Orange is the new Burke

Religious fixation is very common among those with severe mental health disorders such as Bipolar and Schizophrenia. Strong religious beliefs also make engaging with treatment more difficult as religion provides readymade solutions for explaining away delusional behaviours as normal, delusions which are validated and supported by their congregation.

id be more inclined to go with autism with significant levels of trauma, including ptsd and possibly cptsd, but who knows, strong religious beliefs can also occur with these conditions

people with significant levels of trauma simply cannot just snap out of it, while sitting in a cell, hence why we still have significantly high levels of re offense within our criminal justice system, their beliefs tend to become more hardened by their experiences within the system, so, ta-da!

yes, hes now unemployable, and probably for the remainder of his life, which is pretty much the case for most inmates, and you, the taxpayer, gets to pay for all of their needs, and for the remainder of your life, so, yippee!

If he got triple digits of votes it would be an overacheivement. The record low in a contested Dáil election is 8, set only two weeks ago.

It’s rubbish reported by a reporter of limited experience/intelligence/curiosity (delete as appropriate). I’m sure Martina would not have approved of a gap year!

Cregan has previously castigated his judicial colleagues for letting him out when the school has been closed. I find it difficult to believe that he would change now.

Also any other person might get a colleague to help them or a union rep but Burke didn't do any of that. He got his family to protest and temper tantrum all around the place. All displaying a huge level of hate against transgenderism.

I understand the concept of a person, or a group of persons [in this case the group of persons identifying as the Burke family] having the right to mark out the boundaries of their own personal civil and religious attitudes in the civil society of which they are part but I decline, as a member of the same civil society, to accept the concept that that sense of entitlement is a fitment which every other person must comply with when it's a concept based solely around the religious ethos of that single person or group, in this case the Burkes.

I have absolutely no problem with the Burkes setting their own personal boundaries in our society and its laws but decline to allow them set the boundaries for all others in our society in the way they are set on determining due to their religious creed. The Burkes, if they want to be an equal part of Irish society, will have to accept that they are bound by the same laws in order to be part of that society.