@squinteratn@BBCgmu On the bright side, if, like any good protestant of ancient lore and opposed to Romanist breeding habits, he had himself sterilised, I would regard sanitisation as quite a benign side effect in his case!
@JamieBrysonLLB Even in your colour-by-numbers law book I think you will find that Chief Mobster trumps Chief child molester, or drugs baron or convicted murderer or any others among your serried ranks of your objects d'amour.
@newryhurler1@irish_news@neil_loughran JMJ! I hadn't heard this one for a long time. An inquorate Dail somehow passes absolute and untrammelled authority to one member who's mandate was spent before Ernest Blythe cut the old age pension! Apostolic succession. How democratic. People have died because of this nonsense.
@Udlah "A protestant parliament for a protestant people", of course its gone. But protestant culture? Of course not. Look southwards, through the myths and propaganda, to rhe great Gaelic scholars in TCD. Canon Goodman in Skibbereen, like Bunting collection, the Linen Hall Library.
@StephenM Can't disagree. Never has a democracy been unravelled with such ease. The "founding fathers" have proved themselves to be lousy at forward thinking.
@AnnieForTruth@HarryRegician Because, bit by bit he has silenced the press and media corps. Always the plan. Now everything is a crazed announcement with tamed "journalists", soft questioning and billing and cooing. Otherwise, it's just shouting abuse drowned out by ambient noise.
@BBCMarkSimpson Relax Rarely has such clesr evidence been given that will hang like a millstone around the neck of every parade application by the OO in the future.
@laurenttomas1@bhpaterson Oh I don't deny your instincts and core values are correct. But blanket moral condemnation is the tool of maga! You have horse shoed into them.
@laurenttomas1@bhpaterson That's how to combat polarisation? Abuse a majority of the electorate who actually voted by adopting a "moral purity-style stance " effectively morally damning their choice? Who's side are you on?
@CatharineHoey You were privileged to serve as a English mp representing an English constituency. I seem to remember you as being a reasonable and progressive public representative. Then you quit. Got your "reward". Then out came the tribal, vituperative bile. Which was the self-serving pose?