Gay sex atmosphere growing in a priest training college...

Ireland's oldest seminary, St Patrick's college Maynooth, is said to be plagued with sexual harassment, a culture of gay sex and the use of the gay dating app Grindr on the campus. 

It is said there had been “poisonous” claims contained in anonymous letters about sex scandals at the college.

According to the archbishop of Dublin, "...there is a homosexual, a gay culture, that students have been using an app called Grindr, which is a gay dating app, which would be inappropriate for seminarians, not just because 

they are trained to be celibate priests but because an app like that is something which would be fostering promiscuous sexuality, which is certainly not in any way the mature vision of sexuality one would expect a priest to understand.”

Dublin's archbishop

Dublin’s archbishop is to stop sending students to St Patrick’s College over these claims.

Founded in 1795, the college was once the largest seminary in the world.

It was built to train 500 trainee Catholic priests every year but numbers have dropped to about 60 in recent years with a fall-off in vocations.