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National Army soldiers during the Irish Civil War

You may recall a post from earlier in the month, detailing how, for the first time, Trinity College Dublin was offering a free online course on Irish war and revolution between 1912 and 1923.

Well.

University Times is reporting that 10,000 people have signed up to the course, with more than half of the students coming from outside Ireland.

Ten thousand.

Fair play, in fairness.

Trinity’s First Online Course Already has 10,000 Students (Edmund Heaphy, University Times)

Previously: History Lessons

Pic: Wikipedia

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A new logo.

A ‘Global relations Strategy’.

€3.71 million on consultants fees.

How’s that going down?

“For me, it’s not only the new logo, or indeed this entire project, that I object to, but also what its adoption would represent: the hypocrisy of a university that claims to be proud of its history and traditions, yet aims to hide them in commercial exercise – a university that

focuses its resources on attracting new students and higher rankings rather than respecting the students and staff that it already has.”

Student journalist Sineád Baker on Trinity College Dublin’s proposed changes.

FIGHT!

Trinity in Transition: The Harsh Realities for Students and Staff (Sineád Baker, University Times)

Previously: Rebranding Trinity

(Telegraph)

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Hogwarts Trinity College Dublin this afternoon.

Peter Gallagher tweetz:

“TCD Fellows [including WB Yeats (right)] beaten at marbles for 3rd year running by Scholars. Really.”

It’s all in the wrist.

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The front gate at Trinity College Dublin this morning.

Anyone?

UPDATE:

According to the Garda Press office a number of cars were damaged in the incident that saw a vehicle drive into the grounds on Trinity College and hit the wooden door, causing extensive damage.A 68 year old man was arrested and was taken to Store St Garda station.

Car smashes famous front doors of Trinity College (Louise Kelly, Cormac  McQuinn, Independent.ie)

Thanks Jim Chimney and Podge

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Sinéad O’Connor at Wednesday night’s debate hosted by Trinity College’s ‘Hist’ society where she spoke against the motion – ‘This House Believes The Catholic Church Can Be Salvaged’.

And threw the Good Book at them.

 

What I’m gonna do, it’s interesting to me that God never gets to ask what She/He/She or It thinks and nobody ever wonders what God thinks but God has actually done a lot of talking in the books of the Prophets, and through the Gospels and in the Book of Revelation so I’m going to make my residence scriptural.

So in the The Book Of The Prophet Isaiah…

“The Lord stands up to plead a cause.. The peoples leaders have been misleaders.. So that they that are led have been confused”

My argument is not based upon my own opinions but those of God as he reveals himself in The Books of The Prophets.. and those of Jesus as he reveals himself in the Gospels and in particular, The Book Of Revelation.

The Vatican have extensive knowledge of these books .. I will show you what the Vatican do not… that the idea the Catholic Church can be salvaged is actually entirely against Christ’s teachings ..against the Catholic Church’s own teachings…

I will show you that the end of religion is in fact the CORE of Christ’s message.. and that to believe that ANY Christian church will survive .. is in fact anti-Christian…because.. it is opposite to Christ’s Revelation.
Now I’m not going to take questions during this, I’ll take them after. Please don’t interupt me and remember I didn’t write the books, I’m just reading them.
Also please be ready to take two notes along the way so as to help yourself make a decision at the end of this.
The Books Of The Prophets, the prophet by the way, is the person God chooses to speak on his behalf for some reason, God doesn’t have a voice that works like ours does. This isn’t explained by scripture. The prophets are only ever sent to speak to religious leaders, kings and poets and pliticians, okay. This is the way it goes, the Books of the Prophets repeatedly reveal what Tony (Fr Tony Flannery) will know that God is a FURIOUSLY anti religious character ..

ISAIAH CHAPTER 1

“Your new moons and fixed seasons fill me with LOATHING…

They are an obstacle to me ..

I cannot endure them. ..

Your hands are stained with crime…

Your wine is cut with water.

Your rulers are rogues ..

And the cronies of thieves. ..

Trample my courts no more ..”

ISAIAH CHAPTER 10

“Those who write out evil writs and compose iniquitous documents and have fatherless children as their booty..

To whom will you flee when calamity comes?

Your stored wealth will become as paper..

And he who amassed it a spark .. ”

He is emphatic in The Book Of Jeremiah .. that he never wanted religion and it has crucified him.

JEREMIAH CHAPTER 2. VS 5

“What wrong did your fathers find in me that they abandoned me and went after delusion and were deluded?

The priests never ask themselves where is The Lord ..

The guardians of the teachings ignore me…”

He is referring to…

EXODUS CHAPTER 20. VERSES 2, 3 And 5

“I AM The Lord your God..” “You shall have no other but me…” You shall NOT bow down to sculptured images”

JEREMIAH CHAPTER 2 continues

“But My people have exchanged it’s glory for what can do no good.

Be appalled oh heavens at this.

Be utterly dazed.

For my people have done a twofold wrong..

They have forsaken me.

The fount of LIVING waters.

And .. hewn themselves out CISTERNS…. .

