TBH
I think the National Level Politicans / Party Leaders are getting far too much attention
Let Lyra’s Partner and Family,
Her Friends and Neighbours
Her Colleagues
and all those that lived and laughed with her
Marched with her
Worked with her
Went to school with her
Bury the girl in peace
And mourn her together
Without the specticle of opportunistic blow-ins, with security details, in search of a shagging photo op getting in their way
SOQ
I think that Sara and Lyra’s family would have had the final say in what happened Venassa, including the church picked. Lyra passionately believed in the peace process so I expect they felt that is what she would have wanted.
The attendance of the politicians wasn’t a great opportunity for search of a perfect photo op.
They all looked like they had their tails firmly between their legs, as they knew in some way there were accountable.
The telling moment was when the whole congregation stood up and applauded the priests remark as ‘why now, after the death of a 29 year old woman’. They looked ashamed and pitiful.
Her death must not be in vain, like so many others.
GiggidyGoo
Not only hijack, but from row seats. Shameless photo-ops. By the lot of them.
They were far from the principal mourners yet there they all are
Shameless is right
newsjustin
There are usually two sides to a church. The family take priority, at the front, at one side. Presidents, prime ministers, mayors at the other side. That’s how it’s usually done for one of these funerals where politicians are present.
bisted
…haven’t been in a church in a long time but I always thought it was women on one side and men on the other…
rotide
uuuh, was the last time you were in a church 300 years ago?
Rob_G
A poster with no knowledge on a topic still feels obliged to contribute – there you have it, folks, BS in a nutshell.
Johnny
Actually it was quite witty,more than I can say for your posts….
I find it strange that you haven’t been to a wedding or funeral ever and could verify this.
deluded
Oh wait, St. Anne’s is Church of Ireland.
f_lawless
Facebook doing their bit to keep the Spaniards safe from “extremism”, I see https://twitter.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1121083347785195522
“WhatsApp, which is owned by Facebook, just shut down the massive channel used by Spain’s independent leftist political party Podemos. And it did this just days before the general election This is actual, extreme election meddling by a foreign corporation”
eoin
They’ve removed Saoradh, the quasi political group linked to the New IRA from Twitter and Facebook. Many people will agree with the removals, people will have been outraged by Saoradh’s marches last weekend after the killing of Lyra McKee but others will find it troubling given that Saoradh is itself a lawful organisation.
eoin
Is the Times Ireland winding down operations or is it just Easter week and they’re not doing much work?
Another very skimpy edition today. Two of the three front page stories are international (Sri Lanka, little connection to Ireland and political leaks about spy briefings in the UK) and inside, there’s a 3-day old story from the Examiner (Grace), a few opinions and yesterday’s funeral and that’s about it.
No wonder they’re selling less than 3,200 copies a day and has Aaron Rogan jumped ship to the Sunday Business Post (not really a ship, more like that boat at the end of Jaws).
Someone got a ball of wax and stuck some blonde hair on it and called it that woman from Game of Thrones and put it on exhibit at the Waxworks place in Dublin. And it looks nothing like whatshername at all.
Now, the rest of the world is laughing at us. Even the Kiwis.
Such a thing could do marketing wonders for the wax museum here.
They should focus on making awful (moreso) representations of celebs to keep gaining further attention and drawing in crowds who want to get the lols from selfies etc…
scottser
it’s actually the old miriam o’callaghan figure with a new wig.
eoin
The Australian Supreme Court has identified the “big five game” of your anatomy, the touching of which would constitute sexual assault. Can you name the big five (hint: the bum is not one of them).
The court case involved a cop pinching the bum of a basketball player during a photo at a charity match and the court was asked to decide if “pinching a woman’s buttocks to provoke a ‘humorous’ reaction offends against contemporary community standards of decency and propriety”
It’s important to say that it was accepted by all, including the cop, that pinching someone’s bum was “an unlawful assault”, the question was whether it was, on top of that, a sexual assault, and in the end, the bum was held not to be one of the points on your body, man’s or woman’s, which merits a sexual assault charge.
‘As they did at Russell Brewer’s execution eight years ago, James Byrd Jr.’s sisters witnessed John William King’s execution Wednesday evening.‘
The murder of James Byrd and the brutality involved led to the passing of the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act-basically it expands the 1969 United States federal hate-crime law to include crimes motivated by a victim’s actual or perceived gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability.
Does Ireland really still have no hate crime laws ?
Brexit has already destabilized Northern Ireland in the border regions. Politicians need to understand that their bad ideas effect millions of lives. Seeing that bunch of idiots all together at a Funeral really speaks volumes about modern politics.
Lyra despised both the Tories and Fine Gael. Why were Varadker and May allowed to hijack the funeral?
From their point of view it’s hardly wrong to do the right thing.
TBH
I think the National Level Politicans / Party Leaders are getting far too much attention
Let Lyra’s Partner and Family,
Her Friends and Neighbours
Her Colleagues
and all those that lived and laughed with her
Marched with her
Worked with her
Went to school with her
Bury the girl in peace
And mourn her together
Without the specticle of opportunistic blow-ins, with security details, in search of a shagging photo op getting in their way
I think that Sara and Lyra’s family would have had the final say in what happened Venassa, including the church picked. Lyra passionately believed in the peace process so I expect they felt that is what she would have wanted.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/gallery/2019/apr/24/the-funeral-of-lyra-mckee-in-pictures
spoken like a right owld boo boo mr muse
There is always one eh?
