NORTHERN IRELAND
Irish Central
By
CATHY HAYES,
IrishCentral Staff Writer
Published Tuesday, July 3, 2012
The county Tyrone priest, Father Martin McVeigh, who showed 16 gay porn images to primary school children, received “rapturous applause” from the congregations of Pomeroy as he took leave of his duties.
In March, McVeigh was giving a PowerPoint presentation, from his USB stick, to a room of Holy Communion children and their parents, when gay porn images popped up on the overhead screen. The meeting was in preparation for the children at St. Mary’s School, in Pomeroy, receiving their First Holy Communion.
Although McVeigh has maintained his innocence, he has been criticized for his actions following the parent meeting. According to the Belfast Telegraph, the priest destroyed his USB stick, which stored the pornographic images in question. He said that these images were not his and he had destroyed the evidence in “anger and disgust”.
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