The reawakening of the Father Fortune scandal prompted several people to tell Patsy McGarry further details this week about the priest's abuse activities.
It was a Good Friday maybe 20 years ago, and Father Seán Fortune had a treat for his newly-formed Don Bosco youth club in Poulfur, Co Wexford. He had set up the club after being banned from the Catholic Scouts Association of Ireland for interfering with boys in 1977.
Ordained in 1979, he came to Poulfur in June 1981. His reputation preceded him. "Keep your children from that fella," warned a local teacher. Most did not understand, though, and few then could comfortably spell out what the priest got up to.
In 1984, when Gemma Hearne wrote to the newly-appointed Bishop of Ferns, Dr Brendan Comiskey, about Father Fortune's activities in Poulfur, the most she could bring herself to say about the priest's abuses was that at youth gatherings, "it is believed intimate sexual matters were on the agenda".
In 1983, after the death of Bishop Donal Herlihy, to whom they had also complained, Gemma and her husband Declan went to Dublin to see the Papal Nuncio, Dr Gaetano Alibrandi, about the matter. They also wrote to the Primate of All-Ireland, Cardinal Tomás Ó Fiaich.
In October 1983, Dr Alibrandi wrote to them: "I can assure you that the area of concern is being considered carefully by the Holy See." They have heard nothing from the Holy See, the Nuncio's office or the Primate's office since. Although they also met Dr Comiskey in 1984, Father Fortune continued to wreak havoc in Poulfur until 1987 and elsewhere afterwards.
All that was ahead on that Good Friday 20 years ago, as a father remembered in one of many unsolicited calls from the wounded of Wexford this week.
He had wanted his teenage children to watch The Greatest Story Ever Told on TV that night, but they went to Father Fortune's house instead where they were shown The Life of Brian. Innocent enough now but then on limited release and condemned by Rome.
When their father protested to Father Fortune, he was told he would be refused Communion that night. That man now suggests the priest showed such films to distract the children while he abused others.
It subsequently emerged that the son had been abused by Father Fortune. The father complained to the then priest in Poulfur, who said he would tell the bishop. The following day the priest gave the father an address for the Cork Rape Crisis centre. From that day 12 years ago to this, the same priest has not once inquired about the welfare of the man's son, nor has his bishop.
Other callers told of a man who died in London last year. Fellow seminarians at St Peter's, where he was for four years in the 1980s, told family members much later how he had been abused by Father Fortune and possibly by other priests at the seminary.
In 1987 when Father Fortune was studying media in London, he tracked down the young man, but he fled to France to get away from him. Just before he died, he confirmed the abuse to his family, but they had already complained to Dr Comiskey, "seven or eight years" before.
Another caller said his friend's son had been abused by Father James Doyle in Wexford, who received a suspended sentence for the crime in 1990. The boy's father went back on the drink afterwards and later took his own life. "And what about Monageer?" the same caller asked, as he spoke about the Gahan family there who were ostracised when they complained about the abuse of a daughter by Father Jim Grennan.
There were other stories about other abusers, some convicted, some not, and stories of suicides attempted, some successfully. It seems that some Catholics in Wexford are about to rise again this Eastertide. But there is little talk this time of heroic priests, just accounts of indifferent ones and more and more unsolicited tales of innocence slaughtered.