BROKEN cisterns…

Which cannot even hold water..”

He states his agony over the separation caused by religion.. between himself and ourselves..

With whom he had intended a direct relationship..

But has been cock blocked.

JEREMIAH CHAPTER 4..

“Oh my suffering.. My suffering.. How I writhe..

Oh.. The walls of my heart.

Because my people are shattered I am shattered.

Seized by desolation

Why has healing not yet come from my poor people?

Oh that my head were water.. oh that my eyes were a fount of tears.. I would weep day and night for my poor people.

In JEREMIAH CHAPTER 7

God asks religious leaders..

“Will you steal and murder and swear falsely.. And then come and stand before ME in this House which bears MY name?

And say we are safe?

Safe to do all these abhorrent things?

Do you consider this house.. Which bears MY name.. To be a den of thieves????

As for me..

I have been watching..”

Now Jesus smashed up the temple money men and then said in

MARK CHAPTER 3. VS 28

“All the sins of man will be forgiven but one.. which is blasphemy against the Holy Spirit”

Lying.. in the LIVING PRESENCE of the Holy Spirit .. about the COVER ups.. of the rapes, theft, sale and even manslaughter of children.. is such a blasphemy.

MATTHEW CHAPTER 5. VERSES 17 AND 18, note these down please,

These are the three most important sentences that Christ ever uttered

And Tony, this is what I think is going to give you some assurance in the issue what you face in your heart regardless, okay? These words are incendiary.

Please remember I used the word ‘incendiary’.

Also please note the word ‘law’ in each verse.. refers to religion.

“Do not think that I have come to destroy the law or the prophets.

I have come not to abolish but fulfil.

I tell you not the smallest letter nor the smallest part of A letter will pass from the law UNTIL… ALL … THAT IS WRITTEN … HAS BEEN FULLFILLED…”.

The KEY word here is UNTIL…

He Is stating religion will exist UNTIL the books of the prophets have been fulfilled..

He is stating stating that The books of the prophets WILL BE fulfilled.

The Books Of The Prophets end with the end of religion.

He is a militantly anti religious man..

Because he IS God upon earth.

The very LAST book of prophecy is also the very last book of the bible..

The Book Of Revelation..

I refer you to our earlier passage from Isaiah..

“Your stored wealth shall become as paper..

And he who amassed it… a spark… ”

Catholic Encyclopeadia states….

“It is within the city of Rome .. called The City on seven hills. .. that the entire Vatican state proper is now confined”

I want you remember please the city on seven hills.. ”

Revelation concerns THE CORE Christian belief.. that Christ will come again.. and religion will end.

It is the completion of Christ’s mission as described in Chapter 21 verses 3 and 4..

“Behold God’s dwelling is with the human race.

The the old order has passed away..”

In REVELATION CHAPTER 17… a woman sits upon a beast who has seven heads.

Scripture states…

“One of the angels said to me..

Come here I will show you the judgement on the woman wearing purple and scarlet and adorned with gold and precious stones.

She held in her hand a gold cup that was filled with her abominable deeds.

The angel said to me.. “Here is a clue for one who has wisdom… ”

The Seven heads are the SEVEN HILLS upon which the woman sits.

Then he said to me

“The woman represents the great city that has SOVEREIGNTY, SOVEREIGNTY .. over the kings of the earth..”

CHAPTER 18.. states..

Then I saw another angel come down from heaven ..and

He cried out in a mighty voice..

“Fallen..

Fallen .. is Babylon the great..

She has become a haunt for demons.

She is a cage for every unclean and disgusting beast. and

then I heard another voice from heaven say..

Depart from her my people..

For her sins are piled up to the sky ..

And God remembers her crimes..

For she said to herself

“I sit enthroned as queen..

I am no widow…

And I will never know grief…

The kings of the earth will weep and mourn over her when they see the smoke of her pyre… ”

REVELATION 18 continues…

“When they see the smoke of her pyre.. The princes of the world cry out..

” Alas… great city .. Wearing fine linen, purple and scarlet..

In one hour your judgement has come..

In one hour this great wealth has been ruined”.

VERSE 21

A mighty angel picked up a stone like a huge millstone and threw it into the sea and said

“With such force .. will Babylon be thrown down.

And no light from a lamp will ever be seen in you again..

Because your commerce was with the princes of the earth .. all nations were led astray by your sorcery..

Smoke will rise from you forever and ever…”

REVELATION CHAPTER 22 tells you what happens afterward..and this is Tony what you will find reassuring..

“One of the angels says .. “Come here.. I will show you the bride of the lamb..”

He took me to a high mountain and showed me the holy city coming down from God..

Remember we saw earlier.. “Behold.. GODS DWELLING is with the human race.. ”

WHAT I WILL READ NEXT ARE THE 17 MOST IMPORTANT MOST IMPORTANT WORDS IN SCRIPTURE ..

Revelation .. Chapter 21.. Vs 2.

“I SAW NO TEMPLE IN THIS CITY. …

FOR ITS TEMPLE IS THE LORD GOD AND THE LAMB…”

“I SAW NO TEMPLE IN THIS CITY

FOR ITS TEMPLE IS THE. LORD GOD AND THE LAMB”

There is NO religion in God’s plan.

