Religious Cleric Issues Fatwa over Cowen Paintings

A prominent Mullingar cleric yesterday announced a €1m bounty for killing the artist who drew the Brian Cowen nude caricatures. Father Pat Fitzgerald of the Sacred Heart parish in Mullingar, and a leading figure in the local Fianna Fáil Cumann, issued the unexpected fatwa in the parish newsletter...

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Religious Cleric Issues Fatwa over Cowen Paintings

Religious Cleric Issues Fatwa over Cowen Paintings

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