@GaryLineker do u wanna go there publicly “Mr Squeaky Clean” ? Think u should have a look in that vast closet of skeltons before u respond.
— Joseph Barton (@Joey7Barton) May 14, 2012
Monthly Archives: May 2012
Apple’s iPhone PA Siri is heavily reliant on the Web-based knowledge database Wolfram Alpha, for his/her info. Which means (in the US at least) she/he’s obliged to point out the results of a recent spate of positive customer and critic reviews of the Windows Mobile Phone 7 enabled Nokia Lumia 900.
Now that’s just plain awkwardorable.
Last November, after a 14-year battle, Brendan Boland reached a settlement with the Archdiocese of Armagh represented by Cardinal Seán Brady.
After the payout, Mr Boland said:
“At the trial of Fr [Brendan] Smyth, I met other victims who were 10-15 years younger than I, who would not have been abused if the assurances given to me and my family and the youth club priest had been honoured. This unkept promise was indeed a further abuse of me.
“These proceedings have been a considerable ordeal for me and have been strenuously defended by the cardinal.
“I hope that the Catholic Church will learn to show true compassion for all victims of clerical sexual abuse and withdraw all technical legal defence obstacles and ploys and make just offers of compensation where appropriate.
Yesterday Justine McCarthy wrote in her Sunday Times column: “..(Last Friday) a spokesman for Brady told this newspaper the cardinal intends to defend the legal cases now being brought against him by three of the children Boland told him about in 1975.”
(Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland)
Piranhaconda
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No really. Premiering on the SyFy channel this June: executive produced by Roger Corman, starring Rachel Hunter and the utterly, utterly shameless Michael Madsen as ‘Professor Lovegrove’.
Sure it’s believable, but nowhere near as viscerally real as this scene from the excellent Megashark Versus Giant Octopus.
Kitchen broken into. Van robbed. Keep on look out for lolly and cooks vw transporter.
— Lolly and Cooks (@LollyandCooks) May 14, 2012
Meanwhile, ah here…
The ruling General Synod voted to pass a controversial motion that “faithfulness within marriage is the only normative context for sexual intercourse”.
Gerry Lynch, of Changing Attitudes Ireland and a member of St George’s Church in Belfast, said: “Nobody says that my love life is not ‘normative’ when the collection plate is passed round, or when I come in on a Saturday to get the church ready for Sunday, or spend time with distressed people who often turn up at a city centre church.
“The General Synod vote confirmed many gay people’s experience of the churches as the last bastion of homophobia.”
Church Of Ireland Synod Blasted For ‘Homophobia’ After Vote On Marriage (Belfast Telegraph)
Previously: Old Testimony
(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)
Stephen Kelly writes:
Freddie Mercury on the side of a house on the Northside of Cork City, as seen from the train [this morning].
The Department of Agriculture has rehired 59 veterinary inspectors after they retired.
…Minister of State at the Department of Public Expenditure Brian Hayes has said that the short-term re-employment of retired civil servants is a “cost saving measure” in the long run.
He said that by bringing back people with particular expertise for six to 12 months, departments were saving on extensive, external searches for new staff.