The closing passages of REVELATION and therefore there’s no religion in Christ’s plan either by the way..
The closing passage of Revelation and therefore the Bible states

“These words are trustworthy and true

And The Lord God of prophetic spirits has sent his angel to show his servants what must happen soon.

Behold the Lord is coming soon.

and Blessed is the one who keeps the prophetic message of the book of Revelation that Christ will come again and abolish all religion and establish God’s dwelling on Earth in direct relationship with his subjects. If you do not believe that you are not a Christian and you do not understand the scriptures and the Book of Revelation, Christ will survive Catholicism, he never needed it in the first place.”

Meanwhile…


Reproduced by permission.

Pic: ContactMusic.com

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Previously: Yikes

Thanks Michael Nugent

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[Part of the Trinity College Dublin Scholars and Fellows Calendar 2014 photographed in the college’s Senior Common room]

“In a competition for the ten dumbest Fellows of Trinity College Dublin in 2013-2014 the public-spirited charitable nudists in the Senior Common Room will be hard to beat. In my view they ought to be banned from membership of the Senior Common Room for a year.”
“…Fellows with bird brains and poor judgment disporting themselves in various states of disarray”

Dr Gerald Morgan, Former Fellow of Trinity College and professor in the School of English,

Scholars and Fellows Nude Calendar Faces Criticism from Former Fellow (Hannah Ryan, University Times)

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They start young in Young Fine Gael (TCD branch).

At a YFG meet and greet session in Trinity College following the ejection of one party member amid claims of financial impropriety…

Trinity News reports:

 

…Ciara McMahon, a candidate for the YFG panel, noted in her speech that politics should be introduced as a Leaving Certificate subject. Another panel candidate, David McManus, also outlined the importance of “getting young people interested in politics.”

One candidate went on to attempt to defend Darren Scully, the councillor and former Naas mayor who was expelled from the party for saying that he would not represent “black Africans” in the town. Fine Gael’s recent decision to re-admit Scully into the party was condemned by the Irish Integration Centre as sending a “clear message that racist remarks by elected representatives are okay with them.” However, the YFG candidate in question remarked in his speech that, “Nobody is perfect.”

YFG was also the subject of public attention in July following the passing of a number of unusual motions at its annual Garrett Fitzgerald Summer School, [Including] that, “YFG calls on the Government to reinstate Garda detectives with sub-machine guns, as ordinary handguns are insufficient to combat modern day crime.”

 

Good times (ahead).

UPDATE:

Your mentioning of the (TCD branch) is very unfair. The Trinity branch has been unanimous in our condemnation of Darren Scully. We were only the venue for that debate. We have consistently championed a progressive cause within YFG, as you may have seen in the past

 

David Higgins, PRO Young Fine Gael Trinity

Student ejected from YFG husting session (Trinity News)

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Stephen Garry writes:

“TCD Mental Health Week launched today. One in three young people will experience a mental health problem and it’s time to talk about it. Would really appreciate any publicity you could offer to this worthwhile cause. Events this week include “Speak Your Mind” with Brent Pope and a James Vincent McMorrow Gig.”

 

Mental Health Week (Trinity College Dublin)

Video by David Cullinan

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Further to revelations in today’s Herald (not available online) incoming Trinity College Dublin Students’ Union President Tom Lenihan, son of Brian, writes:

In recent days, there has been some speculation in the print and social media about disciplinary action taken against me by Trinity College authorities. I want to set out the facts of this matter.

Two weeks ago, I took a note into one of my third years law exams. The note was seen by an invigilator and, as a consequence, I was brought before a disciplinary hearing for breach of the College examination rules. The outcome of that hearing, which I fully accept, is that I must repeat the exam in question.

I greatly regret my action and I sincerely apologise to the students and to the College for my behaviour. I have apologised to the Junior Dean and I will fully comply with the sanction imposed on me.

At this remove, it is not clear to me what I hoped to achieve by taking the note into the exam but I fully accept that any observer could only conclude that I was cheating. What I did was wholly wrong and unacceptable. It was also uncharacteristic.

Since my election as President of the Students’ Union last February, I have been experiencing some personal difficulties. I have been diagnosed with depression and, unfortunately, I had neglected my medical treatment which exacerbated my condition. I found myself unable to cope mentally and physically. Getting through the day became a struggle. As the exams loomed closer, I became more stressed. On the morning of the exam in question, I had a panic attack and in a random irrational reaction, I took the note into the exam hall. I had suffered several panic attacks throughout the exam period.

None of this is to excuse my behaviour, for which I take full responsibility, but it does provide context.

Immediately after the incident, I told the current president of the Students’ Union and my fellow sabbatical officers what had happened. They have offered me their full support and confidence, for which I am deeply grateful. I will do all I can in the fulfilment of my role over the next year to reward their trust.”

Statement from Tom Lenihan regarding College disciplinary proceedings (University Times)

(Shauna Watson/University Times)

Thanks Owen Bennett