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Ye gods, I've seen more comedy in a orphanage mass shooting news coverage.

That last statement is a load of nonsense to be fair. You couldn't possibly have enough information to make that assumption. Nobody could.

I find Irish comedy very one dimensional/one paced compared to the Brits.

I think we have a good sense of humour without being funny ourselves, generally. It doesn't translate at all to other cultures.

I'm fed up with all these TD's (we're seeing them today) who get indignant about catholic church abuse.

Fact is they are in a position to fix things and yet you never see them proposing legislation to fix thing i.e religious tax, asset seizure, tax on religious property.

Norma Foley for example coming out today and suggesting the religious orders should do the right thing and pay compensation or Mick Barry suggesting all relgious orders should be removed from schools.They could actually do something to make sure this hapens and they've done nothing despite being in the Dáil for donkeys years.

They are in a position to do something but they'd rather grandstand than doing anything constructive, it's pathetic.

A lot of people wouldn't reward/recognise them for it and it could well cost them their job.

It should be a, long overdue, watershed moment (amongst others) to remove the religious element from our education system.

I agree with that.

Fact is the reason the church had so much power and abused it is because people allowed them to have that power.They weren't armed so they weren't difficult to stand up to if people wanted (there are examples of people standing up to the church and them being fairly powerless to do anything).

People love blaming the church and the church only because they don't want to face up to the fact that their parents grandparents and great-grandparents were in a lot of ways every bit as cruel as the church were.

I accept that the church played a role in brainwashing people but even taking that into consideration there was some outright cruelty that people put up with in their own lives just because the church said it was a good thing that clearly was inhumane.All the women that were sent into mother and baby homes could easily have been helped out by their own parents/the father of the child but they just let it happen,that's a form of cruelty that is indefensible in my opinion and perpetuated by the families of those women not caring enough (for whatever reason) , its inhumane to allow your daughter to be treated like that yet it happened constantly.

A grand-aunt of mine was forced to give up her baby by my great grandmother when my great grandmother could easily have allowed her to keep it and if she wanted to avoid gossip just pretend it was her own child, but she forced her to give up the baby.

My dad was ciotóg. B. 1927, they use to try and beat his left handedness out of him with 'the strap' or they would tie his left arm behind his back to encourage him to use his right . . no . . of course it didn't work.

God love the poor little souls who may have suffered with dyslexia back then, what they must've suffered at the hands of those narrow-minded, violent lunatics.

Ah, shur everyone was happy back then. They didn't know any better.

as a fan I believe the on field stuff is most important, 😉

Community and culture don’t win matches or trophies…

People who hit you with a random spiel in Irish and then act surprised you have no idea what they are saying are complete arseholes. Imagine living such an insignificant shlt life that you have to find some meaning through your ability to speak Irish.

I don't think there is any biological reason for having preferred limbs. It's mere habit. I know a lot of folks who changed to writing with their right hand after picking up the habit of writing with their left initially. It has to be fixed early mind. People writing with their left hand look like gimps because we write left to right on a page.

Do you think they come out of the womb and are predetermined to writing with one hand or another?

And the winner of the silliest post of 2024 is..

Ever associate a place with a certain event/activity ?

Whenever i hear Gibraltar i always associate it with the IRA shootings

Twickenham with Rugby

Kilkenny with Hurling

Isle Of Mann with motorbike racing

Ally Pally with Darts

New Zealand with Rugby

Etc