my mum said once when she was driving her sister Joan from Dublin to Kilbrew she pointed at a very grand house somewhere and said that's where Bono grew up, but she said it was nothing on the mansion the Coyle's of Tayto crisps fame lived in! It wouldn't surprise me if he wasn't catholic.
― calzino, Tuesday, 6 October 2020 20:40 (three years ago) link
I just googled, catholic dad, protestant mum, grew up going to church of Ireland, went to a catholic primary school and a protestant secondary.
― here comes the hotstamper (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 6 October 2020 20:42 (three years ago) link
classic centrist twat!
my mum has an obsession with the Coyle family because at some point they wanted to adopt her and save her from her freerolling not very good parents who used to go missing for weeks, but it didn't happen and she ended up in the care of an industrial school instead!
― calzino, Tuesday, 6 October 2020 20:46 (three years ago) link
christ, that's unfortunate.
― here comes the hotstamper (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 6 October 2020 20:47 (three years ago) link
when I was talking to her earlier she says her brother (who died earlier this year of prostate cancer) who represented + organised of dozens industrial school survivors in taking their case against the Catholic church has left his archive of interviews and documents related to that casework to Sheffield University.
― calzino, Tuesday, 6 October 2020 21:14 (three years ago) link
All this trolling of Bono on Twitter today is really unfair. He went through enough in Long Kesh. pic.twitter.com/jskRl4VBPH— Patricia MacBride (@IRLPatricia) October 7, 2020
― calzino, Wednesday, 7 October 2020 15:59 (three years ago) link
big shout out to the historically racist housing policies in islington council that have left a large enough irish population in my neighbourhood that sainsburys stocks barmbrack.
― plax (ico), Thursday, 29 October 2020 16:22 (three years ago) link
Plax I’m wildly jealous. N7? The oifig an phoist there was full of seandaoine the day I visited.
― liberté, égalité, scampé (gyac), Thursday, 29 October 2020 18:40 (three years ago) link
lol just the angel sainsburys
― plax (ico), Thursday, 29 October 2020 19:19 (three years ago) link
how good is brack tho
no ring unfor
I don’t like brack tbh tbh but I’ve been to that angel many many timesHowever I will tell you I introduced the other half to purple snacks over lockdown and he’s a fan. Like so many things though, they’re not as nice as they used to be.
― liberté, égalité, scampé (gyac), Thursday, 29 October 2020 19:26 (three years ago) link
tempted to try the shop in the irish centre a go someday soon
― plax (ico), Thursday, 29 October 2020 19:41 (three years ago) link
would love a purple snack, if you could get a purple snack
You can buy 3 6-packs on Amazon for £10, not great but cheaper than the last time I bought them at home.
― liberté, égalité, scampé (gyac), Thursday, 29 October 2020 19:46 (three years ago) link
But I’ve wanted to go to that shop for ages, will you see if they have Polo biscuits? I really miss them.
― liberté, égalité, scampé (gyac), Thursday, 29 October 2020 19:47 (three years ago) link
will report. i suspect its just cidona taytos and that ballymaloe stuff
― plax (ico), Thursday, 29 October 2020 20:27 (three years ago) link
find me somewhere in london that sells annascaul black pudding and i'll be really impressed
Love this story
Priests have said they are upset by the "very hurtful criticism" of "mass-hoppers" who go from one online mass to another passing comments over their "performances".https://t.co/GqTjbDLIax— Independent.ie (@Independent_ie) November 10, 2020
According to Fr Tim Hazelwood, a spokesman for the Association of Catholic Priests (ACP), which represents over 1,000 Irish priests, "mass-hoppers" are undermining many priests who are already self-conscious and are "not performers".
― scampus fugit (gyac), Thursday, 12 November 2020 08:02 (three years ago) link
I heard there was a suggestion that Xmas be moved to late January to help combat Covid.I was buying bread and this story came on the news on the radio while i was doing so.So that's it then. Canceled Ester and all the oher parades this year.Bah humbug
― Stevolende, Thursday, 12 November 2020 09:16 (three years ago) link
masshoppers need not apply xp
― you are like a scampicane, there's calm in your fries (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 12 November 2020 09:29 (three years ago) link
The thing is this is just the kind of stuff that goes on in a lot of households, but can’t imagine it’s much fun hearing the unfiltered verdict of a critical Irish granny.
― scampus fugit (gyac), Thursday, 12 November 2020 09:46 (three years ago) link
It goes on in the church hall over a cup of tea ten minutes after communion.
― Clean-up on ILX (onimo), Friday, 13 November 2020 21:44 (three years ago) link
I remember a local priest having a following. he was moved to my old parish when it came free upon the death of the old priest, he brought a following with him from the other parish, as in tens of people, and gave all the lay person roles like sacristan etc to members of this group. a lot of the locals didn't rate him, but some fell under his spell
― Politically homely (jim in vancouver), Friday, 13 November 2020 22:00 (three years ago) link
so many priest are fucking shit at saying mass. lots of nervous ones who can't hold eye contact
The flashy ones are going to set up their own Padréon accounts.
― trishyb, Saturday, 14 November 2020 00:37 (three years ago) link
I feel sick, I feel sick, we are in hell.
