Yearly Archives: 2013

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opus2(Opus Dei, top, and the Irish Philosophical Society’s logo, above)

James Delaney O Neill writes:

So, I have an interest in studying and reading philosophy and I was looking up different philosophical groups and societies in Ireland. The more I look into the groups here the more I realise how they are all cultish in the most deceptive ways.

I was just about to join the Irish Philosophical Society, thinking that it seemed the least cultish or cathloic, but I just looked at the address you send your membership form and fees to and smelled snake oil.

You send them to 10 Hume Street, Dublin 2. As I work around the corner I know that this is the Ely University Centre which is an Opus Dei School. The school only lightly mentions that its spiritual guidance comes from Opus Dei on its website. Even the school is looked down upon by the Knights of Coloumbanus which own Ely House (Hume Street and Ely Place seem to be a hot place for right wind secretive Catholic organisations).

So I am coming to the conclusion that Opus Dei really are in all types of places you might not notice.

Are there any philosophical groups out there you can join in Ireland to join that aren’t linked to secretive fundemental groups? Don’t really want to have to get a degree in TCD.

 

Anyone?

Previously: That’ll Be The Day

pixar-theoryFor many years, Pixar fans have toyed with the notion that every Pixar film actually takes place in the same universe.

Blogger Jon Negroni has finally come up with what he claims is a single unified theory of all 14 films, from the fourteenth century to 4500 -5000AD.

THE REASONING: The Pixar Theory (Jon Negroni)

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9013202490307911(Matt Moran, top, former chief financial officer with Anglo, who claims in emails that Enda Kenny, top, rang him twice in November 2008 to brief him on Fine Gael’s banking crisis strategy)

 

[Michael] Martin said that in recent weeks the Taoiseach reacted to the Anglo Tapes, published by the Irish Independent, and spoke about an “axis of collusion” without a scrap of evidence.

The Fianna Fáil leader said the reports leave the Taoiseach red-faced because they show he was engaged in personal informal contact with Anglo senior management, and that they suggest the Taoiseach deliberately misled the Dáil in response to the Anglo Tape story when he talked about his personal contact with Anglo, as the only example he cited was a meeting in September 2008.

 

Taoiseach denies he misled Dáil over Anglo (RTE)

 

The former Anglo executive also writes about being in regular contact with former Fianna Fail TD Beverley Flynn.

He writes about “conversations” with Ms Flynn, and how she would update him on discussions with then Finance Minister Brian Lenihan.

Mr Moran is from Mr Kenny and Ms Flynn’s home town of Castlebar, Co Mayo.

 

Enda Kenny: The Anglo Connection (Tom Lyons and Daniel McConnell, Sunday Independent)

He [Matt Moran] is from a well-known Castlebar business family and the youngest offspring of the late Michael and Mary Moran. Over many decades the family has run  Rocky’s pub, and an undertaking business on Tucker Street. Coincidentally the pub is across the road from Taoiseach Enda Kenny’s constituency office.

 

Anglo Tapes have Castlebar Connection (Mayo News, July 2)

(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)