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1. I think that you could have substituted 'Irish' with 'Greek', 'Polish' or whatever on 'Pope doesn't greet Irish PM at Papal audience'.
   It's essentially a non-story. He didn't greet anyone individually.
   One columnist or letter-writer in The Irish Times, I think, pointed out that if Ireland still had a resident ambassador in the Vatican it might have been possible to have arranged a private audience.
   It was Mr Kenny's government that reduced the status of the ambassador there from residential to non-residential. The Labour Party, the junior of the two-party government and that pushed this, still bleats that this was to save money.

   Posted By: Fr Sean Coyle

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