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Lolek Ltd, Trading as 'The Iona Institute'

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    #962
    FouxDaFaFa
    Registered Users Posts: 6,850 ✭✭✭FouxDaFaFa


    Days later I realise that Lolek sounds like LulzSec and that's why I feel like I've heard it before.

    That was driving me mad.


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    #963
    Peregrinus
    Registered Users Posts: 26,246 ✭✭✭✭Peregrinus


    Cabaal wrote: »
    So if lolek Ltd is their registered name, what's stopping somebody registering Iona Institute as a limited company name? :)
    "Iona Institute" is registered as a business name. Details of the registration are not available for free from cro.ie, so I can't be sure that it is registered to Lolek Ltd, but I can see that it is registered to a business carried on at 23 Merrion Square. Draw your own conclusions.

    You possibly could register a company called "Iona Institute Ltd", but this wouldn't entitle you to stop anyone else carrying on business under the name "Iona Institute". Nor, if you commenced carrying on business under that name, would it protect you from legal action from some hypothetical body that might already be carrying on business under the name.


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    #964
    Peregrinus
    Registered Users Posts: 26,246 ✭✭✭✭Peregrinus


    spurious wrote: »
    Does anyone know how many members make up the II - would it be in double figures?
    I don't think it's a membership-based organisation. The website solicits donations and invites you to subscribe to their newsletter, but it doesn't invite you to become a member, or even suggest that this is possible.

    Lolek Ltd is registered as a private company and, by law, has a maximum of 99 members. In reality it probably has many fewer than that.


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    #965
    shruikan2553
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,113 ✭✭✭shruikan2553


    As far as I know its just a handful of (surprisingly) educated people who go around concered for "familes", theres no signing up for it or anything like that.


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    #966
    spurious
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,160 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    'Lolek' sounds familiar to those of us of a certain age, as it's part of the title of a Polish cartoon RTE used to use as filler. 'Bolek and Lolek' a cartoon about two little boys.

    Ah yes.

    To think they could have been known as Bolek(s) Ltd. So near and yet so far.


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    #967
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users Posts: 34,371 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    A bit about Bolek and Lolek here. http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=77180821&postcount=24

    Fingal County Council are certainly not competent to be making decisions about the most important piece of infrastructure on the island. They need to stick to badly designed cycle lanes and deciding on whether Mrs Murphy can have her kitchen extension.



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    #968
    Cabaal
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 28,470 Mod ✭✭✭✭Cabaal


    Its just so hard being part of a majority religion being persecuted everyday! Poor Breda

    http://www.broadsheet.ie/2015/02/26/iona-my-version/
    “I believe there is an upper room feeling about the church in many parts of the world today. People cowering behind closed doors, afraid to express opinions, in case it will bring the wrath of the oppressors down on them, but if you focus on witnessing, you have a certain calm about outcomes. Most of the time.

    “When I found myself, earlier this year, accused with other people of being a homophobe, for weeks on end, everywhere from our national parliament to our State broadcaster and it continued to the extent that my 15-year-old daughter turned to me and said, ‘Mammy are you safe? Is it safe for you to go out?’ – I had to hold on very tightly to witnessing, not winning.

    And in a major irony, the article which sparked off the whole incident was about gay men in the priesthood. And I asked a rhetorical question which was that if every single priest were gay, if they were faithful to their vocation, and actively seeking to do the will of god, what would it matter?

    It was a rhetorical question. And this article was what caused a very well-known drag queen to accuse me of homophobia.”

    Iona Institute’s Irish Times columnist Breda O’Brien speaking at a Catholic conference in Madrid, Spain in September, 2014.

    Rep writes:

    “…31 mins. and 42 seconds in, Breda begins to talk about the Pantigate Affair…A very dishonest account of the whole affair….”

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sBThgCUJ-0


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    #969
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    The usual sickening whines.

    I would have more associated the term "witnessing" with evangelical Protestantism.


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    #970
    shruikan2553
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,113 ✭✭✭shruikan2553


    A group which exists to pretty much persecute everyone who doesnt live by their randomly made up rules are persecuted.

    Have they thought of maybe not trying to persecute others?

    This one time I was told I cant throw all the black people out, I felt so persecuted.


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    #971
    Cabaal
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 28,470 Mod ✭✭✭✭Cabaal


    shruikan2553 wrote: »
    A group which exists to pretty much persecute everyone who doesnt live by their randomly made up rules are persecuted.

    Have they thought of maybe not trying to persecute others?

    This one time I was told I cant throw all the black people out, I felt so persecuted.

    Its very easy to feel persecuted when you have a say in 92% of our schools I guess


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    #972
    shruikan2553
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,113 ✭✭✭shruikan2553


    Cabaal wrote: »
    Its very easy to feel persecuted when you have a say in 92% of our schools I guess

    Cant expect them to be treated like everyone else can we.