An MP stood in the House of Commons today and called a man that was shot dead in front of his wife and children “the IRAs solicitor of choice” and it hasn’t caused a ripple over there.I still can’t get over it— Seána (@GrantSana) November 30, 2020
― scampus fugit (gyac), Tuesday, 1 December 2020 00:24 (three years ago) link
Was chatting shit about the wrong fucking party as well, but hey, Paddies right
I'm not in Sinn Féin and I think what the government have done is a total disgrace. Do you think it's OK for a government to murder it's own citizens then refuse a proper inquiry into that murder @LordIanAustin ? https://t.co/M10M1MQ9ZN— Colum Eastwood (@columeastwood) November 30, 2020
― scampus fugit (gyac), Tuesday, 1 December 2020 00:28 (three years ago) link
Lord Ian Austin. Horrible cunt.
― ILXceptionalism (Tom D.), Tuesday, 1 December 2020 00:37 (three years ago) link
I think that the British establishment is moving away from being able to handle a topic like finucanes murder and the surrounding collusion at light speed tbh, the bloody Sunday apology feels like it's likely to be an anomaly in so many ways
― spruce springclean (darraghmac), Tuesday, 1 December 2020 00:53 (three years ago) link
Yes. Have tried not to think about it much all day because I might cry when I do
― scampus fugit (gyac), Tuesday, 1 December 2020 00:57 (three years ago) link
fucking Baron Ian Austin makes Frank Field (who was good friends with Thatcher) seem like a moderate, a sickening little creep.
― calzino, Tuesday, 1 December 2020 08:36 (three years ago) link
As a QC who specialised in human rights issues, it’s very odd that the leader of the Opposition at Westminster, Keir Starmer, hasn’t said a word about the Govt’s failure to announce a public inquiry into the state’s illegal killing of a fellow human rights lawyer. Remarkable even— Chris Hazzard (@ChrisHazzardSF) December 1, 2020
― calzino, Tuesday, 1 December 2020 08:43 (three years ago) link
the diminutive dog-shagger Austin deleted his Finucane tweet, even some of horrible tory friends said he was trying a bit too hard.
― calzino, Tuesday, 1 December 2020 21:32 (three years ago) link
Has the man ever spoken for the nation so well?
Same. pic.twitter.com/987xdfc7G3— Gavan Reilly (@gavreilly) December 2, 2020
― scampus fugit (gyac), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 15:29 (three years ago) link
sounds dope rly
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 15:48 (three years ago) link
He sounds sincere tbf
― spruce springclean (darraghmac), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 16:44 (three years ago) link
As sincere as I’ve ever seen him
― scampus fugit (gyac), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 16:47 (three years ago) link
Newgrange stream from 8.45 here
― scampish inquisition (gyac), Monday, 21 December 2020 08:38 (three years ago) link
loved this
― plax (ico), Monday, 21 December 2020 10:21 (three years ago) link
got a result this morning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esAkRoqjKx4
― Number None, Tuesday, 22 December 2020 11:46 (three years ago) link
I had an early meeting this morning so I’m sorry to have missed this one, but I’ve loved watching this week. It really makes you feel privileged to be able to witness it.
― scampish inquisition (gyac), Tuesday, 22 December 2020 11:55 (three years ago) link
I feel like Newgrange is somehow underrated? Like everyone knows about it, you learn about it in school, and it's just always...there. But when you go and stand in that chamber and feel the actual weight of history above you... It's magical
― Number None, Tuesday, 22 December 2020 12:03 (three years ago) link
On the first stream, when they had a beautiful clear day and the sun was entering the chamber, they had a lovely shot of the “sun dagger” from above and your man said “when i see this, the word ‘immutable’ comes to mind, in other words we are touching the ancestors, and we are experiencing something that five thousand years ago was similarly experienced”.
― scampish inquisition (gyac), Tuesday, 22 December 2020 12:48 (three years ago) link
But when you go and stand in that chamber and feel the actual weight of history above you... It's magical
The lack of development around it is great as well. When you go and stand on that hill and there isn't a major road in sight or a housing estate, or anything beyond a few farms, it's beautiful.
― trishyb, Tuesday, 22 December 2020 14:17 (three years ago) link
Anne Rabbitte at it again, I see.
In April 2019, Rabbitte criticised plans to excavate the site of the former Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home in Tuam, describing it as "a wilful waste of public money", and questioned if the intention was to dig up every cillín (burial ground for stillborn and unbaptized infants) in Ireland.
Rabbitte: "As a mother I wonder what sort of societal pressure I'd have to be under to turn my back on my children… society must be responsible for forcing the hands of these families… the circle of blame is vast"— Gavan Reilly (@gavreilly) January 12, 2021
― scampish inquisition (gyac), Tuesday, 12 January 2021 17:00 (three years ago) link
If RTÉ replaced the Angelus with a minute dedicated to someone who died in the M&BH, one day dedicated per each individual, that would be 25 years for the babies alone— Suzie (@leninjapirate) January 12, 2021
― scampish inquisition (gyac), Thursday, 14 January 2021 11:21 (three years ago) link
Fuck
― Ole Blueyes Solskjaer (darraghmac), Thursday, 14 January 2021 11:26 (three years ago) link
Yep.
― scampish inquisition (gyac), Thursday, 14 January 2021 11:26 (three years ago) link
Somebody in Moscow has built a replica of iconic Dublin pub @ODonoghues15. What’s more, unlike the ‘real’ version, it’s open, has customers in it, and is selling pints. pic.twitter.com/EEnuMpamUw— Bryan MacDonald (@27khv) January 26, 2021
― scampish inquisition (gyac), Tuesday, 26 January 2021 19:26 (three years ago) link