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Tuesday, August 31, 2010

The world of agents and clerics

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On the back page of yesterday's Irish Independent there is a story at the top of the page about how a cardinal tells a victim to 'st...
Thursday, August 26, 2010

The great Christoph Schlingensief dies

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Christoph Schlingensief, who was considered one of the most important figures in the German theatre has died. Schlingensief, who was also a ...
Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Nothing is ever simple and straightforward

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This column appears today in the regional papers in Ireland owned by Independent News and Media By Michael Commane The Leaving Cert results ...
Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Maxmillian better than Kevin but all a fraud

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Today's Frankfurter Rundschau reports that someone with the first name Maxmillian gets better marks in an exam than had he the name Kevi...
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An amazing moment of church history

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Cardinal Sean Brady’s interview on RTE Radio 1 today is a milestone in the history of the Catholic Church in Ireland.

The 'bad man' who is protected by a cardinal

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Reading the story below gives some insight into the control and power that leading authorities really have. The crazy situations that exist....

Weekday Mass in the Latin language

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St Kevin's Church in Harrington Street offers a Mass in Latin every weekday morning at 0800. Today there were 11 people present for the ...

Grammar at Trinity College

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Yesterday on RTE1 Radio the deputy provost of Trinity College in Dublin when talking about CAO offers said at one stage ".... have rose...
Thursday, August 19, 2010

Germn ICE crashes near Lamprecht

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AN ICE train of German Railways travelling between Frankfurt-am-Main and Paris hit a dust cart near Lamprecht in the Pfalz on Tuesday. The h...

Irish Rail charges €2 fee for laser card

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The week that Irish Rail is condemned for its careless maintenance programme it raises its fares. Up to now if you bought a ticket on the i...
Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Every address tells its own story

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John A Murphy has a letter in today's Irish Times Letter which the reader is given the correct spelling and meaning of the spot where Mi...

The hurlers and the bishop and his ring

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RTE last evening filmed an hour long programme on Ireland's ten greatest ever sports persons. Vincent O'Brien, Roy Keane, George Bes...

Crazy dress and in Latin to boot

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A cleric, presumably a priest, all dressed in black top to toe, wearing a 'cornered hat with tassel' is asked going into church what...
Thursday, August 12, 2010

The Vatican knows things we don't know

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And all the talk about the resigning bishops, who are not resigned. The usual suspects the usual comments. But who are the people in the Vat...
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Wednesday, August 11, 2010

A rail daft promotional fare

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In late July Irish Rail celebrated 150 years operations at Birdhill station and the oldest man in the village unveiled a plaque. Beside the ...

Call to women to miss Mass on September 26

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The article below appears in today's Irish Times. An interesting idea. Another idea might be if churchgoers decided for a number of Sund...
Tuesday, August 10, 2010

A kind, quiet man who was murdered

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Cyril Moran was a kind, quiet and inoffensive man. While living in Sligo in the mid-1980s I knew Cyril from his visits to the Dominican chur...
Friday, August 6, 2010

News is what someone wants to suppress

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Wikileak’s online release of Afghanistan war logs throws up interesting information on the war in Afghanistan. In The Irish Times of Saturda...
Thursday, August 5, 2010

A terrible anniversary

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Tomorrow 65 years ago, August 6, 1945, the US dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.

An island of two laws

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The article below appears this week in all the Irish regional newspapers of Independent News and Media. By Michael Commane I think it’s true...
Sunday, August 1, 2010

Where they were on that fateful day

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German television station ARD broadcast a programme this evening 'Where were you'. It was a documentary on how a number of people ex...

Irish Catholic columnist gets it ever so wrong

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Is anything at all changing in the mind set of establishment catholicism in Ireland? In the current issue of the Irish Catholic columnist B...
Saturday, July 31, 2010

Moving service in Duisburg

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This morning in the Salvatorkirche in the German city of Duisburg there was a service of remembrance for those killed in the disaster in the...
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Friday, July 30, 2010

All the Vatican's men

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The article below appears this week in the regional papers of Independent Newspapers. Has any organisation or institution ever been so much ...
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Tuesday, July 13, 2010

The hope and promise on the wings of Concorde

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Last evening Channel 4 showed an hour-long documentary on the rise and fall of the Concorde. The programme brought you right into the mind s...
Sunday, July 11, 2010

Pudding bomber dies

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The obituary of Fritz Teufel in Saturday's Irish Times is well worth a read. There certainly has to be an allegorical content to it. Wha...
Saturday, July 10, 2010

Getting the facts wrong

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On Sunday there was an incident on the railway near Mountrath where a man lost his life. The following day an Irish national newspaper repor...
Thursday, July 8, 2010

Haiti earthquake

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Monday July 12 marks six months since the earthquake in Haiti. This week Morning Ireland is reporting from the country and Ireland's. Pe...
Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Criticism of parliamentary democracy

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In the weekly newsletter of the Dominican priory in Tralee, dated July 4, there is an editorial-type comment, which compares democracy in th...
Thursday, July 1, 2010

The word according to Stanley McChrystal

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This link brings you to the famous Stanley McChrystal interveiw. Well worth a read. http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/17390/119236

Let the Irish people decide

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Below is an opinion piece written by Vincent Twomey, which appeared in The Irish Times on Tuesday, June 29. What is it about the article tha...
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