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    #973
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    shruikan2553 wrote: »
    A group which exists to pretty much persecute everyone who doesnt live by their randomly made up rules are persecuted.

    Have they thought of maybe not trying to persecute others?

    This one time I was told I cant throw all the black people out, I felt so persecuted.

    Rights for Whites!!!!!!


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    #974
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    David Quinn, showing the charming side of his character....
    http://www.broadsheet.ie/2015/03/03/whos-the-father/


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    #975
    TheChizler
    Registered Users Posts: 9,442 ✭✭✭TheChizler


    Nodin wrote: »
    David Quinn, showing the charming side of his character....
    http://www.broadsheet.ie/2015/03/03/whos-the-father/
    Quinnstain... I like it.


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    #976
    shruikan2553
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,113 ✭✭✭shruikan2553


    Quinn is really throwing stones in that nice glass house of his.


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    #977
    marienbad
    Registered Users Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭marienbad


    Nodin wrote: »
    David Quinn, showing the charming side of his character....
    http://www.broadsheet.ie/2015/03/03/whos-the-father/

    Class guy allright , keep it up David and you Breda will sink your campaign all on your own .


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    #978
    robindch
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,403 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    Nodin wrote: »
    David Quinn, showing the charming side of his character [...]
    With a crass comment like that, I can't help but wonder -- again -- whether somebody is going to return the compliment and query his family circumstances.


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    #979
    marienbad
    Registered Users Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭marienbad


    robindch wrote: »
    With a crass comment like that, I can't help but wonder -- again -- whether somebody is going to return the compliment and query his family circumstances.


    Its as if he was trying to provoke just that .


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    #980
    Penn
    Registered Users Posts: 33,389 ✭✭✭✭Penn


    Yeah, to be honest I really hope no-one takes the bait, whether that's what he intended or not.


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    #981
    marienbad
    Registered Users Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭marienbad


    Brutalitops wrote: »
    Yeah, to be honest I really hope no-one takes the bait, whether that's what he intended or not.

    absolutely agree , stay away from it . I thought he was trying to do the same in the discussion with Colm O'Gorman .


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    #982
    PopePalpatine
    Registered Users Posts: 11,866 ✭✭✭✭PopePalpatine


    I wouldn't be surprised that if the guy who posted that "Quinnstain" comment wasn't anonymous, they'd find a solicitor's letter in their letterbox tomorrow morning.


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    #983
    The Black Oil
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 18,344 CMod ✭✭✭✭The Black Oil


    There was a bit of a hit job on them in the Mail over the weekend, due to the ease of access they have to the airwaves. Screenshots of the piece were Twitter. Probably not the best approach, tbh. Expect the marriage referendum debate to get uglier.

    Moderator: Television, Psychology and Dublin County North.

    CMod: Entertainment



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    #984
    Delirium
    Moderators Posts: 51,738 ✭✭✭✭Delirium


    https://twitter.com/Humanisticus/status/572781001417609216

    If you can read this, you're too close!



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    #985
    oceanclub
    Registered Users Posts: 3,411 ✭✭✭oceanclub


    Lots of damage control on Twitter tonight by Quinn and his various associates. Claims he didn't know it was about Dil - even though screencaps show her name was in the thread.

    P.


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    #986
    shruikan2553
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,113 ✭✭✭shruikan2553


    oceanclub wrote: »
    Lots of damage control on Twitter tonight by Quinn and his various associates. Claims he didn't know it was about Dil - even though screencaps show her name was in the thread.

    P.

    Not knowing much doesnt usually stop him. Otherwise he would be silent.


    He knows everything

    USER IS NOT BEING SUED MOVE ALONG


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    #987
    Pherekydes
    Registered Users Posts: 16,132 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    oceanclub wrote: »
    Lots of damage control on Twitter tonight by Quinn and his various associates. Claims he didn't know it was about Dil...

    That's irrelevant. His question would be applicable to any lesbian SSM campaigning couple expecting a baby.


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    #988
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    oceanclub wrote: »
    Lots of damage control on Twitter tonight by Quinn and his various associates. Claims he didn't know it was about Dil - even though screencaps show her name was in the thread.

    P.

    Not a fib if you make it for Jesus, presumably.


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    #989
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    Pherekydes wrote: »
    That's irrelevant. His question would be applicable to any lesbian SSM campaigning couple expecting a baby.

    You mean inappropriate to any SSM couple....?


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    #990
    spurious
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,160 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    I love how the Loleks seem to take PR lessons from Pee Flynn.


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    #991
    Pherekydes
    Registered Users Posts: 16,132 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    Nodin wrote: »
    You mean inappropriate to any SSM couple....?

    Well yeah. I meant applicable from his POV.


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