Old Sneezes

Archive for May, 2009

Church and State

Sunday, May 24th, 2009

I am an atheist.
Moreover I class myself as a devout and fundamentalist atheist with a deep hatred of all religion.
That Ireland’s social mores and laws are based on Catholicism has made me so.
I hated having to attend a Catholic run school. But that’s all there was.
When a judge once tried to insist I swear an [...]

Picture this

Friday, May 15th, 2009

There’s to be a wedding in July. A posh affair – she’s not even pregnant.
They’ll make a lovely couple. Good humoured, witty, hard-working and almost mentally stable.
The stag was last weekend. There’s not much to tell. A vow of omertà was taken I’m told.
There was a pre-hen party too. The chicken as the ladies called [...]

Emergency Needs Payments

Sunday, May 3rd, 2009

More cash-strapped families than ever are turning to the government for financial assistance to cover the cost of the rite read the strapline to an article entitled Parents seek state alms for communion in today’s Sunday Times.
More than 8,000 families have claimed €2.27m in emergency-needs payments this year — an average of €284 — to [...]

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