ADW does it again. Andrews Lane.
Have a nice day tomorrow and treat the city with some respect.
It’s my day off. I’ll leave it to Flann O’Brien:
And here’s a good wan. The brother met an oul fella below in Wiekla town and yer man said straight out of that there was no Saint Patrick and that the whole yarn was invented be Strongbow or somebody. The brother asked him, if that was true, how come there was no snakes in Ireland? Know what th’oul fella done? Laughed in the brother’s face. Me dear man, says he when I was a young man settin out to make me fortune, I first emigrated to Australia. There was work to be had there but it was too hard and the grub was something fierce. With the result was I continued me travels to New Zealand. Ever heard tell of New Zealand? Right. I’ll tell ya wan thing about New Zealand. There isn’t a single snake in the whole place.
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Donal
Ciarán
Sam
Come Here To Me! 
A gentleman? Patrick was a slave…
Completely Patrick! It’s a line borrowed from the great tune ‘Patrick was a gentleman’. I’ve always liked Christy’s version.
a little tough on poor ol’ Michael Flatley……. I mean, should he be categorised with all those crimials etc?
So if you’re going to single out him (and he does make me cringe) then you’ve also to mention Aslan’s Dignam, Brush Shields, Geldof and Bono and they’re Irish, play to a stereotype and make my teeth grind.
Patrick was a gentleman who was a pathological liar and brought Romes child abusers in his wake. We’d have been better off with snakes.
slick the snakes are class, the detail on the figure is unreal
The idea of a national day has proved to be a good one overall. It needs to move forward. The last Monday in March should be designated Paddys Day. The sectarian element should be eliminated completely. There is nothing national any more about a front man who created a beach head for Rome.
What kind of message would the new Paddy’s Day send and to whom?
It might signal the country was growing beyond the forelock tipping peasants who were afraid of the parish priest and the TD’s who deferred to the Bishop.
It might be a recognition of all the known and unknown victims of Industrial schools and Magdalene laundries. It could be renamed as a permanent memorial to all of them.
It might undermine the reasons for joining the Orange Order. It might change the image of the South as Rome Rule.
It might save the country millions and increase tourist revenue. A designated Monday in March would mean it would always be a long weekend.
if you care to research the origins of St Patrick’s Day on 17th March you’d see that it was first celebrated by Irish members of the British Army in Boston prior to US Independance. The largest celebration is held in NY and this is the world’s largest parade.
A parade only began in Ireland in 1931 after Bord Failte finally realised the money aspects fo the US tourists coming to Ireland. Prior to that it only became a public holiday (no drink was allowed ) in Ireland in 1903 as everything previously could only be publically celebrated if it fit the British standards.
You can suggest move it to whenever and it’ll still be celebrated on March17.
You can try and seperate it from the Church but it’s based on a pre-Reformation (therefore non-sectarian) Saint’s day of observation and the New York tradition is maintained by a Catholic fraternal organisation.
You can continue to band-wagon complain but that’s just sheepishly following the trend.
I didn’t know that retarded bigots joined the Orange Order because of the SPD Parade – not !!
A designated Monday in March thus loosing all originality and variation thus becoming an ordinary, boring, stereotype long wkend. You’d be off to Fungerola then.
Forelock tipping to priest and bishops…….. I haven’t seen that behaviour in many years, actually never. Now the Sheep follow anything on Sky, The Beeb, Oirish Mail in their ManUre shirts. Or, or, or Irish Thames, The Times (Oirish version) in their wrugby ensemble. No different from the Home Counties.
Saint Patrick’s Day originated in USA and is maintained by emigrants…….. it’s a religious holiday from back in the time when Irish people weren’t allowed practice their religion. Deal with it but you won’t change or corrupt it.
Signed
Patrick’s Offsprung
St. Patricks offsprung? So much for celibacy. “Saint” Patrick is a Catholic and claimed by Rome. It’s sectarian as long as it’s headlined by a religious figurehead of any sort.
A national holiday in Ireland should be all inclusive with no Roman or other religious connotations. It especially shouldn’t carry the name of a religious zealot who brought Rome to these shores and in his wake clerical child rapists and sexual deviants. It especially should have no reference whatsoever to a foreign organisation which sold the country to Anglo Norman barons.
For forelock tipping you only have to read the terms of the Indemnity Deal signed by the Roman loyalist Bertie and his ultra Catholic mate Woods. The victims of the Magdalene laundries remain sidelined without compensation while they die one by one. That’s a whole state apparatus forelock tipping. The sadistic nuns and brothers who filled the pages of the Ryan report with victims are still unmanned and roaming free. Every Irish taxpayer is paying for the tsunami of child rape carried out by Rome’s clerics to this very day. Forelock tipping to Rome doesn’t get much bigger of more insidious than that.
