78 thoughts on “Meanwhile, On Bray Head”

  3. Oh beautiful snap fergie, keep waving the rainbow flag for us. See you in the castro soon x

  4. Do the same to the pope’s cross and we’ve got ourselves a Northside vs Southside match with a lot of dribbling.

  14. If *they’re* secure in heir beliefs such a thing won’t bother them – the blasphemers will go to hell.

    However would the people you’re referring to be those famously respectful and tolerant Catholics?

    • If the kind of people that moan about this stuff are going to heaven then i would rather be in hell, heaven would be full of boring prudes, imagine permanently living in the house of that kid from school that wasn’t allowed outside after 7 and who’s idea of a wild session was 3 glasses of ribena.

  18. In fairness, Jesus was technically killed by a “3-Pointer”. And it was “totally nailed”.

  20. This makes me so happy- I have often thought about going up there with an angle grinder but I don’t have the bottle!

    • Oooh you’re so hard! How about you go to Clonskeagh so or the South Circular Road with your angle grinder and start destroying the religious symbols adorning the muslim mosques there? Because they’d take it off you and shove it down your throat. I’m no fan of the Catholic church (in fact I’m an atheist) but the keyboard warriors on here celebrating what is technically vandalism is pathetic…I find religious belief mildly delusional at best but I’m not going to go out of my way to insult someone for their beliefs…

      • I take you point, but…

        Is it vandalism or counterpoint? Insult or examination? Surely, it’s a matter of intention. ‘If” the intention is about opening up to questions, rather than, the wanton debasement of ecclesiastical iconography, it’s s
        Socratic irony rather than unbridled ignorance. It undoubtedly appears closer to the former.

      • No one’s desecrating a church or mosque or private property. Bray Head is nobody’s church and it’s not right that any religious group can stick their symbol up there. Now at least it’s been made into something useful. Might keep the young people off the drugs.

  23. A powerful critique of the commodification of spirituality and the sale of our soul to the grubby dollar, encapsulated perfectly by the symbol of their most debased and corrupted pastime.

  24. ok its funny, for a while, then start thinking its sad that this is how low respect for Christianity has fallen in Ireland. As one of the comments above says… would this same person go and do something like this to
    a mosque/synagogue/temple….and if they did what would the reaction be? shouldn’t we have the same respect for all religions regardless of what we believe or not ?

    • I’m guessing that the dome of a mosque or synagogue aren’t the right shape for a basketball post. Small design detail!

    • “then start thinking its sad that this is how low respect for Christianity has fallen in Ireland.”

      To be fair, they quite deservedly lost that respect, though i suppose you could argue the catholic church is just one branch but it is Irelands largest.

  28. Gas! must stroll around.

    Thank feck I have enough faith in myself to go through life without having to rely on things like massive t’s on mountains with basketball hoops on them.

  29. As a Catholic I’m pretty offended by this. While some people may not believe in God or respect the Catholic church I don’t think it gives them the right to desecrate a symbol I feel strongly about. It’s disrespectful and immature. Whoever it is you will of course be forgiven for whatever offence you cause but please think about the feelings of others before you do something like this again. Let the trolling commence.

    • As has been pointed out already, how come it’s okay to desecrate a mountaintop but not a cross?

      I’m all for tolerance, but crosses on mountaintops is more a symbol of shoving beliefs down other people’s throats than anything else.

      • Thats really it, in a nutshell.
        Yes practice anything you want in your own home, club, group, knitting circle
        but… If you stick it on top of a mountain (a public area) expect something.
        I mean in an alternative universe that could be a scientology icon.
        And (just thinking) of course they,d (the scientologists) would love their
        symbols on everything, like advertising.

        Its fair game.

    • Ah a recovering catholic myself I think an enormous cross suspended over the entire town of Bray without permission whoever happened to live in it is fair game for ridicule. About time the tables were turned.

  33. Why trundle out the old ‘If it was another religion you wouldn’t desecrate it” argument again?
    The reason there is such anger at Catholicism in this country is due to the Theocratic regime our parents suffered – that cross up on Bray Head is a reminder of how the Catholic Church was shoved down our throats and is still shovelled into our children in schools. Its also a reminder of a hypocritical organisation that abused women and children and had a racket going selling baby’s and children; that forced women to stay with dangerously abusive spouses, that shields and enables paedophiles; that edited our fledgling constitution before we ever even heard it.
    This is also an organisation that killed millions (and then took all their worldly goods) during the Witch-Hunts, that had huge vested interests in the sugar trade (therefore slavery), that quenched the light of learning in Western Europe for nearly a millennium … I could go on

  34. Speaking of religious beliefs being ridiculed; as a Pagan, every Hallowe’en I have to endure the debasement of my beliefs during one of it’s most important festivals. The media is full of negative images of Witches, and Pagan Fertility Gods are always depicted as evil, even though Satan is a Judeo-Christian concept, and never had horns, or fertility attributes.

    And Also, this: