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The fairytale ending! Every guilty person a winner! All legal and other expenses covered by the Taxpayer! ‘Good names’ restored – there may even be grounds for compensation! The law is an ass! How did it come to this? What seemed a good idea in January 1999 brought the Flood Tribunal later to become the […]

France, the most Muslim of European countries, suffered a number of Jihadist attacks this week which left 21 people dead and many more wounded. Trained by Al Qaeda the gunmen came from the Muslim controlled neighbourhoods which now exist in Paris and other French cities. They were cool and calm as one would expect them […]

Equality – what a wonderful word to start the year with! “My resolution for 2015 is that all citizens of Ireland will be equal” You can hear the politicians sing it out as they garner the votes for whatever cause they attach the word to. Who in their right mind would not want to vote […]

It started out with my inability to remember the items in the “12 days of Christmas” song! Failure in this matter ensures embarrassment when the inevitable quiz question comes along. I consulted Google to see if there were any theological labels that could be attached to the 12 rather ridiculous items as an aide-memoire. Alas […]

“He became what he was not without ever ceasing to be what he always was.” Something of a tongue twister but Athanasius (297 – 373) put it in a nutshell when he said it. There never was a time when Jesus was not. “Older than the world itself, he became younger in age than many […]

In former times spying was confined to listening to other people’s conversation from behind the door. Alternatively reading someone else’s mail was a way to elicit private information. In fact my father, having served in WW1 was reckoned to be too old to fight in WW2 but was assigned to a UK government unit in […]

In a week where we were treated to politicians behaving badly in the Dail the RTE graphically depicted the serious outcomes of teenage girls behaving badly on the internet. Unlike the antics in the Dail which were deliberate and planned the posting of sexy photographs of themselves on the social media ending up on global […]

The “ho ho ho’s” sound out from the High Street Stores and Shopping Malls proclaiming the presence of the fat gentleman in the red suit. He seems to arrive earlier each year having got himself mixed up with “Black Friday” this week. Perhaps this is not inappropriate as the Bishop of Myra (today’s Demre in […]

Who would have thought that the reading of the Shema by a bunch of Baptists this week would have led to a discussion on the nature of love and the influences on it exercised by heart and head. The passage reads: – Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the […]