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— squid (@squidlimerick) August 22, 2016
Tonight.
A ‘priest’ protesting fathers’ rights disrupts Cavan Rose Lisa Reilly’s chat with Daithi O’Sé on the Rose of Tralee on RTÉ One.
*buys telly licence*
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Seriously what a male genital.
Fathers rights and inequality in the family courts is a huge issue. Not sure if this type of stunt does anything to help though.
Daithi does his best, but I agree with you.
Fair play to him for bombing that absolute joke of a show
Ha ha ha ha ha ha!!! Brilliant!!
All joking aside, this is outrageous. He could have killed them all.
Instead he just stands there with a sign.
The poor guy must have been up all night thinking:
Should I get the priest’s garb and go on as Sinead O’Connor or would opening the door in my dressing gown (oooh, matron, what a place for a door, duckie!) make a bigger statement (to the Gardai).
You sound disappointed.
:)
Awesome! Super outfit and what a way to make a point. And F4J are right. Fathers ARE discriminated against by the ludicrous Family Law of this land in favour of mothers and women generally. It’s complete Bolloques.
Watch and weep you REPEAL amateurs. Generation Snowflake hasn’t a clue when it come to humourous protests taking the mickey out of Official Ireland.
PS: I am not John Waters.
Cop On, with the greatest of respect, do cop on.
Father’s are discriminated against, most certainly, but why do you think this is? Because traditionally, and statistically, women perform the lion’s share of labour-of-care towards children. Women dress, feed, clean, teach, care for when sick, etc. etc. etc. Anyone who claims this is not typical is lying or has an agenda: of course it is the truth, exceptions to which only prove the rule. It has ever been thus and is only changing slowly. There is more to parenting than labour of care, but labour of care is the dullest and most thankless part, so naturally it falls to women to do it. Just like caring for sick and/or elderly relatives – statistically, anecdotally, obviously, usually always women. Even when they work full-time.
This is why courts discriminate. Cases should be treated on a case-by-case basis, and the romanticised image of ‘perfect mammy’ dismantled, for all involved.
But it’s not a misandrist plot. Quite the opposite, actually.
I am sure you are aware of this, but have a neurotic need to believe that Misandrist Plots are the actual reason you have never managed to achieve the dizzying heights of status and deference owed to you as Possessor of a Penis, are the actual reason you can’t get laid, are the actual reason Bitches be Crazy to you, etc., etc.
They’re not. It’s just you.
“so naturally it falls to women to do it”, eh, okay.
Lovely Niamh.
“Father’s are discriminated against, most certainly, but why do you think this is? ……… (you) have a neurotic need to believe that Misandrist Plots are the actual reason you have never managed to achieve the dizzying heights of status and deference owed to you as Possessor of a Penis, are the actual reason you can’t get laid”
Wow Nimah…. that escalated fast. You jumped form agreement of principal to getting the gun out without anyone interfering.
Bitches be crazy, Owen.
In fairness, you’re claiming that men who feel single fathers are unfairly discriminated against are neurotic, sexless and delusional so I’d say *you* are anyway.
“men who feel single fathers”
*chuckles*
Things have gone a bit mad round here.
Correction: I am saying a man who blames these things on ‘ludicrous family law’, apparently blind to entrenched differences in gender roles vis a vis raising children, in a country where a man can get a suspended sentence for raping me, and imagines the Repeal agitators are ‘amateurs’ (uh…1970s womens’ civil rights movement is the origin of that…achieved a whole lot in the meantime…hardly amateurs) – is probably a little skewed in his relation to the reality of life in this country.
There are two sides, of course. My fellah struggled for years to avoid having custody denied by his ex-wife, as she kind of sort of had it in for him, and managed just-about to stay on the right side of her. Otherwise he would have faced that discrimination, yes, which is wrong and sad. He would also have had the chance to defend his side, though – arguing, substantially, that he’d done most of the labour of care for those children when they were young, as their mother was mentally unwell. He would have had a right to be listened to: sometimes fathers ARE given 50% custody, although material issues are also taken into account.
On the other hand, when my father walked out and refused to pay maintenance having never learned to so much as heat up my dinner, nobody had a problem with that: none of his mates, nobody. He was about the sixth Daddy on the street to do it. It was what the men round our way did. If my mother pissed him off, he would sometimes land in drunk railing about how he’d ‘get the kids off her’ in punishment.
