Cillian Murphy has not been home to Ireland since last July according to an interview I heard with him last week. But Rock the Vote have him signed up to help get the vote out. I love the wording in the rehash of the press release – to be launched Next April – ah yes [...]
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A few weeks ago I’m sure that some of the Irish sports journalists who were sent to Jamaica to cover the ICC World Cup were happy enough to be packing their sun block and t-shirts for a brief holiday and sending home a few quirky reports on our team of part timers and amateurs. Well [...]
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On Saturday in Dublin, Christine Quinn, the Speaker of New York City Council, (and out lesbian) marched in Dublin’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade with her father and her partner. On Saturday in New York, the group Irish Queers protested for the 16th year of the exclusion of Irish lesbians and gay men from the St. [...]
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One of the coalition parties in Poland plans legislation to sack gay teachers and ban groups entering schools engaging in the discussion of homosexuality (that’d be the gay groups being banned of course). The League of Polish Families (yes it is the name of a political party) plans the IV Polish Republic based on morality, [...]
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As I have alluded to on and off on the blog recently my life has undergone a huge amount of changes in the past year. Apart from the new body and mindset, and new home and job and new woman in my life, I’m thinking about embarking on a new journey in terms of the [...]
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What you staring at, dyke?! ‘The campaigns teaser posters “What are you staring at, faggot!?” and “What are you staring at, dyke!?” are used as a symbolic summary of all the wide-spread forms of homophobia in Poland today – regular hate-speech from the leading politicians, growing intolerance and exclusion by the other groups of society, [...]
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There are parts of this saga worthy of Tuppenceworth‘s Paper Round and other parts which I have been thinking about a lot over the past few days without the ‘assistance’ of yesterdays less than stunning piece of investigative journalism in the Sunday Tribune. The 14 year old boy in north Dublin who went looking for [...]
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There are Assembly elections up above this week and I have to say I’m struck by the lack of commentary in the South and on ‘southern’ blogs about the elections. I will be reading Slugger a bit more closely this week and try to catch the news bulletins and election coverage on BBC Northern Ireland [...]
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Maman Poulet and her rooster are sitting at home after a hectic evening. (Eddie Rockets never tasted so good!) Apologies to all those I did not meet or in fact was rude to as I helped out with registration and tickets etc. I live blogged the results from the back of the room on Elana‘s [...]
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