in shame. In one foul and sickening swoop you have undone all the good work of one of your most famous sons, the playwright John B. Keane. Who put Listowel on the map. He must be spinning in his grave at how badly you've tarnished the towns good name.
As for Mr. Foley he got seven years, a pitiful sentence for the crime. Twenty five may have been more fitting, but people will argue that is only given to those who murder. Mr Foley has to all intents and purposes taken the victims life away and ruined it for her, he has also been aided and abetted by his fifty filthy minded cohorts, who think themselves morally superior to the rest of us.
We also learn in the media that his fiancee is sticking by him and claims he is not the man portrayed in court. My dear you need your sight testing as well as your moral compass. As stated earlier in this piece, if I was you I'd drop him like a hot potato and never want to set eyes on him again. A leopard never changes his spots, whether it be even after seven years or twenty years, also he's tainted and damaged goods now, a convicted sex attacker who will go on the sex offenders register on his release.
Finally, it's been alledged that within 24 hours of starting his sentence in Portlaoise prison in the midlands. That Mr. Foley requested a transfer to a Prison in the south of the country so that he maybe closer to his family... Er... A word of advice, it doesn't work that way. You don't take advantage of a poor innocent young woman, wear a sickeningly cocky grin all the way through your trial, then start to play the poor innocent little boy bit when you enter prison and reality sets in. Reality should have set in when you set out on this course of action that has led you to where you are tonight. Also let me reiterate, if your family has any sense they'll oppose the request and want you as far away from them as possible... Out of sight out of mind.
Happy Christmas and good riddance Danny Boy...
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