httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzWMKVifqSI
Channel 4 News reports on the exodus from Ireland.
Depressing in every way imaginable.
Monthly Archives: February 2011
Westboro Baptist Church vs Anonymous. The story so far:
Last Wednesday, an open letter to Westboro Baptist Church appeared on Anon News, a site used by the hacktivist collective, Anonymous. On Saturday, WBC shot back with its own open letter to Anonymous (above), and a bonus tweet from Megan Phelps Roper – granddaughter of WBC founder, Fred Phelps:
Today, things are less clear, with Anonymous claiming selective amnesia and even suggesting that WBC hackers planted last Wednesday’s opening salvo on Anon News themselves. Haters hacking hackers? Trolls trolling trolls? At this point, anyone’s guess is as good as anyone else’s.
Via NBH
Mashable
“In the last few minutes it was confirmed on-air by Newstalk that Enda Kenny only agreed to be interviewed for their breakfast show on condition that he could not be asked any questions about his different pensions, and his last-minute decision to give up a large payment he was going to claim in April for teaching for 4 years in the early 1970s.”
Fianna Fail.ie
(Photocall Ireland)
Madam: “Anyone here been to Tyrrelstown?”
Editorial dept: “Eh…”
Madam: “It’s in Dublin 15.”
Editorial dept: “Eh…there’s a Dublin 15?
Madam: “Yes. North west Dublin.”
Editorial: “Eh…There’s a north west Dublin.”
(To be continued)
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Previously: Apple Water: Drink Different
Scoopertino
‘Visionary’, Vicka Ivankovic-Mijatovic (above left) brought her sun-spinning madness and demented rictus grin to the Late Late last night.
Without any real challenge, Vicka told her hoary old story (through an interpreter), of how, as a young girl, Mary appeared to her and her schoolfriends in the Bosnian town of Medjugorje.
And, in her case, keeps appearing, every day, standing “on a grey cloud”.
Chompsky’s dog-walker recalls visiting the shrine during the siege of Mostar, one of the early atrocities of the Bosnian war.
Apparently by then (1992) some of the visionaries had retracted their claims of seeing Mary. but owing to the amount of money coming into the town they were told to keep mum.
They were kept far away from the public and the visionary racket continued unaffected throughout the conflict (1991-95) which often raged around the town.
No mortars ever landed in Medjugorje, not because of the grace of God (as the pilgrims, many from Ireland, were told and believed), but because town bosses had paid off all the local warlords.
Croatian war criminal Mate Boban held regular press conferences there and, in a final irony, one of the visionaries’ husbands, a Bosnian-Croat soldier, would commute into Mostar to take his part in the attempted massacre of its Muslim population.
What the Blessed Virgin thought about all this went unrecorded.
All of which doesn’t mean Vicka didn’t see Mary. Nat saw De Valera during mushroom season last year. But couldn’t there have been one person in the studio to challenge this old ham on her preposterous claims, or even put a few of them under the spotlight?
As one would with – oh, say – Jim Corr?
Watch full interview here (starts at 30 mins)
Of whom we are intolerant.
Taken literally this afternoon at the launch of The United Ireland for Life Alliance.
Dana Rosemary Scallon, centre, Kathy Sinnott (former MEP Cork), left, and Íde Nic Mhathúna (from Coir, Dublin).
The Ireland United for Life Alliance is to urge the electorate to vote for anti-abortion candidates as, according to Dana, some 70 per cent of the voting public opposed abortion and “that would correlate to 1.2 million voters”.
