“You have to remember”, said the sage, “that these fuckers are all completely mad”.
Progressives will have to win the argument – which is something they are not doing, at present.
Fun thought experiment: Imagine for a second what would happen if a columnist with the Times of London declared that Ireland was a country “awash with ignorance and squalor”, and, as Fergus Finlay goes on to say, “riven with racism, and led by irresponsible charlatans”. How would we react, if that was written about Ireland? […]
Revised rules about handling allegations of wrongdoing against clergy and others in the employment of the Catholic Church were published by the Vatican in June (New Book VI of the Code of Canon Law, 01.06.2021) and were generally received as a positive step towards holding offenders to more stringent account under a wide number of […]
The Venerable Fergus Finlay has thrown his ponderous intellect into the war against the Irish Deplorables. His response to the protest against the lockdown on Saturday was to suggest that a census be conducted to discover how many of the thousands who attended, and not just “the violent ones”, were in receipt of the PUP […]
According to Fergus Finlay, writing in The Irish Examiner, many ‘attention seeking’ journalists are getting the ‘woke’ phenomenon all wrong. Basically it’s a great force for awareness raising and we should not be unduly disturbed by the odd bit of ‘silliness’ when some of the overly woke push political correctness too far. For someone who […]
The left, far and near, are still vexed over last Saturday’s protest outside Leinster House. ‘Anti Fascist Action’s’ Facebook page is like what you might find when a soccer hooligan firm loses face after fleeing ignominiously from some “tasty geezers.” They refer to someone at the rally as wearing the “cheapest wig in the shop,” and […]
It used to be called being ‘sent to Coventry’. It meant social ostracization, being ignored and snubbed in company – a well established form of passive aggression which has taken multiple forms in today’s world. We know it as no-platforming, blocking, muting, unfriending or cancelling. Some forms are more exclusionary than others of course. If […]