Blasphemous Meeting In Dublin (Monday 25th)

Galvasean

A friend of mine is one of the speakers. Hope to see some of you guys come along.

PUBLIC MEETING, 8-10 PM THIS MONDAY, MAY 25

IN WYNN’S HOTEL, ABBEY STREET, DUBLIN

BLASPHEMY IS A VICTIMLESS CRIME

Please attend this important meeting, and bring along any friends who also
oppose the new blasphemy law. Find out the details of the law and how to
help stop it. We also want to hear your opinions as we continue our
campaign.

Speakers will include:

• Michael Nugent, chair of Atheist Ireland and co-author of I Keano
• Ian O’Doherty, columnist with Independent newspapers
• Dick Spicer, chair of the Humanist Association of Ireland
• Robbie Bonham, comedian and cartoonist
• Local politicians will be invited.

For further information see the campaign website at blasphemy.ie

Coriolanus

Thanks for the heads up.

Don't know if I can make it, but I've been hounding canvassers about it. The lack of awareness amongst the "footsoldiers" on the issue is depressing.

GirlInterrupted

I'm desperately trying to escape a commitment to make this meeting, and I've convinced a few others to go too.

Everyone who can go, should go.

Galvasean

I'm looking forward to meeting Ian O' Doherty. His spot in the Indo always entertains me.
Also, Robbie Bonham is one of the funniest comics about so i'm sure between these two the meeting wont be a drab affair.

The Mad Hatter

Gah, had I found out sooner, I'd have gone.

GirlInterrupted

Galvasean wrote: »

I'm looking forward to meeting Ian O' Doherty. His spot in the Indo always entertains me.
Also, Robbie Bonham is one of the funniest comics about so i'm sure between these two the meeting wont be a drab affair.

Robbie Bonham is funny, but I'm embarrassed to admit I've not heard of Ian O'Doherty.:o

Galvasean

GirlInterrupted wrote: »

Robbie Bonham is funny, but I'm embarrassed to admit I've not heard of Ian O'Doherty.:o

He's the author of 'iSpy' a section in the Independant newspaper. Its kind of like cynical yet fun editorial on curent events and internet oddities from the perspective of a sarcastic atheist.
The anti Kevin Myers so to speak.

Galvasean

O' Doherty was pimping this in ISpy today.

*pimps some more*

Dades

Galvasean wrote: »

*pimps some more*

Won't be there... mad busy in wurk.

Coriolanus

Swapped my days off so I could go tonight and not be knackered tomorrow

Ian ODoherty is a (edit: not nice man... in my opinion. << ). Can't staaannnd him. Interested to see what all have to say though.

Not the best plugged or advertised of events though. All the Socialism Ireland events in Wynns tend to have posters festooned everywhere etc.
Someone needs to get a hold of some pr, start getting stuff like this plugged on rte, newstalk, 4 etc, since they all tend to do roundups of "stuff" going on in the city. I was flicking between the three all day and didn't hear a mention (though that may have something to do with it. << ))

Galvasean

I only heard about it (sorry about the late posting guys!) because I'm friends with Robbie Bonham on Facebook and I saw one of his blog entries. Quite lucky actually because I rarely use Facebook.

Seventeen British men arrested for wearing nuns' habits and accused of offensive behaviour been freed by a court on the Greek island of Crete.

The prosecutors dropped the charges against them after no one showed up to testify that they had been upset by the tourists' conduct.

It would be great if everyone who attended dressed up blasphemously.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8067280.stm

Coriolanus

Just walked out. It was a good meeting I reckon, even if I found myself with some of what IOD said. :pac:
Certainly, it's the first time in a long time that I've felt compelled to get involved in something on more than a superficial level and thanks to the meeting I now have some avenues to chase down.

Edit: The meeting was finished, I didn't walk out in the bad way. :P

Dades

Nevore wrote: »

Not the best plugged or advertised of events though. All the Socialism Ireland events in Wynns tend to have posters festooned everywhere etc.
Someone needs to get a hold of some pr, start getting stuff like this plugged on rte, newstalk, 4 etc...

They were talking about it on Newstalk this evening... only heard a snippit though.

Mickeroo

Dades wrote: »

They were talking about it on Newstalk this evening... only heard a snippit though.

Don't suppose you know if you can listen to that online anywhere or anything??

Wish i could have gone to the meeting,ruddy exams.

Galvasean

Mickeroo wrote: »

Don't suppose you know if you can listen to that online anywhere or anything??

Wish i could have gone to the meeting,ruddy exams.

The whole thing was recorded. Id imagine youtube clips are inboud

Doctor DooM

Galvasean wrote: »

The whole thing was recorded. Id imagine youtube clips are inboud

Great. The whole German thing stopped me from attending but I wanted to go.

Coriolanus

SDooM wrote: »

Great. The whole German thing stopped me from attending but I wanted to go.

Ze Germans stopped you going?

Galvasean

Nevore wrote: »

Ze Germans stopped you going?

But wait, I taught Hitler was an atheist?!!!? :pac:

Coriolanus

Galvasean wrote: »

But wait, I taught Hitler was an atheist?!!!? :pac:

Hitler, speaking at the Reichstag 1936 wrote:

I believe today that I am acting in the sense of the Almighty Creator. By warding off the Jews I am fighting for the Lord's work.

Newp.

Galvasean

I was joking

Coriolanus

Galvasean wrote: »

I was joking

My apologies. My interweb humour detection matrix is offline.

irishgandalf

twas a good meeting

Coriolanus

Ran across a pretty in-depth blog post of the meeting, touches on just about everything that was discussed that I can see.

http://chartophylax.kaybensoft.com/?p=1931

Oh, and a link to the Church of Dermot facebook group is a must.

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=80256204716

and the rather disturbing merchandise...

http://www.cafepress.co.uk/Dermotology

Burgo

Nevore wrote: »

Ran across a pretty in-depth blog post of the meeting, touches on just about everything that was discussed that I can see.

http://chartophylax.kaybensoft.com/?p=1931

Oh, and a link to the Church of Dermot facebook group is a must.

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=80256204716

and the rather disturbing merchandise...

http://www.cafepress.co.uk/Dermotology

Cheers for the links. If the thong is made in the US i dread to think where the boxers come from.

lostexpectation

heres the video of the meeting
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubM3vhtP2RI&feature=channel