Are you serious? The first bolded passage is not only irrelevant to the main course of the argument, it is unproven and unprovable; and the second is my own suggestion about the significance of Muirchu's undoubted Southern origin on his attitude to Patrick and to Armagh! As for Armagh's claims over Patrick, that is part of a monstrously complex set of problems which I have elsewhere called "brain-boiling", but that Armagh did make such a claim is not in doubt and I described the fact (with quotations) elsewhere, as well as adding an appendix (heavily sourced) on a later, political use of the legend. I swear that I don't even understand your criticism here: should I not publish my own interpretation of facts unless every sentence starts with "I think""?
Re: On scholarship and research