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George Morrison
December 24, 2011

Joy in Jesus

Carols come in three main groups, Tradition – “The Holly and the Ivy” Myth “The Snowman” and Biblical “Joy to the World”. The latter is belted out by every supermarket sound system with scant regard for the words but what a great melody! It’s attributed to Lowell Mason in 1836 with more than a nod […]

December 17, 2011

Blinded by Science

This week there has been much talk by scientists operating the Large Hadron Collider about finding a “god particle”. Great excitement was generated about this particle which they think exists but up till now has managed to remain invisible. One of the investigating groups of physicists thought their experiment gave a grain of credence to […]

December 10, 2011

An Adult Addiction

This week I opened an account with a new server for my emails. No one knew the address but I discovered 10 emails waiting in it. They all showed the sender as me although I had not sent them. Each had a caption of a sexual nature. After the initial moment of freezing I set […]

December 3, 2011

Euro worthless?

My father told the story of when he worked in Nigeria between the two world wars the currency was almost worthless. The basic coin had a hole in the centre and was used as a washer by the building trade. In fact when buildings were being taken down the labourers were paid in that currency […]

November 26, 2011

Womb for Rent

According to the press Ireland is lagging behind with its implementation of surrogacy laws. Children are arriving in Ireland to find their pedigree is flawed. They have emanated from a surrogate mother who they are unlikely ever to meet but who, in some cases, has imparted her DNA to the child. Just when we were […]

November 19, 2011

Trial by Telly 18th November

We have been conditioned by the media, helped perhaps by more than a little personal bias, to take the word of a Prime Time Investigator over against the word of a Priest. Our prejudice was helped by Fr Kevin Reynolds laughing dismissal, made to the RTE Investigative reporter Aine Kavanagh, of the charge of the […]

November 16, 2011

President with an older wisdom

The inauguration of Michael D Higgins as our 9th President was the crowning event of the week. The people had spoken to the tune of over 1 million votes in his favour and with this comfortable mandate he addressed us who are “fragile as an economy and wounded as a society”. Paraphrasing James Connolly, the […]

November 5, 2011

Drink

Lower drink-driving limits came into effect last week, reducing the maximum blood-alcohol level to 20mg per 100ml of blood in some cases. The changes, which bring Irish law into line with European levels, will see the current limit of 80mg drop to 50mg for most drivers. Under the regime, professional drivers, learner drivers and those […]

October 29, 2011

All Kinds of Everything

It’s been a week which could be summarised by the song with which Dana won the Eurovision Song Contest many moons ago. I’m sure she hankered for these old days when she struggled to keep in contention in the Presidential election stakes. All kinds of everything appeared, as skeletons were dragged out of the cupboards […]

October 22, 2011

Arab Autumn

48 If Autumn’s here can Winter be far behind? What now Libya with Qaddafi gone? Has the unifying force of common hatred for their ruler been the glue that held the different tribes together? Officials of the post-Qaddafi government have said that the death or capture of Colonel Qaddafi would allow them to declare the […]

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