So perhaps I’m mad. Or just, you know, not historically/culturally dishonest about gender divisions on this rather backward island of ours.
And we all know a ‘Cop On’, don’t we? I regret being harsh on him, but come on. He sounds like John Waters.
“I am saying a man who blames these things on ‘ludicrous family law’, apparently blind to entrenched differences in gender role”
So (presumably) discrimination against women based on traditional perspectives of gender roles is a Bad Thing but discrimination against men based on same is understandable and rational?
“He would have had a right to be listened to: sometimes fathers ARE given 50% custody, although material issues are also taken into account.”
A right to be listened to. Some get 50% custody. The law assumes the mother is fit but the father has to prove himself and even then, it’s the decision of a human being whose decisions can be affected by mood or general perspective. You seem to be justifying this because of ‘traditional gender roles’, so what else are you open to? Making it illegal for married mothers to work? Gender roles say she’s the care giver, after all.
“And we all know a ‘Cop On’, don’t we?”
Not myself, anyway.
Grow up with the perceived assaults and the identification politics. You’re full of it… You have no idea about repression as you wallow in your ageist, sexist stasi-safe oasis of the campus world
The French gave us the perfect word for the Repeal T-Shirted Snowflakes: infantilism
Ignoring for a second the psycotic elevation to misandrist plots, you are basically saying ‘men are discriminated against because , well that’s the way it is’
OK Cool.
Not justified by traditional gender roles, but explained by traditional gender roles.
I.e. fathers are not discriminated against Because Feminism, but rather because, traditionally, the mother really was/is expected to be primary caregiver no matter what.
Not saying it’s right, only that the origin of the structural discrimination is (you’re going to hate this, but I have to use the word) actually patriarchy. Not feminism.
Get that? Is that a little clearer?
Not saying discrimination is ok: saying it is not caused by misandrist plots.
Moyest, has it occurred to you that you are, in fact, the Cop On in somebody else’s life?
I apologise for the projection that went on in my original post. It is because the whole Fathers Rights thing has a pronounced misogynist/MGTOW element heavily invested in crying foul but less invested in actually changing nappies and so on.
Strategic misinterpretation of my points it not an argument, by the way.
“Not justified by traditional gender roles, but explained by traditional gender roles.”
Ok then.
“Father’s are discriminated against, most certainly, but why do you think this is? Because traditionally, and statistically, women perform the lion’s share of labour-of-care towards children.”
You’re not justifying or validating the discrimination, just explainung it. Ok.
“fathers are not discriminated against Because Feminism”
Grand. Didn’t say they were.
“Not saying it’s right,”
*Really* doesn’t come across like that. I mean, sorry for your experience with your da but if I’m a single dad trying to get custody of my child, why should I care? What purpose does that story serve if not to validate the ‘kids are better off with their ma’ narrative?
“Moyest, has it occurred to you that you are, in fact, the Cop On in somebody else’s life?”
Did you miss the bit where I said I don’t know who he is?
“It is because the whole Fathers Rights thing has a pronounced misogynist/MGTOW element”
You sure that isn’t more of the projection you just apologised for? If a man isn’t happy that the law doesn’t guarantee him rights over his own child, it must mean he hates women?
“Strategic misinterpretation of my points it not an argument, by the way.”
Strategic? Ok. Not everyone who disagrees with you has an agenda.
Courts don’t make decisions on algorithms. Not too bright, are we Niamh? They’re biased, reflective of – ironically – that “mothers place is in the home’ bolloques that permeates Irish society and the Irish constitution.
For every Ian Brady there’s a Myra Hyndley.
Amazed eejits haven’t tried this before. Big audience and bigger viral audience.
Daithi rushing to protect her.
imma let you finish but beyonce has the best fathers rights in the whole damn world
Lol
And what did this poor Rose ever do to him that her spot had to be ruined? I wonder whether he’ll be able to do a protest to fix that?
Now she knows how Vanderlei de Lima felt.
Ha!
… I thought we were going to “do” “something” for him, Freedom of Dublin or that, but apparently nothing ever came of it.
More of this please.
Good cause. Bad stunt. It’s ok to say that.
Protest is protest. You do what you think is best. Fair dues. And he worked in pr so…
By any means possible fathers should enforce their rights.
Go the Sydney Rose
Yes!
tubby brit
RTE must have been delighted, ratings and increased media coverage for a poo show
Lol!
I love it when RTE get all awkward and don’t know how to handle an off script situation.
You mean the Sydney rose yeah?