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Another month, another depressing report on clerical child abuse..
The latest report on child abuse in the Dublin Archdiocese does not fail to shock. The abuse itself is chilling, depressing and appalling, but compounding it is the behaviour of senior bishops and cardinals as they conspired – over a 40 year pe...
The fine art of conversation
I’ve just posted this article to some local newspapers as part of my job as PRO for our local Toastmasters club, but I thought I would post it here also, as it’s a subject that interests me greatly. Please let me know what you think. Woul...
Minister calls for new bullshit limits
Spot the difference? Me neither. The Irish Minister for Transport, Mr. Noel Dempsey, announced yesterday that he is determined to press ahead with tough new bullshit limits in the face of a backbench revolt. Mr Dempsey, who works every second night a...
Two and three decades on..
Photo: GothPhil (Flickr - cc licensed) Today marks the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, an event I remember as if it were yesterday. The fall of the Berlin Wall was the high point of an astonishing period in world history, begin...
Thousands of pilgrims witness Nothing at Knock
via Declan McAleese (Flickr - creative commons licensed) KNOCK, Co. Mayo – 31 October 2009 Fifty thousand people from around Ireland turned up the town of Knock, Co. Mayo, today to see a glorious display of Nothing. The anticipation had been bu...
The file sharing debate
via MATEUS_27:24&2 5's photostream (Flickr) This week, the French government decided to adopt a”three strikes” policy against illegal file sharers on the Internet. Effectively, it means that if you are caught illegally sharing m...
