The Irish Examiner’s main headline suggesting that the former Minister of Education deliberately sought to keep fire-trap schools fire-trapped is the kind of so-called journalism that gives journalism a bad name.
Frilly Keane
Halloween Hell!!!!
Ah bless
Lilly
Any of you watching George Lee in Dubai? The head on him!
Dong
Not a fan of the sunshine is George
Lilly
Big fan of the bling though.
Mick Flavin
“Finally a DNA database for sex offenders”
This sounds like it’s written from the point of view of a sex offender whose database needs are finally being met.
John
This is what happens when you mix a slow news day with spending far too much time reading the Paper of Record and ingesting the ramblings of “prominent” members of the ACP as Gospel:
“The church has become a big institution, with all the trappings of a big institution.”
Well woopee do! Take a bow! Assuming this quote is accurate, could somebody please get Bat Woman to telephone the Vatican to let them know about this profound discovery that was made in Ireland (and announced in the Daily Mail, no less)?
There’s been a significant upturn in vocations in Ireland (both priests and religious), there are more seminarians in the world today than there were at the height of the Vatican II hysteria and there are many young men and women who are following their calling through today’s church (yes, the “backward” church that lives on in the 21st century church and has a very nice headquarters in the Vatican and a popular smiley fella in charge who doesn’t really say very much at all about the first world gays apart from reassuring them (when pressed at 30,000 feet) that he doesn’t judge, but God does). And how many of these young men and women want to follow in the footsteps of the dying ACP and their women priests/Vicar of Dibley/Frs Tom & Jerry Utopian vision of the future? Any such young people would have the good sense (and intellectual honesty) to join up with some of our Protestant brethren. And best of luck to them I say!
I didn’t quite follow all your points there, I will respond to this:
‘there’s been a significant upturn in vocations in Ireland (both priests and religious), ‘
Upturn since when?
In 1966 (following the end of Vatican II in 1965) 84 seminarians entered Maynooth when the population of the island was 4.3m, last year 14 entered Maynooth (population of the island 6.4m).
The number of seminarians may be increasing fast in Africa but in the developed world (or indeed anywhere with a broad level of wealth & education) ordinations are dropping to nothing.
classter
Even in 1990 there were 252 total seminarians in Maynooth, last year there were 70.
Even if you ignore population growth & reduced standards for applicants, things do not look good.
John
A good weeding out at Maynooth was long overdue. Maynooth is bearing fruit again (praise the Lord!). This time of far superior quality. It’s far harder to get in now. Not like in the “good old days” where you would end up there very quickly if you were i) the youngest son and ii) unmarried.
“Dropping to nothing”. Really?
Of course the vocations in the developing world is increasing. That’s where all the population growth is.
Anyway, do we really need all these priests in Ireland? We have modern communications and transport now. Soon we’ll have super low-cost electric transport. The proportion of Pope’s children (and younger) who go to Mass every Sunday is low (but increasing, particularly among the Pope’s children’s children). And while they’ve been taught it’s cool to turn ones back on the church and be a Trinity rebel like Mary Robinson was back in 1971, there’s still an insatiable appetite for matches, hatches and dispatches.
“Things do not look good”. Really? Things might not look good from the perspective of an aging Irish journalist whose New Ireland Utopia hasn’t quite worked out as planned and is crumbling down after all the promises of the 1960s with nobody (bar the odd feminist studies graduate) to pick up the reins. They, like you, do not see beyond a 50 mile radius of the nucleus of the centre of the universe – Tara Street, Dublin.
It feels nice to know that numbers don’t lie (the number of seminarians in the world). Cold facts, like truth, cut through all the artificial constructs that have been forced down our throats for the last 50 years – lies such as (to name but a few): homosexualist culture, feminism, abortion and “gender theory”. These artificial social constructs, inventions of now-retired feminist academics, have somehow been to released into the general population where believing victims have gone on to do all kinds of things such as: acquire serious disease, suffer irreversible psychological damage, willingly (apparently) get your genitalia chopped off and even death.
Lilly
Oh goodie, is there a knock-on effect? Maybe I’ll sign up to become one of Santa’s elves, I hear he’s taking wimmin this year, wha.
‘Out of touch, out of reach yeah
You could try to get closer to me
I’m in luck, I’m in deep, yeah
Hypnotized, I’m shakin’ to my knees
I gotta know tonight
If you’re alone tonight
Can’t stop this feeling
Can’t stop this fire
Oh, I get hysterical, hysteria ‘
Def Leppard
Enda’s listened to it. A lot
Casey
A breakdown of the cover pictures of these so-called “News” papers:
Mail: Woman wears dress.Women’s clothes the focus of the article.
