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I can only hope that none of my parishioners read this<\/a>.\n
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Or, if they do, that it does not give them ideas about their Irish (more or less, sort of, well, if you squint\u2026) minister\u2026<\/div>\n
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I can only hope that none of my parishioners read this. 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