A floating church owned by controversial Tridentine Bishop Michael Cox sank off the Aran Islands last year after it went on fire, an investigation has found.
However, the Marine Casualty Investigation Board says that because the hull of the 82-foot ‘Patriarch’ was so badly burned, it is not possible to conclude satisfactorily that an electrical fault had been the cause of the fire, which broke out on board the vessel on September 1, 2004.
“I had consecrated the boat as a floating church and it was my plan to travel around the coast and challenge the abortion ship which offers abortions,” said Bishop Cox.
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Writer, photographer, environmental campaigner and "known troublemaker" Dave Walsh is the founder of Blather.net, described both as "possibly the most arrogant and depraved website to be found either side of the majestic Shannon River", and "the nicest website circulating in Ireland". Half Irishman, half-bicycle. He lives in southern Irish city of Barcelona.
Presumably the insurance company will treat it as an Act of God.