Ballykissangel (TV Series)

Personal Call (1998)

Niall Toibin: Father MacAnally

Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Father MacAnally : Father Clifford.

  [Peter gets up] 

  Father MacAnally : I sometimes wonder, Father Clifford, if your sole reason for coming to this parish was to undermine the influence of the Church. Look at you. Turning your own sacristy into a lodging house.

  Father Peter Clifford : With respect, I haven't had a lot of choice.

  Father MacAnally : Respect! What would you know about respect? What about the respect due to your position as my curate?

  Father Peter Clifford : Brian Quigley has repossessed my house.

  Father MacAnally : You should have found somewhere else to stay! Look, I want to make one thing perfectly clear: I will not allow this state of affairs to continue. You will rent some place, or you will book yourself into a B&B. Either way you will cease to draw attention to yourself in this childish manner, understood?

  Father Peter Clifford : God's sake!

  Father MacAnally : Don't raise your voice to me!

  Father Peter Clifford : Look, it's me who's trying to do a job in impossible conditions, and it's me who has the right to complain, 'cause it's your responsibility to find me some place to live, Father MacAnally. My problem; your responsibility!

  Father MacAnally : Don't you dare take that tone with me! Who do you think you are! How dare you speak to me like...

  [chokes] 

  Father Peter Clifford : Father?