Casanova – Begins With C, Ends With 'You're Fired'
You've probably heard of the ongoing 'fruit-bat fellatio' case, where a UCC academic is in trouble because of extreme prudery. A behavioural science lecturer mentioned a humorous, but nonetheless scholarly, fruit-bat study to a female colleague and was immediately done for sexual harassment.
By some chance I'd already [...]
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Censorship seems to be the order of the day.
Carol Coleman, bless her, tried to squeeze the Muhammad Vs. South Park debate into about ten minutes of The Wide Angle on NewsTalk today . While inviting a brash comedian to debate a Dublin Muslim leader might have seemed like a good idea at the time, [...]
Increasingly being reported by the media, for example, this Time cover story
The Iona Institute are a group of enlightened souls who generally spend their precious time on Earth opposing gay marriage(pdf) and contraception for teenagers(doc). I recently perused to some more of the Good News they'd like share with us: Religion is good for you(pdf).
Yes, [...]
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Local TD's celebrate their expenses
Have you been reading about the TD's expense accounts? Of course you have, it's been saturating the papers for weeks. The media really love bashing our benevolent overlords, don't they?
I usually take a contrary view whenever newspapers get all 'Daily Mail' over an issue like this. I try to see behind [...]
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
But doesn't that deny Destiny…?
A new law regulating the sale of Catholic mass cards went into effect yesterday. Or almost did, we're waiting to see if the High Court thinks that this section of the Charities Act falls foul of the EU monopoly legislation, of all things.
Under the new law, the Catholic Church will become [...]
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Here's what you'd see towards the back page in them days.
Kind of a Moonlighting vibe about the graphics
There's a new sheriff in town now, but this was the original Speakeasy bar on O'Connell Street. Monday nights were usually the domain of the Paul Duffy band, at whose gigs you would find the cream of Limerick [...]
Saturday, August 22, 2009
The institution of the free local paper is a cherished one. In the years before spellcheckers, the Limerick Post served us well as a source of amusement and embarrassment, with its articles on the beautiful Dock Road and cheesy advertorials. Here are a few clippings from July 1989.
Design from the late eighties
Of course the Post [...]
Childer's Road – 2019 AD
As I avoided the races by driving through some of the less well-known (to me) routes of Galway city centre last week, I was appalled by the number of new traffic lights that seem to have sprung up at every intersection, often midway on a stretch between two other sets of [...]
