Occasional Scribbles

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Sunday, July 26, 2026

'A social media star priest and his flock'

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The article below appears in the Weekend supplement of The Irish Times. Much of it already appeared during the week in the newspaper; why pr...
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Saturday, July 25, 2026

The Good News will always catch our attention

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Fr Robert McNamara, parish priest in Lisdooonvarna/Kilshanny in Co Clare, writes a full page article in The Irish Catholic of July 16; the h...
Friday, July 24, 2026

Titbits about UK's Prime Minister Andy Burnham's cabinet

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The new Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Andy Burnham has Irish roots and is a Roman Catholic. The new Secretary for State for Northern...
Thursday, July 23, 2026

A celebrity show where the celebrity talked about was God

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The article below appears on the digital edition of The Irish Times on Wednesday. It is about an event in Dublin where the speaker/star was ...
Wednesday, July 22, 2026

Prevost and Burnham might point us in a new direction

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This week's column in The Kerryman newspaper. Michael Commane Last week Aer Lingus announced they were shedding 500 of their 6,500 workf...
Tuesday, July 21, 2026

Dialogue involves being with people in their everyday lives

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Swiss theologian Karl Barth advised theologians to "take your Bible and take your newspaper, and read both" The sale of hard copy ...
Monday, July 20, 2026

The ghost of Hitler dictatorship goes down the generations

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The story of Otto John is worth a read; it tells something of the complexity of the human being. Click on    Otto John . On this day, July 2...
Sunday, July 19, 2026

'Let them both grow till the harvest ' (Matthew 13: 30)

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What would or could one take away from today's  Gospel (Matthew 13: 24 -43). It would be interesting to know what Jesus would have to sa...
Saturday, July 18, 2026

Boss of Aer Lingus holding company, IAG earns over €6.4m

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Aer Lingus announced on Thursday they were shedding 500 of their 6,500 workforce. That figure includes 140 cabin crew, 70 pilots and 290 off...
Friday, July 17, 2026

Argentina and the Falklands versus Spain and Gibraltar

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There has been media coverage of the Argentinian team chanting about the Falklands, or the Malvinas, as the Argentinians prefer to call them...
Thursday, July 16, 2026

Remembering day Ukraine declared freedom from USSR

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On this day, July 16, 1990 the parliament of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic declared sovereignty over the Ukrainian SSR. It was the...
Wednesday, July 15, 2026

Why take taxi when other ways of transport can be great fun

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This week's column in The Kerryman newspaper. Michael Commane It’s against my religion to take a taxi. I don’t consider myself mean, I l...
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