Yearly Archives: 2013

BRa5bLOCYAAeDcaThe Karma nightclub in Athlone.

Really?

Athlone Town Councillor Jim Henson said he heard about the controversy from a number of students. He cautioned: “Young people need to celebrate on the Leaving Cert night without marketing companies taking advantage of them.”

 

Yes, but penis rodeo?

Really?

REALLLY?

Cllr James Henson (Labour.ie)

Ah here, sleaze it out (Niall O’Connor, Irish Sun)

11/6/2013. Irish Bishops Conferences

Others had pointed out “that the bishops being a group of aging celibate men have no right to interfere with a woman’s right to choose what she wants to do with her body”. And there were the arguments, “made by several senior politicians that, whilst bishops are entitled to their views, they as politicians have to legislate for all the people, for the public good”.

 

Archbishop Eamon Martin speaking at Féile an Phobail last night as he delivered the Oliver Plunkett address.

Church message ‘increasingly counter-cultural’, says Coadjutor Archbishop of Armagh (Patsy McGarry, Irish Times)

(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)