Old school.
But how old?
Bishop Michael Smith [still with us, thank God] as reported in the Irish Independent.
Via Limerick 1914
Previously: Meanwhile, In Maynooth
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John Lennon and Yoko Ono raise their fists as the join a protest in front of British Airways in New York, 5 Feb 1972 pic.twitter.com/ftqn51wHGa
— ConflictNI (@ConflictNI) February 4, 2014
“Leave Ireland or Yoko sings”
A week after Bloody Sunday, John Lennon and Yoko joined a protest of about 500 people in front of British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) offices on Fifth Avenue, New York. The demonstrators called for the withdrawal of British troops from Northern Ireland.
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atDebate on #pantigate to happen in the Dáil around 5pm today. (For foreign followers, Dáil = parliament, not some random pub)
— Panti Bliss (@PantiBliss) February 6, 2014
Senator Jim Walsh in the Seanad this morning spoke about intimidation and threats towards David Quinn and asked:
“Can we deal with these dangerous, vicious elements within the gay ideological movement?”.
Minutes later, Senator Ronan Mullen asked if GLEN could disassociate themselves from what was said “on the Saturday Night Live (sic) / Brendan O’Connor programme”.
Previously: Panti Power
Pussy Riot has arrived @nytopinion pic.twitter.com/DTCwtculzm
— Leah Finnegan (@leahfinnegan) February 5, 2014
Pussy Riot are in New York to be interviewed by the New York Times.
Previously: Riot So
Reform Alliance Senator Healy-Eames spoke in the Seanad this morning about the fraping, liquor-chugging craze of ‘social media’.
In one.
Previously: Fidelma: The Frape Tape
(Top Judi Dench as Philomena Lee and Steve Coogan as Martin Sixsmith, Bill Donohue of the Catholic League)
Bill Donohue of the Catholic League offers his version of Philomena Lee’s life story of Catholic Ireland of the 1950s.
It should also attract attention for what it really is: a cruel caricature of nuns that is based on half truths and out and out lies. That it appeals to the worst appetite in anti-Catholic bigots is not debatable.
The film smears the Irish Catholic Church much the way “The Magdalene Sisters” did. That tale of woe was clearly discredited with the release of the McAleese Report last year, a study authorized by the Irish government.
Just as we would not expect a Palestinian-made movie of Israel to be fair, Irish Catholics do not expect that a film crafted by the English to ring true.
The Weinstein boys, Harvey and Bob, are the perfect duo to distribute the movie in the U.S.Their previous gifts to Catholicism include the film, “Priest,” a tale of five morally debased priests; a flick that stars Sinead O’Connor as a foul-mouthed Virgin Mary, “Butcher Boy”; one that features a descendant of Mary and Joseph who works in an abortion clinic, “Dogma”; a movie that ridicules Catholics about sex, “40 Days and 40 Nights”; a big screen portrayal of vicious nuns, “The Magdalene Sisters”; a depiction of Santa as a vulgar, drunken, sexual predator, “Bad Santa” ; and “Black Christmas,” a dark comedy made especially for the holidays.
But as we shall see, the nuns never “took” the baby, and never sold him.
Hardcore.
Read in full here. (162 kB PDF)
Previously: Laundering The Magdalene ‘Myths’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfdeWPi5QUY
They’re not werf it.
An exclusive ‘clip’ from last night’s Ross Kemp: Extreme World where the former EastEnders star visited Norfern Areland to sort sumfing out.
SHARON!
Via L.A.D
Senator Fiach Mac Conghail, artistic director of the Abbey Theatre, in the Seanad this afternoon.
Previously: Meanwhile At The Abbey
Senator David Norris called for a debate on homophobia in the Seanad today.
Speaking under Oireachtas privilege the senator pulled no punches.
No one was safe.