Dara Hogan
@DaraHogan
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Into family, paragliding, atheism, humanism, scepticism, IT, photography, guitar, ukulele and harmonica. Founder of Fledglings at An Cosán (opinions are my own)
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Mother Nature at Downings Beach in Donegal this week is showing who's side she's on. 🇺🇦 💚💛 Great pic by Debbie Muldoon of 📸 Cavehill Photography.
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@ReginaDo
Very populist, Regina. None of us are amused at the effects of the pandemic but NPHET are providing objective, clinical advice and, as a politician, you would be well-ish advised to follow it! They have no vested interest other than our health. No point in shooting the messenger!
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@Sachinettiyil
2/2 ..until the nuns bowed their heads in prayer before he went for it. A muffled cheer arose from the altar boys & those wimpoles popped up but there was nothing to see. The excitement was infectious but the priest was also confused (his back was to the congregation). Memorable!
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@Sachinettiyil
I loved the small of incense when I served Mass at Loreto College Crumlin in the early 1960s. Our senior altar boy, who shall remain nameless, opened a book on whether he could swing the thurible through a full 360 degrees without the nuns noticing. Sure as Hell, he waited 1/2
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@OurMatHosp
@Berlinnaeus
I have an equitable solution. The Sisters of Charity are among 18 religious orders who reneged on their agreed child abuse compensation settlement. They still owe a total of ~€200m. The Irish State should CPO the site for €1 and the other 17 can repay the Sisters of Charity!
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@DavQuinn
Exactly the same for RE - schedule faith formation as the optional last class each day and watch our schools empty very quickly! Health Warning: those who stand near the school gates risk being trampled at 3:30pm!
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The bishops accuse the government of being "profoundly disrespectful" to
#CatholicChurch
. Maybe the government would be more amenable if the
#Catholic
orders hadn't stiffed the Irish State by reneging on €200m in clerical child sexual abuse compensation?
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@RositaSweetman
@BlackrockColl
What is galling is the hypocritical pretence of piety while telling women not to use contraception (or become priests), LGBTQs not to marry their lovers and all the time protecting fellow-priests who had raped and buggered our little children. Eradicate them from our schools now!
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@AuschwitzMuseum
Always worried that when I “Like” and/or “RT” terrible images from the
@AuschwitzMuseum
it could be misinterpreted. For the record I support the never-ending education of all people on the horrors of the
#Holocaust
so that it may ever recur.
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@Jimcorrsays
@rowley_dominic
Jim, the side-effects of the HPV vaccine is a sore arm. The side-effect of not being vaccinated is cancer and probable death. The incidence of reported side-effects to HPV are the same in vaccinated and unvaccinated groups of people. Read Professor Margaret Stanley of Cambridge.
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Why is there so much embedded misogyny in the organised religions? This latest report from Jerusalem reinforces the embedded misogyny of the Jewish religion. Why are they so afraid of women and why do so many women remain in organised religions?
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@DavQuinn
@TheSundayIndo
But just think of all the positives, David. Now we all have access to contraception, victims of domestic violence can divorce their abusive husbands, infertile couples can conceive with IVF, blasphemy is no longer a crime and gay people can marry! It’s all good news!
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@OurMatHosp
The hospitals should not be permitted to practise medicine unless they undertake to offer patients all legally-permitted reproductive medicine options including contraception, IVF and abortion.
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Delighted to see that Dublin Airport has abandoned its annual Christmas tradition of allowing a Catholic priest to bless the planes after John Hamill (formerly of Atheist Ireland) requested the right to hold a non-religious blessing. We must do more to separate church from state.
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@NikkeiAsia
Why are weak, irresponsible men in positions of authority? Yoshiro Mori reminds me of Sepp Blatter of FIFA (for whom it all ended in tears in 2015). In my experience, women beat men hands down for attention to detail and for emotional intelligence. Quite tiresome for Mr Mori!
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A very important and wise article from
@davidmcw
in this morning’s
@IrishTimes
. We all need to ponder on this in order to protect our children’s future.
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@Sachinettiyil
Sachin, if you’re going to pray (and I don’t), a much more worthy cause would be the welfare of the many child victims of clerical sexual abusers in the dioceses of Munich who were facilitated to continue their abuse by the failure of Benedict XVI to act in order to cover it up.
