Are you a parent or perhaps you have a child in your life that you love dearly? I think that would cover most of us. If a child in your [...]

I have little enough to say on the proposal to bomb Syria, apart from this.  Did we learn nothing from the invasion of Iraq?  Have we forgotten everything about the [...]

Sometimes you don’t even have to make it up.  According to the latest papal Nuncio to Ireland, the witty and urbane American Archbishop Charles Brown, a man straight out of [...]

What’s the latest batshit crazy religious news?  Well how about this American story that’s gone viral? In broad outline, it goes like this. A girl is trapped in the tangled [...]

It took two thousand years, but finally one man has the guts to demand answers.  In the most extreme CSI case the world has ever known, Kenyan lawyer Dola Indidis, a [...]

Bethany Home is currently in the news, for all the wrong reasons, as survivors of the home for fallen women demand equal treatment with the slaves of the Magdalene laundries [...]

The Murphy Report was published in 2009, following an investigation into child sexual abuse by priests in the Catholic archdiocese of Dublin.  At the time of its publication, certain material [...]

The Magdalene survivors are to be paid something by the State to compensate them for their time imprisoned and enslaved by the religious orders.  This is only right and proper, [...]

My household-gods plant a terrible fixed foot, and are not rooted up without blood, said Charles Lamb in his essay New Year’s Eve. For those who love language, let the words wash over [...]

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