Tag Ireland

BBC: The Catholic Church covered up 1972 bombing in Northern Ireland

Catholic Church and UK Colluded in Northern Ireland Bomb Cover-Up (video: Atheist Media Blog at YouTube) What exactly is it going to take to get the leadership of the Roman Catholic Church arrested and frog marched up to Den Haag to be put on trial for their incessant and ruthless crimes against humanity? Catholic Church [...]

Pat Condell: The Irish joke

Condell: “Save us from over-sensitive humourless idiots.” (video: Pat Condell at YouTube) Why can’t anyone take a joke any more? Spectator.co.uk Most people reading this will at some point have had the misfortune to meet one of those piggy-faced people who at a certain point in the conversation says, ‘Excuse me, but I find that [...]

The Quotable David Norris

“The recent passage of the Civil Partnership Bill by the Oireachtas in Dublin represents a very significant advance. It was a victory, not for gay people, but rather a victory for decency and for this country as a whole. “It is clear that we are very nearly there in terms of the accomplishment of full [...]

Ireland has gone and done it

Excellent news! The Republic of Ireland’s upper house has overwhelmingly passed the country’s civil partnerships bill. Ireland’s upper house passes civil partnerships bill Pink News A civil partnerships bill has now passed both houses of the Irish parliament and will go to the president to be signed into law.The bill, which grants almost all of [...]

Ireland moves closer to equality

The Republic of Ireland has taken a step closer to full equality. Ireland’s Minister for Justice, Dermot Ahern: “Our society has change[d] substantially in recent decades. While marriage is more popular than ever, other forms of relationships have become increasingly common; they create some difficulties in the legal system and require in our law a [...]

Colin Farrell stands against homophobia

Any old excuse to post a pic of Irish actor Colin Farrel will do. Thank you PinkNews.co.uk for this opportunity: Farrell said: “I can’t remember much about the years of physical and emotional abuse my [gay] brother Eamon suffered. I was very small. The thing I do remember though, quite literally, is blood on his [...]

The Feast of St Schadenfreude?

No surprise here. In the wake of the Catholic Church’s outlandish attempt to ‘poach‘ disgruntled, ‘conservative’ (the polite word for ‘gay-hating’) Anglicans, Jihad-Lite is declared by the invertebrate archbishop. Is this like the Feast of St Schadenfreude or something? Ireland Archbishop stunned by Dr Rowan Williams’ criticism of Catholic Church -Times Online www.timesonline.co.uk The Archbishop [...]

The Quotable Sinead O’Connor

“From the Pope on down, through the Vatican and therefore through the lower echelons, the whole organisation, in my belief, is utterly anti-Christian and evil, as proven by centuries of torture, bloodshed, burnings, terrorism, and coverings-up of “the worst crime” known to man. “And if Jesus Christ is to be seen in the vulnerable of [...]

‘Ex-gay’ charlatans confronted in Belfast

Via UK Gay News, we’re linked to an excellent article in the Irish lesbian e-zine Gaelick, on the protest at a prey-away-the-gay conference in Northern Ireland that was organized by the London-based journalist and founder of Stop Conversion Therapy Taskforce (SCOTT), Patrick Strudwick. Writes Canuck Jacq: The newly formed Stop Conversion Therapy Taskforce (SCOTT) protested an ex-gay [...]

Here’s to you Iris Robinson

Air New Zealand – Cougars on the Hunt – Offended? (video: miriamthrottling at YouTube) Apparently, according to blogger Joe Jervis, there’s a controversy surrounding this video. It’s claimed the video, created for Air New Zealand, “promotes predatory behavior.” Speaking of which … Here’s to you Mrs Robinson: I was going to post this video as [...]

Nell McCarthy lashes out at Archbishop

Reporter Nell McCafferty lashes out at a Catholic archbishop and his cronies (video: TV3 Ireland, via PardoDub at YouTube) Give’m Hell, Nell! From TV3 Ireland: Not only were dozens of priests abusing hundreds of children in the Archdiocese of Dublin over five decades, their superiors were either turning a blind eye or conspiring to cover [...]