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More State money for the Catholic church

Friday, February 13th, 2009

Mary Hanafin, Minister for Social and Family Affairs, loves making press releases.
Last week she considered making two lousy PDF files available for download worthy of a press release.
On Monday, she said the current economic situation was putting “new stresses on family life” and duly allotted €7.8 million to counselling services. Who gets the lion’s share? [...]

Publicans and Pharisees

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

I don’t know much about Pharisees. Maybe they’re the folks that make the telescopes.
But as a stereotypical Irish male, I know all there is to know about Publicans. Stingy robbing bastards the lot of them[no citation needed]. The bastard that owns my local has rubber pockets in his jeans for robbing soup.
Down through the years [...]

A Lidl courtesy please

Saturday, January 12th, 2008

Roughly once a month I go to the German shop to get all the all the stuff I didn’t list here. For a discount store that gets bad press betimes, I have always been overwhelmed by the service. Until this week that is.
A trolley with 6 trays of cat food for my neighbour, who, by [...]

The nameless ones

Friday, September 7th, 2007

MacKozer has been writing about racism lately. In his latest piece he recounts the story of a Polish man in the UK found guilty of rape and murder despite evidence to the contrary. (The John Cornwell reference in the article can be found here). Prior to this, he wrote about the growing number of homeless [...]

In Britain they …

Friday, August 24th, 2007

Now some crowd called the Metropolitan Police Sikh Association (MPSA) in London have gotten into the should Gardaí be permitted wear turbans debate. They say the uniform policy was 40 years behind the United Kingdom and accused the Gardaí of racial discrimination.
Well lads, do you know what you can do? You just go fuck off! [...]

Nás, Nas, Nais – Yet another naming debate

Friday, July 20th, 2007

The county of Kildare, sometimes referred to as the land of the three S’s (sheep shite and soldiers) is more widely known as the short grass, due to the grazing of sheep on The Curragh plain. Her residents are known as Lilywhites. Or at least we were. The Central Statistics Office has just reported that [...]

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