One day he’s welcoming the provision of playground facilities in Kilrush, the other he’s enquiring (reg. required) about the date of an early release of a sex offender. Pat Breen is having a bad week. Today on RTE he defends (realplayer required) himself saying he’s a ‘family man’ and it was a point of information he […]
Entries from October 2006
Blogging from Palestine
October 20th, 2006 · Comments Off on Blogging from Palestine · Blogging
The Hag of Beara has moved herself from West Cork to the West Bank and is blogging about it. Along with MacDara in the Lebanon it’s another way of keeping up with the middle east.
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Defining Sexuality
October 19th, 2006 · 2 Comments · Lesbian, LGBT, Queer
Sarah posts that the finding that most surprised her in the ESRI/RCSI research on sexuality was the sexual behaviour of gay men. Here I found a fact which totally stunned me: 70% of gay men reported never having anal sex and 27% of gay men reported never having oral sex. What are they doing? Not […]
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Patience of a Patient
October 17th, 2006 · 3 Comments · Disability, Personal
Dear Health Professional I had the displeasure of being treated by this morning, It was our first meeting today, we’ll be seeing each other every week or so for the next 6-8 weeks. Your first words to me were to lecture me on being 10 minutes late. You didn’t ask how I was or realise […]
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Gay partner receives social welfare allowance…grudgingly
October 12th, 2006 · 2 Comments · Irish Politics, KAL Case, LGBT, Queer, Same Sex Partnerships
Can someone please explain to the government the concept of ‘joined up’ thinking? On Tuesday the Department of Justice says it will be opting out of Brussels II/Rome II, yesterday the Governments Lawyers were saying that gay couples could not get married as marriage is special protection for opposite sex couples (subs. req.), that’s after […]
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