Pope holds a pointless meeting about clerical child-abuse with sad, entrenched, conservative and sexually-inadequate old men.

Peter Townshend child abuse controversy

Cork goalkeeper’s sexual orientation is irrelevant Can he stop them scoring or can’t he? That’s the only thing that matters.

Euro-politicians and parading gays on a sunny day in Limerick

Gay pride week in Limerick

Somebody suggested that I take this away from the specifics of the Bourke case and ask a general question instead.
Excellent idea. That’s exactly what I’m going to do now.
For the purposes of reasoned discussion, this hypothetical situation concerns two married people, neither of whom has been in any way abusive towards the other partner [...]

I see our old friend Cathal Ó Searcaigh is back in the Himalayas.  These days, however, he’s gone under cover, posing as an Italian tourist.  (An Italian who just happens to have a distinctive Donegal accent).
In this report, an American tourist accidentally bumps into the great poet, and Cathal happily tells him how he enjoys [...]

Limerick Pride Week is now on.
Why don’t you go and take a look?  It isn’t just for the homocyclists, you know.
The annual Pride parade is on Saturday at 1:00 pm and there’s a party in Dolans on Saturday night.  I hope to bring you some pictures of both.

Check THIS out.

I watched the programme last night, and one particular part struck me. It was when Cathal was reading a clever haiku to his Nepalese boys, most of whom had only halting English. Despite the language gap, they were so eager to please Cathal that they laughed at any old shit he read to them and [...]