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Thursday, January 29, 2009

Whether to excommunicate or not

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Maybe it is that it is there somewhere and this writer cannot find it. But is the decree on the remission of excommunication latae sententia...

Treating cyclists with contempt

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It's sometimes easy to get the impression that the civil authorities in Ireland treat citizens in a most disrespectful manner. Anyone ...
Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Catholic school identity

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The article below appears in Tuesday's Irish Times. The archbishop makes some interesting comments. The teaching of religion in our sch...
Thursday, January 15, 2009

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Bus and rail fares have increased by 10 per cent since January 1. That means a monthly return fare from Tralee to Dublin is now €81.50 and a...
Wednesday, January 14, 2009

'Quiet fidelity'

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Cardinal Sean Brady has rejected calls for the resignation of Bishop John Magee. The archbishop said in Killarney yesterday that he knows Jo...
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Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Snooze time almost over

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On December 10 this blog began a snooze period. The snooze is about to end and the blog is due to be back in publication some time next week...
Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Snooze time

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This blog is taking a rest
Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Fr Michael O'Leary RIP

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Fr Michael O'Leary, a priest of the Kerry diocese, died last evening. Fr Michael, a native of Castlegregory in West Kerry, was in his 90...
Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Murdoch's influence in Ireland

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From time to time there is an opinion expressed within church circles that the media do not give a fair hearing to church issues. Print, TV ...
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Tuesday, November 18, 2008

The God question

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The article below appears in today's Irish Times. It makes for an interesting read. MAURICE MANNING RITE AND REASON: TP O'MAHONY is ...
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Thursday, November 13, 2008

The art of compromising

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Below is a report in today's Irish Times. How come people who are at the vanguard of speaking out against abortion say so little when it...
Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Staggering sums of money and great pain

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According to a report in today's Irish Times the Catholic archdiocese of Dublin has paid out to date more than €12.4 million in claims ...
Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Austin Flannery OP

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There is an appreci-ation of Austin Flannery in today's Irish Times. But it seems it is not on their digital version, so this blog is un...
Thursday, November 6, 2008

Weimar and Lisbon

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Anyone who visits the German Historical Museum on Berlin's Unter den Linden has to be struck with some of the similarities between the ...
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Wednesday, November 5, 2008

West Kerry to Dublin on two wheels

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A break from the serious world for a few moments. This blog makes great effort to write all its material in the third person. An interlude t...
Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Vatican suggests psychological evaluations

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The article below appears in yesterday's issue of The Irish Times . The heading, Church defends Vatican, is amazingly odd. Something aki...
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Thursday, October 23, 2008

Direct copy of what appeared on this blog

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Imitation is said to be the best form of flattery. Then again copying is simply plagiarism . The website 'Clerical Whispers' has an...
Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Fr Austin Flannery OP

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Fr Austin Flannery OP died of a heart attack today at Kiltipper Woods Care Centre, Dublin 24. Austin was born in Tipperary on January 1, 1...
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Thursday, October 16, 2008

On the margins of a conference

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Former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan addressed a conference at the Royal Hospital Kilmainham on world hunger organised by Concern Worldwid...
Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Comments of an African bishop

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A leading Catholic bishop in Africa says he'd obviously vote for the Democrat. The National Catholic Reporter describes Bishop Onaiyeka...
Thursday, October 9, 2008

Some questions make no sense

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On Tuesday in 'The Rite and Reason' column of The Irish Times , Fr David Keating, chaplain at Waterford IT argues that there is no n...
Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Happy Days at the Abbey

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Beckett's Happy Days , at present running in the Abbey Theatre as part of the Dublin Theatre festival, is superb. Fiona Shaw leaves you ...

On or off track

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Mix of rail and politics. Third pic down.

Worshipping false gods

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OPINION: The events of recent times require us all to reconsider the economic choices facing us, writes DAVID BEGG FOR THE last 25 years we ...
Thursday, October 2, 2008

Beckett at the Abbey

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This article is in today's Irish Times. The author of this blog was at university in Cork with Fiona Shaw and has the distinction of giv...
Wednesday, October 1, 2008

And still not a word

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On Tuesday, September 23 this blog contacted the Holy Faith Sisters asking them if they had made any comment on the late Eileen Flynn-Roche ...

The banker and the priest

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Eighteen years ago this Friday the two German states were united. October 3 is a public holiday in Germany to celebrate the date of unificat...
Thursday, September 25, 2008

Andreas Baader and Ulrike Meinhof

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Baader Meinhof film to be released this week in Germany.

Scientists need to challenge

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Interesting article below appears in today's Irish Times. Anti-GM and anti-nuclear advocates need to be challenged DR WILLIAM REVILLE UN...

No-one available for comment

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Since her untimely death of Eileen Flynn-Roche this blog has made two comments on the events that led up to the sacking. It has made referen...
Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Shenanigans at Ryanair

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Over the last few days Ryanair has made changes to its schedules. It is notifying passengers that flight times have been changed. Ryanair ...
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