Mary McAleese’s bitterness is nothing new, but her comments on Holy Week have brought a fresh wave of derision from social media users.
The former President, who collects a significant state pension each year, is known for her scattered rants against the church.
McAleese, who once bizarrely received ‘Communion’ in a Protestant church, was reacting to the incredibly violent murders of two gay men in Sligo this week when she stated that all ‘Churches are conduits for homophobia’.
The Holy Week attack on the Christian faith has been universally panned as crass, insensitive and even as possibly meeting the legal definition of hate speech.
She was quote by the Independent as saying:
I still think, regrettably, that in a country where religion plays a very, very, very big role and is a huge key influencer of attitudes, I think the churches, and I'm not just talking about the Catholic church, I'm talking about all the major denominations because all of them are conduits for homophobia.
"They all have questions to ask about whether or not, and to what extent, they have been conduits for hatred".
Social media users were united in finding her comments disgusting, ill timed and moronic:
Some called for McAleese to be prosecuted under new hate speech laws.
Others pointed out that the privileged politician does little else except whinge about the church, rather than doing anything to help within it.
Many mocked the fact that her whinge fests are pumped into every Irish household via the government’s propaganda talk show The Late Late Show virtually every Friday, where her droll complaints are repeated again and again and again and again.
Others pointed out that her response to the murders in Sligo was not appropriate.
She will make one of her dozen annual appearances on the taxpayer funded Late Late Show tonight, to drone on about her gripes about the church as she has done on hundreds of occasions previously.
If you are finding it hard to sleep, we recommend watching it to help you to doze off.