envoi

And so Archy Week comes to an end at The Heelers Diaries.
We've shared a few good times.
Had some larfs.
Maybe even learnt a thing or do.
It's been hectic.
Sometimes it was hard to keep up.
Over the course of the week we've been deliberately misquoted by Archy fans on Twitter.
We've had one of our articles illegally purloined and published on a vituperatively anti Catholic website in Australia.
We've even started receiving ye olde obnoxious unsolicited phone calls again.
Haven't had one of those since I suggested that newly deceased Secretary General of the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs Padraic McKiernan had been appointed Ireland's ambassador to the afterlife.
O tempera o mores, as we do say in the pro Catholic trade.
But at the end of a momentous seven days of rollicking roistering pro Catholic fun, the fact remains that infiltratring pseudo progressive Archbishop Diarmuid Martin is still an Archbishop.
A week as special guest star on this website hasn't hurt his career at all.
Clearly I'm not as influential as I thought I was.
Archy is constant as the northern star.
Constant was he that a generation of Bishops should be labelled concealers of child abuse by his allies in the anti Catholic media.
And constant does he remain to keep them so.
As for the loss making anti Catholic media groups to which Archy has hitched his star.
They too show signs of being able to continue as before, in spite of my magnificent withering satire.
True, Independent Newspapers has no readers and owes its creditors two billion quid.
True, the Irish Times has no readers and loses a hundred million bucks a year.
True, RTE has no viewers and exists only because our corrupt kleptocratic Fianna Fail government forces us all to finance it whethere we consider its programming inimical to our values or not.
But they're all still out there.
Just about.
As for me, I am off duty forever and am going to bed for a week.