What would be celebrated on the last Monday in March would be Paddys Day not “St” Paticks day. The date is not what people celebrate or some ancient long dead religious fanatic and they don’t drink any less in Ireland on a Monday off than they do on a Thursday off.
Hypenated Americans who imagine they’re Irish by parading their loyalty to the Vatican can do whatever they wish. This is Ireland I’m talking about not Plastic Paddy land. It’s not New York where, consistent with Romes vilification of Gays, the American retarded Catholic bigots still refuse them a place in “their” parade.
http://www.gaycitynews.com/articles/2011/03/16/gay_city_news/news/doc4d8114aed13a5869325140.txt
“Saint Patrick is a Catholic and claimed by Rome. ”
as i wrote “pre-referormation” and therefore not beholden to Catholic or Protestant churches. I wrote it in English, black type on white, in normal script and you still don’t get it…. you seem to be lacking something, common sense maybe?
“It’s sectarian as long as it’s headlined by a religious figurehead of any sort.”
no. it based on religion. It’s from a religious background. It’s a Catholic day on obligation in Ireland and a public holiday but it ain’t sectarian as all faith’s and none get to have a day off work & school and get sloshed regardless of circumcision, cricket-supporting or rosary beads.
I spent from the age of 4 to 18 in Catholic schools in Dublin and saw no abuse or bad behaviour from religious personnel. I saw one gay lay teacher & one, voluntary, gay boy but that’s a whole diff story. Why didn’t the Dept of Social Svcs look after the Magdalene Laundry women? Why didn’t the Magdalene Womens families take them home? Why didn’t the Magdalenen Women take the nuns to court……….. because they fooking couldn’t. It was a third world country back then & no one cared about the Magdalene Women, they’d fallen thro the cracks of society and everyone was busy trying to build an independant nation. A recently independant nation with nothing but religion and an established education system founded and supported by the clergy. You don’t like the clergy then fine. Pay them back for all the years education they gave you. You get the rate to be charged by looking at the prices for the private schools like Kings Hosp (Blue Jackets see The Penal Laws). It should prob be 14 years by 4,000 Euro, put your money where your mouth is else u are a waffler.
Ireland is fully and completely dependant on the USA. The economy would dry up if it wasn’t for US invest usually from Irish American CEOs…. Intel, Dell, HP, Boston Scientific, BoA-Merrill etc. Get a grip on reality or get lost, Ireland is the 51st State of the USA.
Pre-reformation there were no Protestant churches so Patrick was given the designation by Rome. He’s a Roman Catholic “saint” and is celebrated for converting Ireland to Roman Christianity. Who gets a day off is irrelevant as to why they get a day off and what/who is being supposedly celebrated.
A public holiday in Ulster in celebration of King Billy (who was partially funded by Pope Innocent XI) and his victory at the Boyne wouldn’t be any different because Catholics, Hindus and Jews got the day off as well. You have to be a bit thick not to be able to see something so obvious.
Women were committed to Magdalene laundries by a Rome dominated society run be forelock tipping Catholic politicians. To jibe at the victims by saying something as ignorant as “why didn’t their families take them home” is as stupid as asking why they didn’t run up to Mountjoy prison every time a family member got locked up and release them.
They couldn’t take the nuns to court then just as they can’t now because politics is and was riddled with Pro Catholics protecting the interests of Rome. If they couldn’t get justice from a Rome dominated State in the 21st century they had no hope in the 20th. Anyone with a sliver of common sense would be able to figure that out.
The Roman Catholic Church colonised education in Ireland as they did and continue to do for the purpose of indoctrination designed to serve it’s own perpetuation. On the evidence of your posts it works.
To make a statement insinuating that because one individual attended school for a relatively short period and missed abuse therefore it must not have happened is laughable. It’s the same as insinuating the first world war must not have happened because your Grandfather was in Kerry and didn’t see any Germans or trenches. The Ryan, Murphy, Ferns and Cloyne reports are not part of a series that started with Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory so you need to go back to whoever brainwashed you into believing such nonsense.
American companies in Ireland do business here mainly because of the low corporation tax and the fact that the population is English speaking. They don’t make corporate decisions based on a yearly parade in the name of a sectarian figure unless they’re as completely mad as yourself. Neither do they make business decisions based on the actions of American Roman Catholic bigots in New York every March.