If you want to see a classic example of intellectual dishonesty by someone purporting to be a professional, you should read Dr Marie Keenan’s article in today’s Irish Times.
It was written following a conference of clergy about something the Pope wrote: Deus Caritas Est, which translates to God is Love: not an unreasonable proposition [...]

Textbook delusional behaviour is characterised by false fixed ideas, impervious to logic.
Now, if you were a doctor in a hospital , and I told you not to feed my baby, what would you say?
You’re mad! is what you’d say.
No, I’d insist. I have a belief that it’s wrong to feed babies. And the Missus [...]

So Dublin Bus is going to have a bit of a wobble? National fucking news! Front page of the papers. Headlines on the telly.
Do you know something? I couldn’t give one flying, perforated fuck about Dublin bus services.
Dublin is a ridiculous urban sprawl generated by corrupt politicians and the vicious, unprincipled [...]

Five billion, by Jesus! Five billion. Roll that around your tongue there for a minute like a good smoky, solid old Irish whiskey. Five billion.
It doesn’t sound much when you say it fast, does it? Five. Billion.
That’s how much our government plans to spend on the new Dublin metro. [...]

I went to the Energy Show at the RDS recently and I was just amazed by the things I saw in Dublin.
Amazed, I tell you!!
The tall buildings, all the traffic lights, the beautiful cosmopolitan people rushing around with their phones, closing high-powered stock deals and ordering the overthrow of foreign leaders. And the speed! Jesus, [...]

Years ago, when I used to live in Dublin, I went to a match at Blackrock. In those days, Limerick guys living locally would turn out in support of any Limerick club coming to play a Dublin side and petty rivalries were set aside for the duration, while the Limerick crowd beat [...]