50 thoughts on “Opposable

    1. mildred st. meadowlark

      Those high waisted trousers secured with a good thick leather belt show the world you’re a *real* man with *real* conviction.

    1. catsiglierie

      He did, as it’s fundamental to democracy that opposing thoughts be permitted to exist in public, if only for their veracity to be examined and the absurdity of their logic foregrounded.

    2. newsjustin

      Colm is obviously someone who understands that hearing opinions different to one’s own is actually good for democracy.

      1. Martin Heavy-Guy

        I’m all for hearing different opinions, but when those opinions are bigoted and set against the backdrop of ‘religion’, while also coming from a ‘charity’ that receives tax exemption in this state and simultaneously lobbies government with said bigoted opinions, then that is not good for democracy.

        We have plenty of right-wing opinions from Fine Gael and Fianna Fail without giving a soap-box to every nutcase with a point of view.

        1. Clampers Outside!

          +1

          Although I’d add, there’s no problem having lobby / interest groups, so long as they are registered with SIPO and are open and transparent in their dealings, research and accounting practices – Just like the ‘yes’ side in the #MarRef… and unlike the ‘No’ side in that same ref.

  1. Kevin Finnerty

    Funny how 2 of the 3 ‘recommendations’ on the advert are actually negative. They literally couldn’t find more than 1.

    “Everyone hates us, give us your money.”

    1. ironcorona

      Their whole reason for being is to be against things.

      Against same sex marriage.
      Against civil rights.
      Against progressive ideas.
      Against the modern world.

      Negative opinions give them power, so negative quotes prove to them that they’re having the desired effect.

      They want to dismantle the social and societal gains of the past 30 years.

    1. Clampers Outside!

      He, IONA, have a disclaimer on the website so that when they intentionally misinterpret research or mangle the original researchers findings to make some statement unrelated to the research they just point at that.

      He’s deceitful to mislead people on such topics as abortion.

      1. KirkenBrenner

        “He’s deceitful to mislead people on such topics as abortion.”

        This times a thousand.

        His submission to the Constitutional Convention on SSM whereby he misrepresented the findings of the Child Trends study* is a good starting point.

        *The study begins with:

        “Note: This Child Trends brief summarizes research conducted
        in 2002, when neither same-sex parents nor adoptive parents
        were identified in large national surveys. Therefore, no
        conclusions can be drawn from this research about the wellbeing
        of children raised by same-sex parents or adoptive
        parents.”

        Think this stopped Quinn?

  2. Janet, I ate my avatar

    Ahh comment deleted … Aparantly you are allowed compare someone to a lady part but not a badgers nether regions … what gives ?

        1. Janet, I ate my avatar

          stop deleting the good bits .. it’s like your Ma changing channels if a bit of kissing comes on

  3. Frilly Keane

    Its metaphor time

    His Slacks are Too Big for him
    Little man wearing big pants

    Dunno
    But here we are again talking about the Iona rhymes with punts

    1. Sheikh Yabooti

      I thought Iona sewed up the pockets & zip to prevent even accidental manual genital manipulation…

  4. irishstu

    Which is why he sheds it every 3 years. One year the mouthhole got stuck to the butthole and he had to squirm around in a circle for hours until someone came along and gnawed an escape hole.

    1. KirkenBrenner

      Yeah my comment about Quinn’s misleading submission to the Constitutional Convention on SSM got deleted too.

  5. Mulder

    Is that a photo of a guy from the 1950s.
    With a 1950s view of the world and Ireland.
    Actually looks like a trendy priest.

  6. Mulder

    Looks a bit like Dermot Morgan, the father Trendy, skit he used to do.
    In the high pitched country voice, telling ye, no seriously, i am telling you, Jesus is coming back.
    No, don`t be laughing, i am, serious.
    Well he said he would be back but he was not sure exactly when.

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