The attendance of the politicians wasn’t a great opportunity for search of a perfect photo op.
They all looked like they had their tails firmly between their legs, as they knew in some way there were accountable.
The telling moment was when the whole congregation stood up and applauded the priests remark as ‘why now, after the death of a 29 year old woman’. They looked ashamed and pitiful.
Her death must not be in vain, like so many others.
Not only hijack, but from row seats. Shameless photo-ops. By the lot of them.
Exactly
They were far from the principal mourners yet there they all are
Shameless is right
There are usually two sides to a church. The family take priority, at the front, at one side. Presidents, prime ministers, mayors at the other side. That’s how it’s usually done for one of these funerals where politicians are present.
…haven’t been in a church in a long time but I always thought it was women on one side and men on the other…
uuuh, was the last time you were in a church 300 years ago?
A poster with no knowledge on a topic still feels obliged to contribute – there you have it, folks, BS in a nutshell.
Actually it was quite witty,more than I can say for your posts….
http://www.traditionalcatholicpriest.com/2014/09/20/men-and-women-sit-on-different-sides-of-the-catholic-church/
Recent enough, does it depend on the local culture?
It doesn’t happen here. Ever.
I find it strange that you haven’t been to a wedding or funeral ever and could verify this.
Oh wait, St. Anne’s is Church of Ireland.
Facebook doing their bit to keep the Spaniards safe from “extremism”, I see
https://twitter.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1121083347785195522
“WhatsApp, which is owned by Facebook, just shut down the massive channel used by Spain’s independent leftist political party Podemos. And it did this just days before the general election This is actual, extreme election meddling by a foreign corporation”
They’ve removed Saoradh, the quasi political group linked to the New IRA from Twitter and Facebook. Many people will agree with the removals, people will have been outraged by Saoradh’s marches last weekend after the killing of Lyra McKee but others will find it troubling given that Saoradh is itself a lawful organisation.
Is the Times Ireland winding down operations or is it just Easter week and they’re not doing much work?
Another very skimpy edition today. Two of the three front page stories are international (Sri Lanka, little connection to Ireland and political leaks about spy briefings in the UK) and inside, there’s a 3-day old story from the Examiner (Grace), a few opinions and yesterday’s funeral and that’s about it.
No wonder they’re selling less than 3,200 copies a day and has Aaron Rogan jumped ship to the Sunday Business Post (not really a ship, more like that boat at the end of Jaws).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVmeeYwEiQw
Someone got a ball of wax and stuck some blonde hair on it and called it that woman from Game of Thrones and put it on exhibit at the Waxworks place in Dublin. And it looks nothing like whatshername at all.
Now, the rest of the world is laughing at us. Even the Kiwis.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/tv-radio/112261098/game-of-thrones-fans-criticise-daenerys-targaryen-wax-figure-fail
Dem Kiwis have an aversion to Wax museums. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=11914091
Such a thing could do marketing wonders for the wax museum here.
They should focus on making awful (moreso) representations of celebs to keep gaining further attention and drawing in crowds who want to get the lols from selfies etc…
it’s actually the old miriam o’callaghan figure with a new wig.
The Australian Supreme Court has identified the “big five game” of your anatomy, the touching of which would constitute sexual assault. Can you name the big five (hint: the bum is not one of them).
The court case involved a cop pinching the bum of a basketball player during a photo at a charity match and the court was asked to decide if “pinching a woman’s buttocks to provoke a ‘humorous’ reaction offends against contemporary community standards of decency and propriety”
It’s important to say that it was accepted by all, including the cop, that pinching someone’s bum was “an unlawful assault”, the question was whether it was, on top of that, a sexual assault, and in the end, the bum was held not to be one of the points on your body, man’s or woman’s, which merits a sexual assault charge.
http://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/wa/WASC/2019/84.html
Nicola Sturgeon wants a second Scottish independence referendum by 2021 (if the UK is taken out of the EU, as voted for in 2016).
Will the Scots really have a second independence referendum while Northern Ireland hasn’t even had a first?
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-48026430
I’d be very interested in seeing what the Scots have to say this time around.
Good sweet lord you are intensely annoying.
The GFA doesn’t take into account any other area in the world having referendums when it provisions for a vote within ireland.
You know this. You just insist on vomiting out words.
Daily Telegraph photo of Farah:
Mo Money… Mo Problems…
don’t shoot the…..
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/hillary-clinton-mueller-documented-a-serious-crime-against-all-americans-heres-how-to-respond/2019/04/24/1e8f7e16-66b7-11e9-82ba-fcfeff232e8f_story.html?utm_term=.1948d081c009
‘As they did at Russell Brewer’s execution eight years ago, James Byrd Jr.’s sisters witnessed John William King’s execution Wednesday evening.‘
The murder of James Byrd and the brutality involved led to the passing of the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act-basically it expands the 1969 United States federal hate-crime law to include crimes motivated by a victim’s actual or perceived gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability.
Does Ireland really still have no hate crime laws ?
https://www.npr.org/2019/04/24/716647585/texas-to-execute-man-convicted-in-dragging-death-of-james-byrd-jr
Brexit has already destabilized Northern Ireland in the border regions. Politicians need to understand that their bad ideas effect millions of lives. Seeing that bunch of idiots all together at a Funeral really speaks volumes about modern politics.
David Cameron has a lot to answer for, the worm