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IN THE watery sunshine of a Dublin late afternoon, Father Steve Gilhooley is directing me by mobile phone to the bar where we are to meet.

As a boy, he was abused by the men who were preparing him for the priesthood.

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Confessions of Priest Who Went to Roam

By Steve Gilhooley
Edinbugh Evening News [United Kingdom]
October 6,

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In August I took a year out from my position as parish priest of Currie, Balerno and Ratho in order to decide my future.

For a number of years up to then I had been suffering the consequences of going public about being abused by clergy at the junior seminary I had attended as a youngster.

Up to that point I have to say that the priesthood for me had been incredible and had taken me down paths I did not expect.

Towards the end of the last millennium I was writing a weekly column for the Evening News, commenting on sport, writing for the Catholic Observer, presenting Thought for the Day for BBC Radio, View from Earth for Radio Forth, script-writing for On and Off the Ball with Tam Cowan and Stuart Cosgrove and speaking at numerous events - all during the same period.

At the same time I was writing the book Pyjama Parade (which included an account of