Monthly Archives: March 2012

No more Mr Squee guy.

EUROPEAN UNION member states will sacrifice their legitimacy if the public believes they are unable to influence economic decisions by their vote, President Michael D Higgins has declared in an interview [with David Frost on  Frost Over  The World] to be broadcast on Al Jazeera TV today.

Economics must be made “accountable and transparent in some way” for citizens. If not, he said, “what happens then is that you’re sacrificing legitimacy, and one is creating the ground for a naked conflict between a massive number of populations of different kinds and size who feel at the mercy of the economy”.

And the church?

“You’re probably never again going to see unaccountable structures [anymore] where you could hide or cloak misdemeanours or grave transgressions.”

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Higgins Warns Against EU ‘Sacrificing Legitimacy’ (Mark Hennessy, Irish Times)

Previously: The People’s President

(Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland)

“A lot of people say, ‘You destroyed your career by tearing up a picture of the pope‘” – on an infamous apperance on US TV in 1992 – “but I define success differently in this spiritually bereft business. To me, it’s ‘Can I be myself?’ I could stand in the street and sing and get enough to pay the bills. I don’t need millions of dollars. That was why I tore up the pope’s picture – I knew I had enough money that I didn’t have to marry a man with a very small penis to get the bills paid. I don’t want any man to have control over me. And that is success.”

 

Sinéad O’Connor: ‘I Define Success Differently’ (Caroline O’Sullivan, Guardian