Express: Same woman wears the same dress. Women’s clothes the focus of the article.
Examiner: Man in scrubs. Clothes not mentioned in article. Two men in suits. Clothes not mentioned in article. Woman who has died in shoulderless attire featured. Clothes not mentioned, because that would be tasless right?
Tielegraph Man in racing driver clothes. Clothes not mentioned in article. First instance of a woman semi-formally addresses although the premise of her article is women have too much choice (oh-ohh) The only other women on cover is acting as a mannequin to back up Daniel Craig advertise the latest Bond film.
Did he stand behind the actress in ‘The girl with the dragon tattoo’ in the promotional ads?
Guardian: Man in football clothes. Clothes not mentioned in article. First instance of an article on an actress where the focus is not on her clothes. Although she does mention wife-swapping. (Immoral woman alert!)
NY Times Man in government in suit. Writers in France. Clothes not mentioned in either article. No other women on cover except woman acting as mannequin for expensive timepiece.
Financial Times: Man in government in hockey clothes. Clothes not mentioned in article. One woman on the cover advocating divorce as a way to be able to concentrate on work.
Racing Post: Men in jockey’s clothes. Clothes not mentioned in the article. No women on cover except one acting as a mannequin for high-street bookmakers.
Star: Man in football clothes. Clothes not mentioned in the article. Another woman wears another dress. Women’s clothes the focus of the article.
So there you go little girls, if you are not talented enough to be an actress, be a mannequin. If you are an actress and actually have the TEMERITY to wear a dress, prepare to have it written about while the men featured in the same paper will be shown doing serious important stuff or sports requiring talent (such is the role of men in the world) If you are judged too old to wear clothes of interest never fear, you can write about wife-swapping and divorce …. bucking woop-a-dee-doo.
rotide
Man in expensive suit acting as mannequin for timepiece not worth mentioning
Woman in expensive suit acting as mannequin for timepiece…. CIS POOLORD ALERT
Idiot.
Twunt
You do know that it is women that spend hours pouring over all these pictures of women.
Most men might give these photos a cursory glance, then move on to the important stuff where men wear sports clothes or important government type suits.
The photos of women are there for the women because that is the way to get them to buy the shyte rag of a paper. It says more about what wemon want than you’d care to admit.
The Irish Examiner’s main headline suggesting that the former Minister of Education deliberately sought to keep fire-trap schools fire-trapped is the kind of so-called journalism that gives journalism a bad name.
Halloween Hell!!!!
Ah bless
Any of you watching George Lee in Dubai? The head on him!
Not a fan of the sunshine is George
Big fan of the bling though.
“Finally a DNA database for sex offenders”
This sounds like it’s written from the point of view of a sex offender whose database needs are finally being met.
This is what happens when you mix a slow news day with spending far too much time reading the Paper of Record and ingesting the ramblings of “prominent” members of the ACP as Gospel:
“The church has become a big institution, with all the trappings of a big institution.”
Well woopee do! Take a bow! Assuming this quote is accurate, could somebody please get Bat Woman to telephone the Vatican to let them know about this profound discovery that was made in Ireland (and announced in the Daily Mail, no less)?
There’s been a significant upturn in vocations in Ireland (both priests and religious), there are more seminarians in the world today than there were at the height of the Vatican II hysteria and there are many young men and women who are following their calling through today’s church (yes, the “backward” church that lives on in the 21st century church and has a very nice headquarters in the Vatican and a popular smiley fella in charge who doesn’t really say very much at all about the first world gays apart from reassuring them (when pressed at 30,000 feet) that he doesn’t judge, but God does). And how many of these young men and women want to follow in the footsteps of the dying ACP and their women priests/Vicar of Dibley/Frs Tom & Jerry Utopian vision of the future? Any such young people would have the good sense (and intellectual honesty) to join up with some of our Protestant brethren. And best of luck to them I say!
can I get a tl:dr everybody?!?
Tl:Dr
I didn’t quite follow all your points there, I will respond to this:
‘there’s been a significant upturn in vocations in Ireland (both priests and religious), ‘
Upturn since when?
In 1966 (following the end of Vatican II in 1965) 84 seminarians entered Maynooth when the population of the island was 4.3m, last year 14 entered Maynooth (population of the island 6.4m).
The number of seminarians may be increasing fast in Africa but in the developed world (or indeed anywhere with a broad level of wealth & education) ordinations are dropping to nothing.
Even in 1990 there were 252 total seminarians in Maynooth, last year there were 70.
Even if you ignore population growth & reduced standards for applicants, things do not look good.
A good weeding out at Maynooth was long overdue. Maynooth is bearing fruit again (praise the Lord!). This time of far superior quality. It’s far harder to get in now. Not like in the “good old days” where you would end up there very quickly if you were i) the youngest son and ii) unmarried.
