lawsBreda O’Brien, of the Iona Institute, wrote an article for the Irish Times last month with the intriguing title: “Activists using ‘homophobia’ label as a bullying tactic”. She opens her piece by patting herself on her back: “it takes courage to champion traditional marriage, knowing it will unleash invective from alleged liberals”.
So: the plucky [...]
“There was nothing in Irish law to suggest that a family of two women and a child had ‘any lesser right to be recognised as a de facto family than a family composed of a man and woman unmarried to each other and a child’”. So says Mr Justice Hedigan in a recent High Court [...]
As I was going to bed last night I heard a raucous rendition of “Happy Birthday” from across the road from my window, and my heart sank. I knew I was in for a sleepless night. And so it proved. Two hours later, and I was woken up by screams and the unmistakeable sound of [...]
I’ve decided to publish my formal complaint to Stephen Rea, editor of the Evening Herald, here, further to this blog post and this article about the story. The offending article, by Cormac Looney, is here.
My email two weeks ago to the Herald, with the subject line “Complaint to the editor about front page story [...]
A Fine Gael TD, Simon Coveney, recently called for “aggressive, tough” legislation to target people who use prostitutes in Ireland. He wanted to target the “acceptability” of buying sex. Sometimes, that party really scares me.
I am not convinced of the efficacy of using the law to change social mores. Certainly, the law has a big [...]
It’s been the busiest few days this blog has seen, in its two years’ existence. Bizarre that it should be Barbra Streisand herself that should propel it to such activity (it’s so gay). At the time of writing this post, that page has been viewed by 1,736 people, two-thirds of whom found it via Google. [...]
I read in today’s Evening Herald (not available online) that “sources have revealed” that charges are going to be made against “at least” one man, a married scout leader, for having sex with a 14-year-old in the story that broke four months ago, which I wrote about in the 14-year-old on Gaydar. Despite reports at [...]
I found myself disclosing more than I wanted to about matters personal on my blog recently in an intense disagreement with someone, and I felt tawdry, soiled by the experience. I could delete the whole thing and make it go away but I would rather let it stand and try and learn from it.
The [...]
(T)he allegations… “standing whilst naked watching X whilst X was getting changed to take a shower in a manner which X found uncomfortable; getting into the shower next to X, turning to face X without turning on the shower and starting to masturbate and leaving the showers with an erect penis and watching X in [...]
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