Friday, January 2, 2009

Who is Francois?

In the MMM, there is an Irish 'priest' going by the name of Francois. Strange name for an Irishman? Well, of course that's not his real name as you see he's in hiding and is in fact married!!! To a woman named Barbie!!!

So who is he? Well, he's none other than Fr Dermot Forkin, the former Spiritan priest referred to in Mike Garde's thesis (see the link at the left of the page). Mike Garde seems to have lost track of him in 2005 but ol' Dermot, sorry, Francois has managed to slip back into Australia and marry a woman in order to stay in the country. This seems to be what a lot of the Irish are doing....