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@Berlinnaeus
The same "Christian" Brothers are evading paying the victims of their child sexual abuse by refusing to put forward a legal representative thus forcing their victims to personally sue all elderly, living "Christian" Brothers. Not at all Christian! Get them out of our schools!
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@Berlinnaeus
That’s because those nuns repeatedly abused women under the elitist misapprehension that the virginal nuns were “better” than the women who became pregnant outside marriage. They repeatedly enslaved them, under-fed them, over-worked them and trafficked their babies. Understood?
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@campbellsuz
I advised my daughters to always bring a heavy blanket when breast-feeding ; it should be thrown over the head of any objector!
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@rtenews
What’s really unworkable is the attitude of the vintners as demonstrated by the RTE Radio 1 reporter who visited 14 Dublin pubs this week and found none were COVID compliant and most were completely relaxed about the absence of the most basic basic COVID precautions.
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@sarah_nowha1234
@georgegalloway
That's a criminal assault - the attacker should be in custody tonight!
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@everybodyzzmama
@RexChapman
All they need to do is to snip the TV/Wi-Fi cable and he'll be gone in a flash!
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@MichaelKellyIC
You'll never need an abortion
@MichaelKellyIC
but many of your neighbors will and they will have to switch doctors because your GP places his/her religious beliefs above the needs of his/her patients. Happily there are lots of GPs who will look after their patients.
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@Berlinnaeus
In 1972, the same Fr Mick Cleary delivered our compulsory pre-marriage course in Loreto College, Crumlin. He lectured us on the evils of contraception before going up the road to sleep with his teenage house-keeper. Church wouldn't marry us without having completed the course!
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@DavQuinn
You couldn’t be more wrong. The big message is the need for teenagers to have comprehensive, open sex education covering all aspects of the subject. Sadly, the
#CatholicChurch
, which controls education in Ireland, has utterly failed on sex-ed and will soon be just an anachronism!
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I shot these two spaceships doing battle over Tallaght, County Dublin at lunchtime today.
#lenticular
#wave
#clouds
http://t.co/CyrJ8mCtPs
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@ellenmcoyne
@JillianvT
Picket the Pope on this! Mind you, the reneged upon €7 million pales in significance when compared with the €X00 millions they reneged on for their share of redress for clerical child sexual abuse. Why did the State not grab the €25 million they got for Marianella in Rathgar?
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@brendanjharkin
While you're at it, throw in the pounds/tons weight measurements, the feet/miles distance measurements and the US gallon liquid measurements and replace them all with the metric system!
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I may have a raw nerve with
@Toibin1
who has blocked me. He mentioned that
@DUPonline
had only 0.7% of the Westminster seat. I pointed out that
@AontuIE
only have 0.6% of
#Dail
seats but they’re still trying to impose their beliefs on the 66% who repealed the 8th. Truth hurts!
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@theshelbourne
Lynn Ruane got standing ovation at
@an_cosan
#IWD2015
lunch. Proof that education really supports women's potential.
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@BiddyEarly
@mhdelaney
@noteworthy_ie
@coodana
@thejournal_ie
By my reckoning the 18 religious orders still owe nearly €200 million on which they have reneged. The Minister should appoint a Receiver to liquidate their assets and collect what is owed! Any comment
@BMcKev
@DavQuinn
@MaryKenny4
@CatholicBishops
@ArchbishopEamon
???
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@DavQuinn
In those countries, criminals usually went though a short trial followed by a bullet in the back of the head. In Ireland, the religious orders swiftly transferred the priests who raped and buggered our children to new parishes where they abused more and more innocent children.
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@DavQuinn
That "one side" got 67% of the vote! Maybe you'd prefer the phrase "significant majority"? PS: No doubt the Angelus bells on RTE TV every day (except Sunday when we have Mass on RTE) are not "one-sided and propagandistic". They're tolerated by the majority who don't go to Mass.
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@ThinkingAtheist
I’ll see your rusty iron and raise you one pug’s back-side! His hands move with every step the pug takes.
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@tomdoorley
Galling that they wasted €38m & X years when Garmin offered their excellent Loc8 system FOC. An Post rejected EirCode system - are they even now, finally, using it? EirCode is completely unintuitive e.g. Portlaoise should be PL not R32, Dún Laoghaire should be DL not A96, etc.