“Dropping to nothing”. Really?
Of course the vocations in the developing world is increasing. That’s where all the population growth is.
Anyway, do we really need all these priests in Ireland? We have modern communications and transport now. Soon we’ll have super low-cost electric transport. The proportion of Pope’s children (and younger) who go to Mass every Sunday is low (but increasing, particularly among the Pope’s children’s children). And while they’ve been taught it’s cool to turn ones back on the church and be a Trinity rebel like Mary Robinson was back in 1971, there’s still an insatiable appetite for matches, hatches and dispatches.
“Things do not look good”. Really? Things might not look good from the perspective of an aging Irish journalist whose New Ireland Utopia hasn’t quite worked out as planned and is crumbling down after all the promises of the 1960s with nobody (bar the odd feminist studies graduate) to pick up the reins. They, like you, do not see beyond a 50 mile radius of the nucleus of the centre of the universe – Tara Street, Dublin.
It feels nice to know that numbers don’t lie (the number of seminarians in the world). Cold facts, like truth, cut through all the artificial constructs that have been forced down our throats for the last 50 years – lies such as (to name but a few): homosexualist culture, feminism, abortion and “gender theory”. These artificial social constructs, inventions of now-retired feminist academics, have somehow been to released into the general population where believing victims have gone on to do all kinds of things such as: acquire serious disease, suffer irreversible psychological damage, willingly (apparently) get your genitalia chopped off and even death.
Oh goodie, is there a knock-on effect? Maybe I’ll sign up to become one of Santa’s elves, I hear he’s taking wimmin this year, wha.
‘the height of the Vatican II hysteria’: John
‘I listened to a lot of hysteria’: Enda Kenny
‘Out of touch, out of reach yeah
You could try to get closer to me
I’m in luck, I’m in deep, yeah
Hypnotized, I’m shakin’ to my knees
I gotta know tonight
If you’re alone tonight
Can’t stop this feeling
Can’t stop this fire
Oh, I get hysterical, hysteria ‘
Def Leppard
Enda’s listened to it. A lot
A breakdown of the cover pictures of these so-called “News” papers:
Mail: Woman wears dress.Women’s clothes the focus of the article.
Express: Same woman wears the same dress. Women’s clothes the focus of the article.
Examiner: Man in scrubs. Clothes not mentioned in article. Two men in suits. Clothes not mentioned in article. Woman who has died in shoulderless attire featured. Clothes not mentioned, because that would be tasless right?
Tielegraph Man in racing driver clothes. Clothes not mentioned in article. First instance of a woman semi-formally addresses although the premise of her article is women have too much choice (oh-ohh) The only other women on cover is acting as a mannequin to back up Daniel Craig advertise the latest Bond film.
Did he stand behind the actress in ‘The girl with the dragon tattoo’ in the promotional ads?
Guardian: Man in football clothes. Clothes not mentioned in article. First instance of an article on an actress where the focus is not on her clothes. Although she does mention wife-swapping. (Immoral woman alert!)
NY Times Man in government in suit. Writers in France. Clothes not mentioned in either article. No other women on cover except woman acting as mannequin for expensive timepiece.
Financial Times: Man in government in hockey clothes. Clothes not mentioned in article. One woman on the cover advocating divorce as a way to be able to concentrate on work.
Racing Post: Men in jockey’s clothes. Clothes not mentioned in the article. No women on cover except one acting as a mannequin for high-street bookmakers.
Star: Man in football clothes. Clothes not mentioned in the article. Another woman wears another dress. Women’s clothes the focus of the article.
So there you go little girls, if you are not talented enough to be an actress, be a mannequin. If you are an actress and actually have the TEMERITY to wear a dress, prepare to have it written about while the men featured in the same paper will be shown doing serious important stuff or sports requiring talent (such is the role of men in the world) If you are judged too old to wear clothes of interest never fear, you can write about wife-swapping and divorce …. bucking woop-a-dee-doo.
Man in expensive suit acting as mannequin for timepiece not worth mentioning
Woman in expensive suit acting as mannequin for timepiece…. CIS POOLORD ALERT
Idiot.
You do know that it is women that spend hours pouring over all these pictures of women.
Most men might give these photos a cursory glance, then move on to the important stuff where men wear sports clothes or important government type suits.
The photos of women are there for the women because that is the way to get them to buy the shyte rag of a paper. It says more about what wemon want than you’d care to admit.
A lot depends on what they’re pouring.
Re. Database for sex offenders.
This might give them a bit of a headache and is going to cause ruptions in the whole “gene test” industry……http://www.buzzfeed.com/danvergano/failed-paternity-test-vanished-twin