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On the day Starmer and Macron announce their 'migrant deal', Nigel Farage is in the Channel to witness the French handing 78 migrants over to the British ? though not before asking for their life jackets back.
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The Shewing-up of Dermot Ahern

category national | rights, freedoms and repression | other press author Tuesday May 05, 2009 02:45author by frequentblasphemer Report this post to the editors

Dermot Ahern's tribute to Bernard Shaw, WB Yeats and Augusta Gregory?

In the Irish Times Fintan O'Toole points out that 2009 is the centenary of the occasion when a play by Bernard Shaw, "The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet", was used to show up the absurdity of having blasphemy laws.

"A little more awareness of the historical context might have prompted a simple question: what year is this? 2009. And what happened a hundred years ago in 1909? Three Irish people made a deliberate feck of the blasphemy laws, exposed the idiocy of trying to enforce them and delivered a fatal blow to the intellectual assumptions on which they are based."

"We should have realised that a man as cultured as Dermot Ahern would come up with a novel and provocative way to commemorate this glorious centenary."

'Absurdity of blasphemy law revived by Ahern'
Full article at link

Related Link: http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2009/0505/1224245943373.html
author by GBH Fan.publication date Tue May 05, 2009 13:07author address author phone Report this post to the editors

There is a old saying: "When you are in trouble at home start a war abroad."

This diverts the attention from the home troubles..

It has been used time and time again.

Example:
http://news.hosuronline.com/NewsD.asp?DAT_ID=575

The government suddenly starts to discuss blasphemy laws in the midst of an economic meltdown.

I have never seen a more obvious "diversionary tactic"..or a sillier one.

author by grrpublication date Tue May 05, 2009 09:23author address author phone Report this post to the editors


One glance at their term in office is enough to show that they have fully adopted
the idea of 'State' as a Fianna Fáil programme for Government-

Ask Dan Boyle, he negotiated the programme; and one by one every single principle
of the Greens has collapsed in the face of a split between the Grassroot and the
Parliamentary party.

Q :Thus, I ask at what price the Green's Loyalty to FF?

A: (swapping a bit of policy implementation for a Blasphemy law)

author by PBpublication date Tue May 05, 2009 03:13author address author phone Report this post to the editors

"He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career."
- George Bernard Shaw

GBS could almost have been referring to Dermot Ahern.

 
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