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Competitive spirit or an explanation for the decline in Irish vocations

8 June, 2007
Posted in: Reading etc.

Email from a friend who works in an international organisation:

“When I was a lickle boy, one would often be asked “are you going to be a priest when you grow up?”, and even from a very young age my reply was that there was only one cardinal in Ireland, and anyway an Irishman could never become Pope, so there was no point in my becoming a priest. Which would tend to suggest that, with such an attitude to nationality-related promotional vacancies, I was predestined to become a[n]….official (notwithstanding the fact that the fact that Ireland would incredibly produce not one but two secretaries-General).”

Very small prize, if you identify the international organisation.

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