Questions about potential child abusers

News report 2014. Girl who misbehaved at school is slapped across the face by her father and later beaten with a belt. Mother routinely beats children with wooden spoon. Mother […]

I’m struggling to understand many things about the Ian Watkins case. First, I struggle to understand why there isn’t a law that provides for the instant castration of anyone who […]

Two friends are chatting over a pint and and one of them is trying hard to explain what a Freudian slip is. Look, he says.  It’s when you mean to […]

What’s the difference between a Catholic priest and a doctor or a lawyer? Well, apart from the fact that a priest has no practical training in anything, the main difference […]

There was a time when Planet Ireland orbited its own smug, self-satisfied star, held on course by a mysterious force known as certainty.  That was an era when Irish missionaries […]

A watershed has been reached in Ireland’s relationship with the Vatican

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