34 thoughts on “Canon Balls”

  2. bisted

    …poor Mary…son out of the closet and into a same sex marriage…brother sexually abused by a priest that she had fawned over…and poor Martin thrown under a bus by the nuns before the whitewash had time to dry…

      1. bisted

        …she has…and admirably so…but she was one of the pillars that supported the church/state edifice and was betrayed once she had served her purpose…

        1. Ron

          In February 1984, just over four years after John Paul II wowed the Irish nation, Ms McAleese represented the Catholic bishops at the New Ireland Forum, convened by Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald, to find ways out of the North’s cycle of violence.

          She was a 32-year-old lawyer and journalist, and her distinctive softly brushed-back hairstyle cut a striking feminine contrast among all the grey men.
          The forum was just one of a string of committees on which she helped the Catholic hierarchy, causing her friend Cardinal Tomás Ó Fiaich to teasingly dub her “the bishops’ woman”.

          2. Cú Chulainn

            I have had occasion to sit with many of the aforementioned Jesuits and they have always shared an intense dislike of MDH because of the gay thing.. I’ve been shocked on occasion, but I’ve always stood up for him.

          3. Gabby

            Wasn’t Mary McAleese a law lecturer at Trinity College before she went into television journalism? I remember she presented, in the early 1980s, an American TV documentary about a mysterious ‘slimming disease’ that had recently surfaced in San Francisco among male homosexuals. This a few years later was diagnosed officially as AIDS. I remember that McAleese after the screening of the documentary simply said that it should make us all think.

    2. Topsy

      Mary had nothing to say when she was President about any of these issues, leeching from the state; or nothing to say when the ladies of the Magdalene laundries were shafted by the McAleese report. Suddenly she has gained a moral conscience.

  4. :-Joe

    Anyone know if that pope series with that english actor is any use?…

    I’d assume in the write hands, the life of the vatican mafia running catholism is a mine for satire, humour and a bit of dramatic gansterism tragic-realism…

    Might as well have a look at the whole puzzle again in some way, being the week that’s in it…
    -Or any suggestions of other interesting related things to watch?

    :-J

    1. Sham Bob

      I thought it was a great little series, very eccentric. More analogous to Trump than the current pope, and SFA to do with the Mafia.

      1. :-Joe

        ….Do you mean in the sense that Trump is just tumbling his way around the stage like a circus clown and he’s more remote controlled reactionary madness than individual machiavellian deviousness?…

        How funny is it?…

        :-J

  5. petey

    any posts on the two events yesterday in the US? if I missed them, please to let me know here.
    Qanon is right on the money then, eh Bodger you sleaze.

  6. Cú Chulainn

    MMAL was the acceptable face of Iona, Opus Die.. one of the gang with her blind husband. Then the son ‘comes out’. What annoys me is that she hasn’t seen the errors of her ways, it’s just that the gang and her own family don’t align anymore. She’s not fighting for justice she’s just annoyed, and it shows. I’ve no time for her.

    2. Ina

      I’m not a McAlise fan, but it’s better to be accurate. McAlise worked with Mary Robinson, in the 1980s and 1990s, to have homosexuality decriminalized in Ireland. It’s a matter of historical record.

      1. Topsy

        It’s also a matter of historical record that for a woman with a sudden concern for all injustice, had nothing to say about the husband’s report into the Magdalene laundries – which was condemned by the UN. A total hypocrite is Mary.

  8. Ollie Cromwell

    Hi,
    I’d like to be welcomed into your country with open arms
    Here’s some battery acid in your face to smooth my passage.
    Now,when you’re ready the address of where I can pick up some free money and a house would be most welcome.
    Take your time.
    Where are the women,you ask ?
    They’re not important. It’s a man’s world where we come from chump.

    2. SOQ

      Try and type something positive Oillie, You may need to seek ‘n peck the keyboard with one finger as the rest of your hands won’t know what is going on but just try eh? Just once.

  9. SOQ

    I am not by any means a theologian but my understanding is that ‘catholic’ means universal or general. If that is correct then surely the waving of the rainbow flag is not just acceptable but to be welcomed? Let’s celebrate this glorious and historical occasion by waving the the most catholic emblem ever created.

  10. Frilly Keane

    Mary McAl
    Sings whatever tune suits her

    When she thought she’d be in for a Vatican gig
    She was never done kneeling in praise n’ worship ov’em
    n’ kissing whatever ring they put in front of her

    And she wasn’t long changing her tune when they told her to shag off

    And as for that Report she shares a name with

    All I’ll say is herself and Martin were well met

  11. Monaghan Man Ultan

    Can someone summarize the Rosemary McCabe bit? I’m too lazy to walk up the road to the petrol station and read it in Re-store for free.

    The Phoenix- Fianna Fail lite.

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