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Liveline Thread (15/02/2012 to 01/05/2012)

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    #3752
    ThisRegard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,833 ✭✭✭✭ThisRegard


    Ann has an agenda here, from my local experience it couldn't be more opposite. In fact some people are put off by Educate Together because they're so ethnically mixed.


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    #3753
    bijapos
    Registered Users Posts: 3,003 ✭✭✭bijapos


    Technocentral wrote: »
    That so called 90% catholic Ireland thing is nonsense, most people write it on census out of habit, for instance church attendance in lots of working class areas is around 7%.


    I did the census last year. A lot of people had issues as there was no "non-practising RC" option. Essentially you are baptised a Catholic and this is what you are, whether you like it or not until you officially leave, which is something very few people do.

    Loads of complaints that there was no "non-practising" box to tick but thats the way it is, so by default most people here are Catholic even though they don't see the inside of a Church apart from Baptisms, funerals, weddings and confirmations.

    I grew up in a very rural area, attendance there is down by 50% since the 80's and a lot of people go as a social meeting opportunity rather than anything else.


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    #3754
    sudzs
    Registered Users Posts: 8,719 ✭✭✭sudzs


    IvyTheTerrible wrote: »
    It's good IF the child has been going to a proper play school...

    yes or if the child has one or both parents able to provide the appropeiate basic groundings which I doubt very much "catholic ethos mam" would!!


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    #3755
    europa11
    Registered Users Posts: 5,730 ✭✭✭europa11


    Nothing like the Catholic ethos to get your kid off to a good start....

    "next exercise, everyone bend over!"

    xbfdlc.jpg


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    #3756
    eviltwin
    Registered Users Posts: 17,495 ✭✭✭✭eviltwin


    Having put my son's name down on 4 ET waiting lists before he was born she is right...I cannot see how someone can come into an area and get a place in a ET school with a long waiting list. ET schools are on a first come / first served basis and that is important.


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    #3757
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users Posts: 43,028 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    ThisRegard wrote: »
    Ann has an agenda here, from my local experience it couldn't be more opposite. In fact some people are put off by Educate Together because they're so ethnically mixed.

    The only one i know is the one in Lucan opposite Foxdein and there was no way i was sending my child there


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    #3758
    ButtersSuki
    Registered Users Posts: 53,028 ✭✭✭✭ButtersSuki


    Is being middle class a crime now?

    Apart from in Joe's condescending eyes of course.


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    #3759
    syklops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,966 ✭✭✭✭syklops


    bijapos wrote: »
    I did the census last year. A lot of people had issues as there was no "non-practising RC" option. Essentially you are baptised a Catholic and this is what you are, whether you like it or not until you officially leave, which is something very few people do.

    Loads of complaints that there was no "non-practising" box to tick but thats the way it is, so by default most people here are Catholic even though they don't see the inside of a Church apart from Baptisms, funerals, weddings and confirmations.

    I grew up in a very rural area, attendance there is down by 50% since the 80's and a lot of people go as a social meeting opportunity rather than anything else.

    Which is why I put down Jedi as my religion. Im not practising, as there is no religion as such but I'll be damned if I'm counted as a catholic just because a man in a dress sprayed water at me when I was 6 months old.


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    #3760
    surferdudz
    Registered Users Posts: 1,509 ✭✭✭surferdudz


    europa11 wrote: »
    Nothing like the Catholic ethos to get your kid off to a good start....

    "next exercise, everyone bend over!"

    xbfdlc.jpg


    I take your point...but I think excercise HAS a place in the primary / secondary curriciulum...


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    #3761
    europa11
    Registered Users Posts: 5,730 ✭✭✭europa11


    "What is your subtext?"

    That's something you should ask of yourself more often rather than of others Joe.


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    #3762
    dvpower
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,183 ✭✭✭dvpower


    syklops wrote: »
    Which is why I put down Jedi as my religion. Im not practising, as there is no religion as such but I'll be damned if I'm counted as a catholic just because a man in a dress sprayed water at me when I was 6 months old.
    Could have put down 'No Religion'.


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    #3763
    ButtersSuki
    Registered Users Posts: 53,028 ✭✭✭✭ButtersSuki


    syklops wrote: »
    Which is why I put down Jedi as my religion. Im not practising, as there is no religion as such but I'll be damned if I'm counted as a catholic just because a man in a dress sprayed water at me when I was 6 months old.

    As long as it was only water!:D


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    #3764
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users Posts: 43,028 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    I would say she would be quick to throw a duster:D


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    #3765
    bijapos
    Registered Users Posts: 3,003 ✭✭✭bijapos


    syklops wrote: »
    Which is why I put down Jedi as my religion. Im not practising, as there is no religion as such but I'll be damned if I'm counted as a catholic just because a man in a dress sprayed water at me when I was 6 months old.


