Lolek Ltd, Trading as 'The Iona Institute'

Timberrrrrrrr wrote: »

Don't you know you can pray the gay away? #ionaknowsbest

I have often prayed that the gay irritating me in the gay bar goes away but they never ever do.

recedite wrote: »

I believe in the place of religion all right, and keeping it firmly within there

TheChizler wrote: »

Funny how Ray D'Arcy not liking him is given as a reason to donate.

I hope he claims a fee. :pac:

their company returns are available, the daily mail had an article on how much they spent but i forgot to save it

If you post it, you. If you drop it into their letterbox when you're passing, them

robindch wrote: »

Two fun articles here:

1. Breda O'Brien, closely linked with Lolek Limited, uses the Irish Times to document her significant worry that foreign funding from named individuals might "buy undemocratic influence":

http://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/breda-o-brien-foreign-funding-buys-undemocratic-influence-1.3056989

2. Lolek Limited files its accounts with Companies Office which indicate that it has cash reserves of over EUR300k and received donations totalling EUR273,000 last year. The source of these donations is not specified either in the filing or in any other public place.

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/religion-and-beliefs/iona-institute-company-got-275-000-in-donations-last-year-1.3058193

Ok. I'll put my hand up. I made several €0.01 donations last year. Not sure about the rest of it though...

MrP

Fred Swanson wrote: »

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"Director" has a well-established legal meaning. "Patron" does not.

At a wild guess, the "patrons" listed on Iona's website are all people who support Iona, either financially (e.g. Jimmy Sheehan) or by writing or speaking on behalf of Iona (Breda O'Brien) or by networking with other church groups (Ken Clarke) or by doing more than one of these things (Vincent Twomey). Odds are they are not paid for what they do, which is why they get called "patrons".

David Quinn is described as "Director" of the Institute on the website, but from the Irish Times isn't listed as a company director of Lolek. My guess is that he's a director in the sense of general manager, that he's employed (and paid) for that purpose, that his appointment was made by the real directors and that he reports to them.

Hotblack Desiato wrote: »

Any chance of some transparency about where all of this money is coming from??

bout the same odds as me being "Born Again" :pac:

NUI graduates have excelled themselves again :rolleyes:

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/seanad-elections-michael-mcdowell-re-elected-after-r%C3%B3n%C3%A1n-mullen-tops-nui-poll-1.4217616

Mr Mullen, a long-time anti-abortion campaigner, is the first NUI Senator in recent memory to win a seat on the first count.

Hotblack Desiato wrote: »

NUI graduates have excelled themselves again :rolleyes:

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/seanad-elections-michael-mcdowell-re-elected-after-r%C3%B3n%C3%A1n-mullen-tops-nui-poll-1.4217616

It is at times like this that i am especially grateful I chose Trinity.

I can vote for both the NUI and Trinity panels. At least according to the literature and ballots I was getting through the door. I only voted against the Mullins. I presume I ‘should’ only vote for one, but the question has only occurred to me now. Would it have been legal to vote in both? Morally, I’d be a bit iffy, but legally? Have I two votes?

robindch wrote: »

The remit of democracy might well be diversified by electing the pompous, the fatuous and the intolerant but I'm not sure it's improved by doing so.

Suppose you could be right, I often find the people who profess to be the most tolerant are anything but.

alan partridge aha wrote: »

Suppose you could be right, I often find the people who profess to be the most tolerant are anything but.

perhaps you should familiarise yourself with this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

Hotblack Desiato wrote: »

The point isn't that this goon got elected. It's that he topped the poll while being in all probability highly unrepresentative of the views of NUI graduates as a whole. So the majority don't bother their hole voting, leaving the field open for the ex-Maynooth priests to swing the vote... There was a campaign to get NUI graduates to register and vote, it didn't work. Fúck 'em. Trinity have always elected high quality candidates, the NUI panel has always had its share of toothless FF types...

I never got my ballot paper. :mad:
Shed load of vote for me bumf arrived so I am definitely on the register.

Of course it's been pointed out that the RCC is a firm believer in gender quotas... wouldn't be like not-so-super-Quinn to be an aul' hypocrite, now, would it?

robindch wrote: »

In reports which should surprise nobody, it seems that cash from hardline conservative international billionaires has been funnelled, via Russian and Azerbaijan, to a range of hardline "catholic" and/or anti-lgbt/trans campaigning organizations, including the "Iona Institute".

The twitter link contains links to a number of reports, including 'Chivalry Summer Camps' in Ireland (which I don't recall appearing here before) and which are advertized as being for 'boys between 12 and 18'.

https://twitter.com/soundmigration/status/1409564791019028485
https://www.epfweb.org/sites/default/files/2021-01/EPF%20TFP_EN_Oct30_0.pdf



https://www.isfcc.org/summer-camps

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBDIuJa5LcI

Can you imagine the disappointment that would be going to a chivalry camp and not getting to go jousting.

Weren't they questionable about their funding during referendums as well?

Peregrinus wrote: »

I feel that as long as they're spending the money on "chivalry summer camps", our liberties are probably fairly safe.

they spent their money campaigning against every referendum in recent memory, spreading any number of lies in the process. I'm not sure I share your blasé attitude towards them.