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		<title>RIP Stephen Gately</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:50:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It doesn&#8217;t really touch me on a personal level that Stephen Gately has died, although it is always sad when someone dies and a tragedy when they go &#8220;before their time&#8221;. However, I did not know him personally, nor was I ever a Boyzone fan, so I&#8217;m not upset. I am irritated, though, by the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sardines in The Joy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 08:27:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am somewhat bemused by a news report on the RTE website about violence among prisoners in Mountjoy Prison. The article implies that the violence is related to overcrowding at the prison. I believe that prisons should do what they can to rehabilitate criminals so as to minimise the risk of repeat offences and part [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Land of saints and child abusers&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 11:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am angry. This week in Ireland, The Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse published its report after ten years (summary here – full report here). The commission investigated reports of the abuse of children in Catholic Reformatory and Industrial Schools over a sixty year period up to the 1980s. Such institutions were set up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s the matter with blasphemy?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 13:07:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Further to my post below, point 6.1.i of Article 40 of The Constitution of Ireland states: &#8220;The publication or utterance of blasphemous, seditious, or indecent matter is an offence which shall be punishable in accordance with law.&#8221; However, the Supreme Court ruled in 1999 that this point could not be applied in a legal case [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Irish Blasphemers, get your licks in while you can</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:41:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think I just woke up in the 1920s. The Irish Times on-line is reporting that Fianna Fáil (the Irish political party currently fucking up the country, if you&#8217;re not from Ireland) wants to make it a crime to blaspheme. Minister for Justice Dermot Ahern proposes to insert a new section into the Defamation Bill, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Childish nations</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 20:12:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recent events in Georgia have reminded me just how childish nations are. Various news articles have tried to explain Russia&#8217;s actions by stating that Russian pride has taken several severe knocks since the collapse of the Soviet Union, with many of its former subject nations rejecting Russia and joining the EU, applying to join NATO [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quelle partie de &#8220;Non&#8221; ne comprenez-vous pas?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2008 16:02:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to an article on the RTE news website, the French government isn&#8217;t happy with the fact that Ireland voted &#8220;No&#8221; to the Treaty of Lisbon. I didn&#8217;t vote because I live in Spain, but as I am quite pro EU, I would probably have voted &#8220;Yes&#8221;. But that doesn&#8217;t mean I think there should [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Introduction to Dublinese #1</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 18:12:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just in case any readers from beyond the sea decide to visit Dublin some day, I thought I would present the following scene to help you become accustomed to the local language. A young Dubliner, bumps into two friends in the street. Kaiser: Story, lads? Did yiz go t&#8217;the pictures last night? Eyelash: Hawaya, head. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do as Bertie says, not as Bertie does</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2008 12:32:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am not proud to be Irish. I am pleased to be Irish, but I am not proud. It is an accident of my provenance that I am Irish. I didn&#8217;t go away and work or study to become Irish, I just am. So I have no right to be proud. It&#8217;s not something I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do not pass Go</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2008 14:40:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Great Nobby</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There have been scandals about paedophilia among priests in the Catholic Church for some time now and I personally know people who were victims of such abuse. Ireland has not escaped such scandals and there are on-going enquiries. The latest twist in the scandal is that Cardinal Desmond Connell is seeking to prevent the release [...]]]></description>
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