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This report is concerned with the USA but is about a group called the 2X2S and we in Dialogue Ireland have been covering this group here in Ireland for over ten years, visited with their leaders, and also visited one of their conventions?
In another post we will try to make people aware of what is going on in Ireland?
Former members of ultra-secretive Christian ‘cult’ Two by Twos lay bare heinous abuse within the underground sect – accusing the group of harboring sexual predators while allowing them to prey on underage victims
Enoch Burke’s former school seeks fresh court order that could see him jailed for attending premises
Application brought before High Court over former teacher’s alleged ongoing refusal to stay away from Wilson’s Hospital School
(THIS IS A REQUIRED MOVE AS HE HAS EXHAUSTED NOT ONLY THE PATIENCE OF THE STATE, THE SCHOOL AND THE PUBLIC. NOW HE NEEDS A CONCRETE SENTENCE LIKE 3 MONTHS AND A CLEAR DIRECTION FROM THE JUDGE TO UNDERTAKE DERADICALISATION COMBINED WITH A THEOLOGICAL COURSE.)
The school is seeking Enoch Burke’s attachment and committal to prison over his alleged refusal to comply with a permanent injunction granted by Mr Justice Alexander Owens earlier this year. Photograph: Collins Courts
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I am a reputable, experienced documentary film maker with a background covering complex, sensitive topics – for all the major television platforms and broadcasters.
I am currently researching Tony Quinn and Educo and I would really value speaking to people who have direct experience of this person and/or organisation – whether that be in Ireland, the UK or further afield.
So much has been written about Tony Quinn and Educo over the years in the news and online, but I would like to go behind the headlines and hear about your own individual experiences, or an experience of a family member or friend.
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In response to the last post. I found the bravery of that lady very inspiring. I hope that others will write knowing they don’t have anything to fear.
I was in the japa at the very beginning. It was a small group, no teachers or masters and the shop in Kildare wasn’t opened yet. We just had the one master Dennis. There was no pressure of courses or trips to India as Shashi came to Ireland at that time. It was just a simple meditation practice.
What’s such a big shame, the teachings of spirituality and the prayers, are so beautiful. If you used the teachings wisely they could bring you through difficult times and living these teachings everyday could bring you great peace. Unfortunately by the time you are finished with this group you’re allergic to all that spiritual talk and teachings so they don’t help you through the pain and the sickening feeling that is left within you. Like in so many situations it’s the human ego and behavior that ruins it all and corrupts it.
I watched as this group got bigger and bigger and the students become teachers in different areas of Ireland.
Then Dennis took on disciples. It was all about feeding people’s ego, making people feel important. People became more important than others. It became a business and the energy of the group changed. Making it a business and completing leaving the spirituality behind This cause competition, jealousy and bitterness throughout the groups. The mind games and control could then start.
If anyone complained or questioned, you were the world’s worst person with negative entities around you corrupting your energy or mind. You were talked about and shunned from the group.
Then the shop was opened in Kildare and this only became worse. I had left at this stage but I tried to keep in touch with a few women however it was advised not to hang out with people who were not in the group anymore due to them carrying negative energy.
I was an older lady, very content in my life. I was simply there for prayer, spirituality and friendship. I had been a person that went to church but over the years had pulled away for obvious reasons.
There were younger women who had careers, money and good looks but there was an emptiness there. A loneliness, a need for a companion.
Mother Tresa once said on the late late show, something along this line,you can give a person water when they’re thirsty, give them food when they’re hungry but the loneliness you can’t help.
Unfortunately this made them vulnerable. Other women had come through broken marriages,trauma and hardship and this caused them loneliness.
All these women we’re looking for a partner, a relationship, a soulmate to build a family with.
They were promised the perfect marriage, the children and the fairytale however only if they are willing to change their energy. Now after all these years I know what that meant. Some of these women were told to return to India numerous times. Maybe even twice a year. Stay by themselves for a couple of week without the groups
Nicola Tallant, three-time awardee of Irish Crime Journalist of the Year, writes on the 50th anniversary of the Sunday World.
Tallant notably exposed the Mucky Messiah Tony Quinn, only to be sought to appear in depositions in Colorado to expose her sources along with Dialogue Ireland Director Mike Garde. Judge Hogan thankfully saw sense and prevented that from happening. Justice Hogan saw that the work of journalism and the work of Dialogue Ireland in assisting the victims of cultism are protected by the Irish constitution.
Sunday World, 7th May 2023
When we read the article we were happy to see Nicola talk about Tony Quinn in the same paragraph as organised crime. Her predecessor Paul Williams spoke at the 2007 Dialogue Ireland “Cracking Cults” conference and gave a lecture in the area of Dublin where Gerry “The Monk” Hutch used to own properties connected to his criminal activity. It was entitled “Criminal Cults”. Initially Paul Williams was not convinced about the link between criminality and cultism but it soon became clear as his talk progressed that he was outlining all the characteristics of Cults in his presentation. So it is no surprise that DI has had a natural connection with the Sunday World. There is no substitute for the photos over text. One thinks of Nicola Tallant stalking poor Tony Quinn in Monte Carlo, or the photographers given intelligence that Christina Gallagher was arriving back at Dublin Airport from an Italian pilgrimage as a woman of deep spirituality and simplicity. Suddenly she looks well groomed and has her expensive Gucci bag attached. The photograph tells us the real story. The earliest example was the writer and journalist Jim Gallagher and his amazing book, The Immaculate Deception which is a damming indictment of the fake visionary and money making racket. The book shows cheques made out to Fr McGinnity and we get a clear look at the contradictory life of this woman of prey. He also has a massive series of articles with detailed stories on people affected by the House of Prayer.
More recently Alan Sherry is adding to the work Jim has done with more articles raising serious issues about how Gallagher is able to create a portfolio of properties in Ireland and the USA.
The dark deeds of those who inhabit the world of crime often come about by the same mechanics that coerce and manipulate those who fall prey to religious, commercial and political cults. Tallant writes in the article of “the fabric of society and community and the inequalities that exist for many who are marginalised and who are poor [..] we are actually all to blame.“
Whether we are talking about organised crime or cult-leaders like Christina Gallagher and Tony Quinn, we are talking about organised criminality; groups of people who are not always acting in their best interests, but whoever is at the top. And it is most likely the case that those at the top benefit, whilst those at the bottom suffer and are punished.
Here Tallant shares her memories and why the Sunday World is an important publication in Ireland.
Darker side: How the Sunday World’s relentless investigations are a thorn in the side of gangsters
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