Did you know that our government made a deal with the religious orders to cover their costs in the Residential Institutions Redress Board? Of course you did: I told you HERE.
And did you know that the corresponding cost to the tax-payer of child-abuse by religious orders is currently in excess of one thousand two hundred [...]
When I was small, my auntie used to take me to the churches around Limerick . It was great being a kid in those days. Spooky exorcist shit: plaster saints and candles and all that Hollywood stuff, but almost free. No entrance fee except you had to put some money into a shiny box if [...]
Celebrations?
What are we celebrating? Some Welsh [tag]religious[/tag] nutcase arrived over here and filled us with a load of bullshit that eventually went on to become the Irish [tag]Catholic[/tag] church? The most dysfunctional and oppressive organisation ever to screw up the Irish people?
This we should celebrate?
No surprise that people drink excessively on St [...]
Do you know the Kaczyński twins?
No, they’re not a band. Jaroslaw KaczyÅ„ski is the Prime Minister of Poland and his identical twin brother Lech KaczyÅ„ski is the President. That’s some achievement, wouldn’t you say?
Here’s Lech:
And here’s Jaroslaw:
Here they are together:
Now, the Kaczyński boys are extreme Catholics of the kind we used to have [...]
Dalkey is one of the most charming and salubrious of South Dublin suburbs. It retains most of the character it used to have when it was just a village, clinging to the edge of Dublin Bay. These days, it’s full of bistros. Art galleries. Bijou residences for a million bucks a [...]
Excuse me, Taoiseach?
Eh-eh-eh-eh howya, Brendan? Are youse – I mean you – here about the poor little sick kids?
Yes, Taoiseach. I have the full report for you on the national children’s hospital.
Eh, no, no, Brendan. Just like, gimme da main bitsss.
Very well, Taoiseach. Well, we have a number of options for [...]
Archbishop Seán Brady
Armagh
Co Down
18th December 2006
Dear Archbishop Brady,
May I call you Seán? I read your comments in the paper today, and I have to tell you that I agree completely with almost everything you said. You’re quite right that there’s more coarseness and aggression in Irish society than there used to be. [...]
You might have seen this Bock rant a little while back concerning the deal made between our government and the RC religious orders whereby we, the taxpayers pay all but 127 million euros of compensation claims. This might seem like a lot of money for the religious orders to pay, until you realise that [...]
Isn’t there some big Catholic thing coming up soon, in early December? The Immaculate Assumption, or the Holy Dispersal. Something of that sort, anyway. The Blessed Emulsification, maybe.
In the past, it was the day when all the farmers used to head for their nearest urban centre to get completely blunted in the pub [...]
Charles Keating was sentenced to ten years in prison for perpetrating one of the greatest frauds in American history. The Savings and Loans scandal has gone down in history as one of the filthiest scams ever conducted, involving the defrauding of 17,000 people of their life savings. Many of these people were elderly, [...]
