The High Li Fe Priests ; Affairs with Divorcees... Colossal Debts at Las Vegas Casinos... A String of Holiday Homes (One with Hot Tub)... And How Two Irish Clerics Paid for It All by Helping Themselves Over 20 Years to the Collection Plates of Their Church [Eire Region]

Daily Mail › March 26, 2009

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IRISH priest Father Francis Guinan began a four-year jail term in America last night for swindling his parish out of hundreds of thousands of dollars which he lavished on wine, women and gambling. The 66-year-old from Birr, Co. Offaly, was told by Judge Krista Marx his true victims were those who sat in the pews of St. Vincent Ferrer in Delray Beach, Florida, and gave money week after week..

IT IS a story that is entirely unremarkable.

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The High Li Fe Priests ; Affairs with Divorcees... Colossal Debts at Las Vegas Casinos... A String of Holiday Homes (One with Hot Tub)... And How Two Irish Clerics Paid for It All by Helping Themselves Over 20 Years to the Collection Plates of Their Church [Eire Region]

The impressionable, attractive young woman goes to work for the confident older man, who, beguiled by her youthful charm, sets about seducing her.

Despite his being around 50 years her senior, he wastes no time in wining and dining her, lavishing money on her and even helping her to buy a car.

At the age of 20, he takes her on a trip to meet his family in Co. Kilkenny. The young, naive Floridian accepts. 'I believed the man wanted me sexually because he would tell me all the time that "I lov...

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