In 1925, Galway County Council appealed to the Bon Secours sisters to open a nursing home for mothers and babies. Fifty years later two boys stumbled upon a mass grave. Between 1925 and 1961 St.Mary’s Mother and Baby Home, Tuam, operated under the care of the congregation of Bon Secours. Reports now emerging about the ‘Home’ are what we have come to expect when dealing with institutions of the Catholic … Read More
#clubbersCognotes: Dancing On Narrower Ground
Belfast might not be synonymous with sweaty dancefloors and top-notch line-ups, but a fledgling scene has taken root and is dancing to the beat of its own drum. Tiarnán Ó Muilleoir dishes up the ravey gravy. If your knowledge of dance music and Belfast doesn’t extend further than the live news cycle, you might be surprised to find there’s more to it than dodgy pills and drunken teenagers fighting at … Read More
#outBeyond: Goddamn Louisiana
David Pakman examines some of the ‘facts’ taught in Louisiana schools under the state-approved ‘Voucher School’ system. Illuminating and depressing. Bible-based curriculum. At least 19 participating schools, carry textbooks that include facts such as: Dinosaurs and humans lived at the same time. Dragons probably existed The KKK wasn’t a bad organisation The Supreme Court enslaves fetuses (Pakman’s show is a regular insight from the US that’s worth a follow, here) … Read More
Full marks for Irish pro-life doctors
Why is the Institute of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and the Irish College of General Practitioners offering Continuing Medical Education points for attending the International Symposium of Maternal Health? In case you missed it this is the same symposium that stated “We confirm that the prohibition of abortion does not affect, in any way, the availability of optimal care to pregnant women.” Well darn they got that one wrong! For those … Read More
[Sky Wizard Affairs] Fear and Loathing At The Eucharistic Congress
FAS KEEPS FORCING JOB BRIDGE INTERNS ON US, SO WE GOT OURS GEE EYED ON COMMUNION WINE AND SENT THEM OFF TO REPORT ON CATHOLICISM’S GLASTONBURY.
[Flash Fiction] The Seer
He went to her and placed his little hands on her and said: ‘I make it better Nanny’. Her pain just ebbed away.
[Sky Wizard Affairs] Foetal Attraction
Youth Defence are pricks. Here’s their background.
rabble 4 Is Out Now! Youth Defence Are Pricks, Festival Madness, Asylum Seeking Gays and loads more…
While we sit here flicking from tab to tab, signing off on one pdf after another, we find ourselves writing about the same afflictions this country has been cursed with for all those decades.
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