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Great that Ireland’s only representative at Benedict’s funeral will be ambassador, Frances Collins. Hopefully, she can get an appointment with
@Pontifex
and ask him for the €200 million abuse payments on which Irish religious orders have reneged?
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Yesterday
@pontifex
prayed to
#god
to end the pandemic but 5.4 million have died since he originally prayed for this in March 2020. Prayers don’t work! He wants vaccines for the poor but he doesn’t fund them from
#CatholicChurch
net worth of >$20 billion.
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@stephenkinsella
@jerrybuttimer
AP were particularly generous to early education and they recognised that it is woefully under-funded compared with 2nd level and 3rd level. Chuck is an amazing visionary.
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@DavQuinn
@RTENewsAtOne
Your deny / deflect strategy is hopeless. We never claimed that all the mothers & children were abused and that none of the nuns gave a damn. We all realise that huge numbers mothers & children were abused and that many of the nuns were hateful abusers. Love & care was expected.
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@DavQuinn
Classic,
#CatholicChurch
paternalistic view i.e. even though the wife is no longer in love with her spouse, she should stay married because he's "a nice man". She should re-boot her life while caring for her children's needs and agreeing a fair, amicable divorce with her husband.
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@Berlinnaeus
@KenHarp35576228
Reminds me of the
#Catholic
mother of seven who listened in disbelief to the Archbishop and Chair of NMH, Holles St going on about the wonderful maternity services provided by the hospital. Her wry comment to the reporter was “I wish I knew as little about motherhood as he does”!
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@DavQuinn
@TheSundayIndo
David, it all depends on whether that army is responsible for oppressing the people who are firing at them. If so, then they should give back the lands that they stole in 1948 and let the Palestinians live in peace as neighbours of Israel.
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My grand-children were all breast-fed and I advised my daughters that, when breast-feeding in public, they should always carry with them a large, heavy blanket. This is to be thrown over the head of anyone who objects to seeing a child being breast-fed!
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@MichaelTakeMP
I’d love Dominic to have a much longer break - the word “indefinite“ comes to mind!
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@JohnMoroneyLH
It affects all of us when
#CatholicChurch
impose their warped ethos of misogyny, homophobia and covered-up child abuse in thousands of our schools while grabbing money from the credulous “faithful”. Happily, they’re already in terminal decline - can’t come soon enough for me!
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@kevinohigginssj
I’ll believe it, Kevin, when God emerges from those beautiful clouds, itemises my “sins” (most of which I really enjoyed committing), forgives me and takes me on a short aerial tour. Otherwise I’ll continue to believe that the sunset is entirely natural and ~4.5bn years old!
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@DavQuinn
Quite amusing how often your Tweets are unintentionally funny, David. I would ask why RTE gives so much credence to a tiny “institute” in Merrion Sq funded by American pro-life outfits. Iona really only speak for a small and declining number of fundamentalist Catholics.
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@orlatinsley
Was it simply that they'd be soaked in the rain and completely useless to anyone needing a coat? Who removed them?
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Fair dues to Claire Byrne but I feel that Sarah McInerney was a really excellent successor to Sean O!Rourke in this role - the role should have been Sarah’s!
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@rhasidatadeleke
Well done, Rhasidat - many congrats. We’re very proud of you! Just last week I brought my grand-daughter and her friends to Tallaght AC. PS: We’ll have to agree to differ on you being blessed - I say that your brilliant success is entirely due to your hard work - not to a deity!
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Excellent programme later on RTE1 TV "The Funeral Director" about David McGowan in Sligo. Moving footage of David making funeral arrangements with terminally ill Dougie Hopkins and then embalming him before his wake and funeral. Detailed footage of the embalming process too.
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@Berlinnaeus
The whole concept of an unaccompanied, celibate (?) male cleric meeting 1:1 in semi-darkness with teenagers who are required to confess fictional “sins” such as masturbation, impure thoughts, etc is completely at variance with today’s child safeguarding procedures. It must stop!
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@DavQuinn
...give or take the 700s babies in Bon Secours
#Tuam
cesspits & many other
#Catholic
mother & baby homes, the babies taken by nuns and sold to US families, the
#Magdalene
Laundries run by Sisters of Charity & Mercy, the 9 nuns' orders that still owe us €millions in compensation!
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Fine letter in today’s
@the_irish_times
from
@Berlinnaeus
on the subject of single-sex schools.
