consentsIn January, Dublin City Council unanimously approved the motion “As a gesture to all of those who suffered as a result of clerical abuse, this council agrees to change the name of Archbishop Ryan Park, Merrion Square, and that this be done by inviting Dubliners to submit their ideas on an appropriate name for the [...]
I’ve watched the DVD that a few friends of Cathal Ó Searcaigh put together a few weekends ago in Nepal in his defence. It was distributed at the press conference that Liam Gaskin, Ó Searcaigh’s media advisor, held yesterday. It is footage that should be seen by anyone who sees Fairytale of Kathmandu tonight, but, [...]
“A man doesn’t become a hero until he can see the root of his own downfall”
Aristotle
In Oscar Wilde’s case, his downfall came about when, at the peak of his career, he sued the Marquess of Queensberry for libel. Defence council Edward Carson discovered a long line of rent boys willing to testify, and so the [...]
I received this statement from Cathal Ó Searcaigh today, via Liam Gaskin, his media advisor.
It is with a heavy heart that I have read and listened to the media comment about the documentary “ Fairytale of Kathmandu”. I opened my life and work in Nepal to someone I considered a friend. Someone who had made [...]
I’ve seen the film by Neasa Ní Cheanáin, Fairytale of Kathmandu, on the gay poet Cathal Ó Searcaigh, and I’m writing a piece for Hot Press about it, which will be published next week. (It’s now on my blog here.) I’m very angry at the way he has been treated. This is just a quick [...]
The Irish Times reports:
“In what is an otherwise ‘gender neutral’ Bill, one section makes clear that if an underage boy and girl have sexual intercourse with each other, the boy commits an offence but the girl does not.
Minister for Justice Michael McDowell told reporters last night that the Government had decided on this so as [...]
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