In case you missed it: John Oliver covers the day that was ouv’ih.
(H/T: Maria Brosnan)
KONY 2015?
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When Joseph first signed up with Mars One — the media-hyped, one-way mission to colonize the red planet being floated by a Dutch non-profit — he didn’t think much of it. The former NASA researcher said he never really took the application seriously; he was just putting his hat in the ring mostly out of curiosity, and with the hope of bringing public attention to space science. But eventually Joseph — who is actually Dr. Joseph Roche, an assistant professor at Trinity College’s School of Education in Dublin, with a Ph.D. in physics and astrophysics — found himself on the group’s shortlist of 100 candidates all willing to undertake the theoretical journey. And that’s when he started talking to me about the big problems he was seeing with Mars One.
READ ON: Mars One Finalist Explains Exactly How It‘s Ripping Off Supporters (Elmo Keep, Matter)
(Illustration: Josh Cochrane)
(Thanks Alan Bell)
This morning
Jojo writes:
7am College Green [Dublin] on my way to work. I’ve never seen town this filthy at this time before. At least it’s over…
Ciaran Savage writes:
Spotted in a restaurant in Trastevere, Rome (left) and an actual table setting in another restaurant in Trastevere , Rome (right)… And, no, they didn’t know we were Irish.
The Rathkeale Parish Newsletter.
Der writes:
Rathkeale parish priest promotes gay cure. Joseph Nicolosi is a founding member of the National Association for Research & Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH) and was its president for some time. NARTH is a professional association that promotes the acceptance of conversion therapy, whose adherents purport successfully changing homosexuals into heterosexuals. This is not endorsed by any reputable psychological association in world, and is bloody dangerous!
Barry Higgins tweetz:
The potholes are so bad in New York City I am fearing the worst for our Leprechaun.
Thanks Barry.
MORE to folly.
Garrett Rowe (The Irish Times); Kevin Cramer (The Irish Examiner); Colin McGann (The Clare people); Neil Henderson (UK covers)
Covers to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie
Rope A Pope
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The Pope.
And his past.
Staying in tonight?
Melanie O’Connor writes:
Who is Jorge Mario Bergoglio? The Pope who calls himself ‘a sinner’ is, certainly, a man of contradictions. But how did the man who was loved and loathed by his fellow Jesuits back in Argentina become Pope and can he hold the Roman Catholic Church together and reform it at the same time? In a Would You Believe special, Pope Francis – The Sinner airing tonight at 9.35pm on RTÉ One looks at the life of Jorge Mario Bergoglio and what shaped him into the Pope he is today.
“Francis has crystallised a new vision of the church that includes everybody” says Paul Vallely, the Pope’s early biographer. However, not everyone agrees and Mary McAleese, while she likes the new Pope, feels he just doesn’t get women: “there’s a blind side here…that leaves good men…like Francis still carrying a residual element of misogyny that closes them off…”
FIGHT!
The Sinner at 9.35pm on RTÉ One.
Previously: Stick It Up Your Junta
