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May 2, 2015

Baptist SSM Statement

This week the finishing touches were put to a statement from our Leinster Pastors on the controversial subject of same-sex ‘marriage’. It will be distributed this coming week, in good time for the planned Referendum on the 22nd May. With SSM now legal in the UK (but not N Ireland) and gay unions being recognised […]

April 25, 2015

Armenian Genocide

In this decade of remembering anniversaries the Armenian one, which was commemorated this week, almost escaped our attention. Indeed it is not an easy task to find Armenia on the map, tucked in between Turkey on the West and Kurdistan on the East and having Russia and Syria as neighbours on the other borders. It […]

April 18, 2015

Take a Hike

Once upon a time you could tell when the tourist season started by the queue of Wallace Arnold busses that blocked Nassau Street! Nowadays its different tourist’s fly and motor in at a great rate. Thanks to the allure of our advertisers many come bound for the “Wild Atlantic Way”. Ireland has been slow to […]

April 11, 2015

Who am I?

Hullo, this is supposed to be a blog not a session on the psychiatrist couch! But the papers are full of this stuff. The gender-benders are out in force. “Your identity”, they say, “is a social construct”! By which they mean you can choose to be male or female. It’s not as if we hadn’t […]

April 4, 2015

Ornua

This week the milk quotas were finally lifted. To mark the event the Dairy Board coined a new name – Ornua – new gold. At least that’s what the dairymen hope! Taking a leaf out of the successful marketing of our butter as Kerry Gold and giving it a bit of mystique by dipping into […]

March 28, 2015

German Wings

This has been a bad week for anyone nervous of flying. The downing of the Airbus A320 in a remote valley of the French Alps by a deranged co-pilot points to the impossibility of having absolute safety in the air. The likelihood is that there will always be something that no one imagined could possibly […]

March 21, 2015

The Icing on the Cake

Not any old icing but one that is highly provocative for those who hold the contrary view. The caption to be written on the icing was “Support Gay Marriage”. Gareth Lee a Gay activist from the local organisation called ‘queer space’, who ordered the cake, cannot be accused of being subtle! The bakery was founded […]

March 14, 2015

It’s for the Birds

I know the expression is a bit dated, usually referring to a flawed idea, but in this case I mean it to be taken literally! There was a lull in the wintry weather this week so the bird-boxes went up onto the Scotch Pines in front of the house. Both boxes had been cleaned out […]

March 7, 2015

50 Shades of Gay

This week we saw another implication of the widespread ‘gay’ movement. We had noted the incredible fuss created when Asher’s Bakers refused to bake a wedding cake for a same-sex marriage on the basis of their Christian profession. But that was not us. That was in the North of Ireland. They, to a certain extent, […]

February 28, 2015

Donors Delight

It is 8 years since I wrote the Blog “Daddy is a Donor” where a middle-aged man living in a caravan with 4 dogs was about to discover he had spawned six kids! Of course it was in California so we did not pay much attention! Fast forward to today when, with great haste, we […]

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