Yet another lazy piece in the Indo, from the increasingly irrelevant Ian O'Doherty, talking about immigration while declaiming that we're not allowed to talk about immigration. We're talking all right - it's just that we're not saying what he wants to hear.
#RefugeesWelcome
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You can’t keep creative people down! With the cancellation of the 2020 Edinburgh Festival, Gary McNair and others have launched
@ShedinburghFest
. They’re going to broadcast performances from their sheds and all profits will go to support new acts. Such a brilliant initiative!
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@DavQuinn
More than likely Biden is “anti-Tory” and that he dislikes Conservatives like Johnson who lied to the British people about Brexit and who callously breached the lockdown rules and partied while thousands of families were denied access to the bedsides of their dying relatives.
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@DavQuinn
David, what has risen is the number of recorded abortions. We can only guess at the number of Irish women who, pre-referendum, travelled abroad, imported medical abortion pills or resorted to back-street abortions. So glad Irish women now have safe, legal abortions when needed.
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@AuschwitzMuseum
Always worried that when I “Like” and/or “RT” terrible images from the
@AuschwitzMuseum
it could be misinterpreted. For the record I support the never-ending education of all people on the horrors of the
#Holocaust
so that it may never recur.
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They haven't gone away, you know! Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki from Cologne hid the file of his friend, a child-abusing priest, from the authorities. Quelle surprise! We urgently need to remove
#CatholicChurch
from every school and hospital without delay.
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@FergalBowers
@rtenews
I wish him luck - he served his country exceptionally well during the pandemic!
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@LordMayorDublin
@HumanismIreland
@AlisonGilliland
Great to see our CEO, Jillian meeting with the Lord Mayor Alison Gilliland in the Mansion House.
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@mdmak33
@annetted1234
@drboylan
#CatholicChurch
is doing endless harm with its antiquated misogyny & homophobia as well as its teaching of superstitious guilt to our children. They have no role in modern medicine. Your religious needs are private and should not be met by the state or imposed on the rest of us.
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@DavQuinn
A fair country would look at their motivation i.e. to impose their warped religious principles on the rest of us. The evidence of their approach lies in the discarded babies' bodies in Tuam and elsewhere as well as their denial of reproductive medicine to Irish women. Just go!
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@DavQuinn
@SenatorKeogan
@SenatorKeogan
is perfectly entitled to believe that surrogacy is morally wrong. However, she’s not entitled to impose her discriminatory beliefs on the rest of us who know that it is she who is wrong. Surrogacy is essential for those who want children but cannot have them.
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@DavQuinn
Quite the reverse,
@DavQuinn
- there are lots of people like me who believe that we need to take a rock solid stand against the
#IsraelGenocida
in Gaza. The killing of many thousands of women, children and elderly in
#Gaza
has serious consequences for the
#Isreali
people.
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@DavQuinn
@SunTimesIreland
2/2 hospital was built in 805CE in Baghdad by Harun Al-Rashid. There were also early Muslim and Hindu hospitals in Asia. None of these had any connection with
#Christianity
? However, Christians were involved in the Crusades, the Spanish Inquisitions and the burning of "witches"!
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@Sachinettiyil
@DavQuinn
Wikipedia says 2m in 1900 and 140m in 2000 which would mean mean that (in fewer years) you’re still exaggerating by >44%. Do you ever wonder why countries with better education systems produce far more atheists than impoverished, developing countries with many uneducated people?
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@cronin_siobhan
@stcypt
Siobhán, my friend from Kerry was on her way home this week when I expressed my concerns about King Puck’s welfare. She was amused at my suggestion that we release King Puck back up the mountain and, instead, suspend all the Healy-Rae males in a cage over Main Street, Killorglin!
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Breda’s missing the point! Those who, like me, are in favour of Assisted Dying are not setting out to end lives - we’re setting out to relieve pain and suffering. Also, it will be an option - not mandatory. So it will have no impact on those not in favour of Assisted Dying.
Breda O’Brien: Euthanasia is not a slippery slope. It’s a precipice
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We’ve opened the “Biden Bottle of Bubbly” to celebrate the new honourable, empathetic POTUS and his VP Kamala who will be superb role models for all Americans!
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@DavQuinn
David, in reply, I challenge you to come up with any other religious organisation in history with a worse record of hypocrisy i.e. preaching “God’s love” but always acting out their misogyny to oppress and to enslave women and to forcibly take & sell their babies abroad? Anyone?