    Be thankful it was only water you were sprayed with! :pac:


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    #3766
    sudzs
    Registered Users Posts: 8,719 ✭✭✭sudzs


    I don't see how the teaching of any religion should be part of any educational curriculum.


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    #3767
    surferdudz
    Registered Users Posts: 1,509 ✭✭✭surferdudz


    " newcomers TO THE COUNTRY " FFS Joe...


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    #3768
    Bertiebasher
    Registered Users Posts: 265 ✭✭Bertiebasher


    where is dublin 14, Joe ?


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    #3769
    Zwillinge
    Registered Users Posts: 4,677 ✭✭✭Zwillinge


    Madeline had a sharp greeting to her Joe, shes up to something


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    #3770
    surferdudz
    Registered Users Posts: 1,509 ✭✭✭surferdudz


    gettin a bit boring....whats next?


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    #3771
    ButtersSuki
    Registered Users Posts: 53,028 ✭✭✭✭ButtersSuki


    Just looking at the tags below, what's the "Bon jovi on line 2" about? I missed that one, can someone give me a quick explanation?


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    #3772
    ThisRegard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,833 ✭✭✭✭ThisRegard


    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    The only one i know is the one in Lucan opposite Foxdein and there was no way i was sending my child there

    Why ?


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    #3773
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users Posts: 43,028 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    surferdudz wrote: »
    gettin a bit boring....whats next?

    Adoptions


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    #3774
    europa11
    Registered Users Posts: 5,730 ✭✭✭europa11


    surferdudz wrote: »
    gettin a bit boring....whats next?

    Garlicgate......next race from Cheltenham.......my money's on a little breakeen first :D (that's not a hoss!)


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    #3775
    Skid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,873 ✭✭✭Skid


    ButtersSuki wrote: »
    Just looking at the tags below, what's the "Bon jovi on line 2" about? I missed that one, can someone give me a quick explanation?

    Brush Shiels rang up demanding Joe get Jon Bon Jovi on the air to settle their long running dispute over the Band Name 'Skid Row'

    Bon Jovi has been on hold ever since.

    http://thedailyedge.thejournal.ie/brush-shiels-accuses-bon-jovi-of-stealing-skid-row-band-name-330443-Jan2012/


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    #3776
    ThisRegard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,833 ✭✭✭✭ThisRegard


    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    Adoptions

    Just in case you wanted to put a face to the telephone box woman and truck driver man, their pics are here today
    http://www.independent.ie/national-news/woman-left-in-phone-box-as-a-baby-reunited-with-driver-who-found-her-3047456.html?start=1


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    #3777
    artful_codger
    Registered Users Posts: 2,449 ✭✭✭artful_codger


    sounds like she was dragged up, not brought up.


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    #3778
    surferdudz
    Registered Users Posts: 1,509 ✭✭✭surferdudz


    " Lets educate together......"

    I am suspicious about all this sudden huge loyalty to catholic schools??


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    #3779
    Technocentral
    Registered Users Posts: 6,102 ✭✭✭Technocentral


    bijapos wrote: »
    I did the census last year. A lot of people had issues as there was no "non-practising RC" option. Essentially you are baptised a Catholic and this is what you are, whether you like it or not until you officially leave, which is something very few people do.

    Loads of complaints that there was no "non-practising" box to tick but thats the way it is, so by default most people here are Catholic even though they don't see the inside of a Church apart from Baptisms, funerals, weddings and confirmations.

    I grew up in a very rural area, attendance there is down by 50% since the 80's and a lot of people go as a social meeting opportunity rather than anything else.

    I'd have to disagree with just one thing, a priest throwing water over me and reciting some archaic spiel doesn't make me anything, would be like me reciting mumbo jumbo from Harry Potter over a baby and saying to its parents that it was now a Wizard, ie meaningless. I grew up catholic until I was 15 and realised religion was nonsense like Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy, now I call myself a humanist, I put no religion on census they should have humanist as an option.


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    #3780
    sudzs
    Registered Users Posts: 8,719 ✭✭✭sudzs


    "there's 90% of catholics in this country"

    I'm guessing she means 90% of this country is catholic. I doubt that figure.


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    #3781
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users Posts: 43,028 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    ThisRegard wrote: »
    Why ?

    I did not want her held back by kids who could barely speak english or disruptive children from the halting site 2 minutes away

    It may sound wrong but you have to try and do whats best for your kids


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