This is a guest-posting by a professional with Rape Crisis Midwest, helping men and and women who have experienced sexual abuse.
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- If you tell, no one will believe you.
- If you tell, I’ll be put in prison and everyone will blame you.
- If you tell, I’ll put my fist through your face.
- If you tell, [...]

This baffles me. When exactly did somebody disconnect consequences from actions? When did it become possible to do whatever you want, no matter how bad or how stupid? When did it become impossible to totally screw up because no matter how much of a shit you make of things, some government agency will step in [...]

Do you know what a cell phone is? No. It’s not an American mobile phone.
It’s what the drug-dealing murdering scumbags in our jails use to run their operations while they’re locked up. And what they occasionally use to call in to radio phone-ins as happened yesterday when one particularly vicious retard phoned [...]

I was sitting out the back with my neighbour Jimbo the other night, relaxing by the light from a pile of old tyres we were burning.
Jesus, said Jimbo, this is the life.
Indeed it is, I agreed. Slosh another gallon of diesel on that fire there.
Right, says Jimbo. I’ll just throw on some [...]

You might have heard of the recent Fitzgerald Report on regenerating a number of troubled areas in Limerick. Squid included some local reaction to it, including this gem from a Father Pat Hogan, who’s based in the Southill area.
Where you have acute income poverty, you have poor literacy, truancy, poor parenting skills and all [...]

Not everything I write here is true. Did you know that? Sometimes I make things up to keep you amused, but occasionally life smiles on me and something just happens.
I was locking the Bockmobile yesterday at the supermarket when a small car pulled up beside me. The driver was a stocky, [...]

Let’s get this nonsense out of the way right now.
Paedophile is not a word. I remember when the perverts invented it about twenty-five years ago to cover up what they really do, which is the rape of children. The perverts started this thing they called the Paedophile Information Exchange, because they thought Paedophile [...]

Would you like to hear the story of the great big bridge and the tiny little mouse? OK then. Settle in and pull up those cosy covers while I tell you the story.
You see, what happened was this. Once upon a time, the government built a road from one side of the [...]

What about Seánie O Leary reaching out from beyond the grave to attack the Supreme Court? Wasn’t he right? In case you missed this, it concerns one of the more colourful of our Irish judiciary, Seán O Leary, an exceptionally bright fellow who suffered all his life from being the smartest boy [...]

I see the new Anti-social Behaviour Orders are ready to roll. According to today’s papers, the adult version will be available for the new year, with children’s asbos following in a couple of months. I see also, however, that the Guards won’t be ready to implement it because their Fancy-Dan computer system isn’t [...]