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 [...]
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 — [...]
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 [...]
In February I overheard Tweets about an upcoming event to be held in Dublin. “Breakthrough to Success“, a 3-day training course on Neuro Linguistic Programming and Neurological Repatterning, being offered by (the apparently famous) Christopher Howard at a cost per head of €1,200. It had slipped off my radar until I learned that three people [...]
The folks at the Islamic Cultural Centre of Ireland ran a seminar on Sharia’a Law on finance for the folks from the Irish banking institutions. I can’t help thinking it was organised at the request of bankers. Face it – if there’s a buck to be made the banks will want to learn about it. [...]
You are commissioned by Mr. Del Trotter of Peckham Springs Ltd. to carry out a survey of the population’s like/dislike of mineral water. Mr. Trotter would like to discover people prefer his product, though he doesn’t say it outright. So you head down to a predominantly Muslim area of London with your clipboard and approach [...]
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