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This article from
@IrishTimes
displays the same type of vicious, irrational religiosity that has been evident from the
#MotherandBabyHomes
report. Innocent children physically and emotionally abused by the
@SistersofMercy
. So much for their "good work"!
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@DavQuinn
@MichaelDHiggins
is the best! And he doesn't claim to be infallible? And he treats women and gay people as his equal. And he doesn't believe in superstition or taking Presidential oaths on Bibles. And he doesn't wear a white satin dress or a funny hat to make himself look taller!
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Wonderful results from our brilliant young scientists at
@BTYSTE
! What's so tragic is that, when the schools re-open, these great young scientists will return to St Mary's and St Patrick's to learn superstitious legends about virgin births, walking on water and raising the dead!
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At
#SEIawards
@LwatersAC
of
@an_cosan
won
@SEIreland
Elevator Award for Virtual Community College. So well-deserved!
http://t.co/iaBpx40wFl
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2/ Maybe the government would be more amenable if the
#CatholicChurch
hierarchy had not engaged in their systemic cover-up of clerical child sexual abuse for many decades resulting in thousands more Irish children being raped, buggered and abused by Irish priests and nuns?
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@DavQuinn
Wrong again! We
#Humanists
firmly believe in free will limited only by our respect for others and for the environment. We are not at all limited by superstition, by any imaginary deities or by an extremely wealthy
#CatholicChurch
with an unparalleled record of child sexual abuse!
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@simonpgold
@philipnolan1
The take-away is that there are many (tens of thousands) of Irish criminals and also criminals in the immigrant communities. Let’s ensure that our justice system treats them all fairly and acts in the interest of the law-abiding majorly in both communities.
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The personal tragedy for this man & his family is magnified by Ireland's failure to provide humane, compassionate end-of-life services for people who want to die. We must pass the Dying with Dignity Bill 2020 proposed by
@Ginosocialist
asap!
@EndOfLifeIE
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@tomdoorley
@ciarakellydoc
Religious fundamentalism in all its forms is a global social plague. We can be sure that the anti-choice brigade picketing GPs will completely differentiate themselves from the likes of ISIS yet their motivation is exactly the same - to impose their mores on the rest of us.
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Shameless stroke-pulling by the anti-choice brigade at Divine Word NS today in D14. A 2m high banner of Pope Francis in the hallway. Every voter has to pass within 50cm of the Pope. A blatant attempt to influence the undecided - it should not be permitted!
#Together4Yes
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Is it beyond the wit of RTE / Met Eireann to avoid nonsensical weather charts like this? Surely we could have an outline of the island of Ireland showing through the graphic? Having “Dublin” sticking up there on chart is no real help. Alternatively, just don’t show it at all!
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@MichaelKellyIC
The cultural tone of those times was set by
#CatholicChurch
who dominated civil society and government. They taught us that sex was sinful and that women were not equal to men. Virginal nuns were the paragon of all virtue and the epitome of respectability. Hence what they did!
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An interesting fellow-passenger on the
#16
bus today - an archbishop! Unlike other bishops, this one uses public transport. Moreover, unlike other bishops, this one was smiling, friendly and humble. If only all bishops were like this I might still be in the Catholic Church!
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@DavQuinn
That’s disgraceful David. More of your “whataboutery” - but this time it’s quite dangerous! Who would have driven the anti-choicers from the streets? All those good people who marched peacefully for women’s reproductive rights, abolishing blasphemy, introducing ME, etc. Dream on!
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@MichaelKellyIC
Isn't it amazing, Michael, that 100 billion people have been born in the last few thousand years and all died. No evidence whatsoever of an after-life or a deity. The imaginary God could permanently silence every atheist with just one documented appearance but it'll never happen!
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@rogerchilds2u
@orchidsbudget
You’re overdoing it in an unbalanced way. The last
@the_irish_times
survey I read had Mass attendance averaging 3X% nationally & as low 1X% in areas of disadvantage. This couldn’t possibly justify the twice daily faux Angelus. You need to promote the majority secular viewpoint.
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@Doncor_Leonie
Leonie,
@JillHumanist
(CEO of
@HumanismIreland
) met Lord Mayor
@AlisonGilliland
this week in a separate appointment and briefed her on our work on the separation of church and state, development of a secular education system, our ceremonies (weddings, namings and funerals), etc.
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