Outsourced Memory and Topical Fulminations for the Money-Got Mechanic Age
If you want a laugh, you could do worse than reading the pope’s pastoral letter to the Church in Ireland on the small matter of widespread child rape by Catholic priests and its cover up by the Church hierarchy.
Benedict XVI opens by saying how shocked, shocked, he is at all the child rape and molestation [...]
One of the funny things about the Brady scandal – if you can find anything funny in the systematic and systemic cover up of child rape – is watching the Catholic Church fling away the values its professed to hold sacred, leaving it revealed as the rotten feudal hangover that it is.
For as long as [...]
Why do we allow this organisation to still run schools and hospitals throughout the country?
Why do we allow them to lecture us on matters of morality?
Why do we allow them to discriminate and demonise sections of the population who fall foul of their bigoted faith?
Why do we allow them access to our most important life [...]
Drama and the political relegation division cum retirement home that is the Seanad (the Irish Senate) are rarely mentioned in the same sentence. However, Dermot Ahern’s Defamation Bill managed to put them both on the front page of the Irish Times today:
THE GOVERNMENT lost a vote in the Seanad yesterday on the Defamation Bill but [...]
I was at the Blasphemy.ie public meeting in Wynn’s Hotel in Dublin tonight, along with between 100 and 150 other people opposed to Dermot Ahern’s blasphemy amendment to the 2006 Defamation Act. Many of the crowd were young. A few were overtly nerdy (not that there’s anything wrong with that). It seems extremely unlikely that [...]
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