Ireland closes Vatican embassy to save funds

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http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2011/11/2011113232558281215.html


Minister says decision made in bid to meet bailout conditions and denies move a result of fraught relations with church.


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He said a review determined that Ireland's embassies to the three countries offered the least returns in foreign investment and denied that Dublin's weakened relations with the Catholic Church, which governs the Vatican state, played a role in its choice of cuts.

"The government believes that Ireland's interests with the Holy See can be sufficiently represented by a non-resident ambassador," Gilmore said, suggesting that a diplomat based in another European country would be assigned the Vatican brief too.

Gilmore says Ireland will move its Italian embassy into the villa currently used by its Vatican staff, a move that could save Irish taxpayers about $3.3m annually.

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In Rome, Italy's capital, the Vatican likewise dismissed concerns that the Irish were sending another rebuke to the Catholic Church over its cover-ups of decades of child abuse in Ireland.

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its good to see Ireland working its way out from under the pricks at the vatican

[Angry Dragon]

1. Perhaps it is past time for the Catholic Church to decide if

they are a religion or a country.

If they are a country then I think that it is illegal for American catholic churches
to be sending money to support a foreign country.

[demosincebirth]

2. Aljazeera? great sorurce

[redqueen]

3. Yes, it is a good source. (nt)

[demosincebirth]

7. Fair and Balanced, just like another news source

[Ichingcarpenter]

9. What you don't know how to google

geez....

[Rebubula]

4. Well...

...that certainly is an ignorant response.

I advise you to start looking at the AlJazeera network and compare to other news organizations. I suspect that you will find that they are as good as any other out there.

Do not believe the hype that surrounds you all the time.

[closeupready]

6. Hillary Clinton thought so, too, when she said Al-Jazeera was doing a better job than

most of our MSM is. Last year, before Congress.

[Ichingcarpenter]

8. You are full of dew...... I posted the same story earlier

except it was an Irish source.


WTF Is Your condescending Point.?

[ellisonz]

11. Al Jazeera does great journalism.

Even in regards to Israel.

[mmonk]

5. Ireland?

Wow.

[Ichingcarpenter]

10. The head of State is now a socialist poet.

The left won in the last election two weeks ago.

[ellisonz]

12. Good for Ireland.

"I confess that I do not see what good it does to fulminate against the English tyranny while the Roman tyranny occupies the palace of the soul." - James Joyce