Talk:St Mary's Church, Navan

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St. Mary's Parish, Navan, dissociates itself completely from this article and invites readers to consult the parish website www.navanparish.ie

I can understand why this was put in by someone. The original article was a heap of nonsense. I have looked through the article and quite frankly only about 2 lines of the text were salvageable. (The rest was some incoherent ramble about gardens, stigmatas and big winds!!!) I've dumped the nonsense and completely re-written the text, with footnotes. I come from Navan so know a bit about the church and its history. (I didn't include though the 'bishop pelted with dung' story. For those curious, the local bishop during the Parnell divorce controversy delivered a bitter rant from the altar against Parnell. Big mistake! Parnell was formerly MP for Meath and Navan was a Parnellite town. So His Grace had the indignity of having people pelt him in his carriage with horse dung. He got into a huff and stormed off, moving himself lock stock and barrel to Mullingar. That's why the bishop lives in Mulligar, but is parish priest still in Navan. He also closed and moved St Finian's seminary and in his rush managed to lose the entire ecclesiastical records of the Meath diocese in the move from Navan to Mullingar.

The current bishop may soon, BTW, be experiencing his own 'dung' incident when a certain story breaks. But Irish people will have to wait a few months for it to come out. Lets say the diocese of Meath is rumoured to be about to be rocked by a revelation. But you will have to wait for the details!!!

Re the line in bold above, next time you come across a complete load of deluded nonsense on the internet referring to your church, re-write it. Don't just post a dissasocation. 78.152.207.229 (talk) 01:19, 15 March 2009 (UTC)