NORTHERN IRELAND
Irish Independent
By Cormac McQuinn
Saturday May 05 2012
As the parents and children of the sleepy northern village of Pomeroy gather today for this year’s First Holy Communion ceremony, they will be doing so without local priest Fr Martin McVeigh.
A pillar of the community who was highly respected in Tyrone GAA circles, Fr McVeigh has been on “sabbatical leave” after becoming embroiled in controversy after inadvertently showing gay pornographic slides to a group of parents.
Fr McVeigh denies the images were his and the PSNI says he has no case to answer.
But the controversy has refused to go away — with a bizarre series of subsequent events further adding to the intrigue.
These include the theft of a laptop and the circulation of rumours that Fr McVeigh was “set up” by persons unknown.
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