The bishops hurled up their cassocks today to sit on the fence – meanwhile the ‘catholic groups’ are distributing rubbish in churches, the streets and at religious meetings on Lisbon. I was ‘lucky’ enough to pick up a copy today. Entitled ‘9 reasons why a conscientious Catholic citizen should reject the Treaty of Lisbon‘, it [...]
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Brid Murphy (or Lynn) depending where you read it, settled her case yesterday against ACC bank. If she is very lucky (and hey the dice are rolling her way so far!) she’ll end up with €450,000 if another bank don’t get there first. Even the judge yesterday seemed to step up to the gaming pit [...]
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Uopdate – Brid Lynn has settled her case with ACC. I am awaiting news from the High Court on the damages. Image via WikipediaDid you hear the one about the wife of the former solicitor (yeah that one) who claims that she didn’t know that her husband was getting lots of loans for their properties [...]
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Oh I’m one of the special ones to get spammed. I got an email today targeted at bloggers from ammado about themselves and World Refugee Day and the UNCHR and taking a picture of me or someone else with my hands over me head in a pose to protect refugees and posting it on their [...]
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Tonight Enda Kenny called on the Catholic Church to clarify it’s position on the Lisbon Treaty. This follows months of material being published in ALIVE! which is distributed in churches around the country and the appearance of posters and leaflets in church properties in recent weeks. The Fine Gael leader was speaking following reports that [...]
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Mark Tighe covered the Dermot Ahern speech in yesterday’s Sunday Times and followed up with queries to people involved in lesbian and gay activism and media and something from the Ministers Office. I’m sure the phrase ‘prominent campaigner for Civil Partnerships’ had a few people choking over their bacon croissants However the Ministers Spokesman said [...]
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Oops a sport’s post! I am a bit of a sports addict – as in the armchair variety. Later this year I hope to combine my interest in disability and society and sport in writing some posts on the Paralympics as I know some of the paralympians and know how little coverage they get, and [...]
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We therefore conclude that in view of the substance and significance of the fundamental constitutional right to form a family relationship, the California Constitution properly must be interpreted to guarantee this basic civil right to all Californians, whether gay or heterosexual, and to same-sex couples as well as to opposite-sex couples. ‘Activist judges’ (all bar [...]
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When one is organising a campaign there’s polite lateness and then there’s Rock the Vote downright tardiness. Yup less than a month to Lisbon Treaty D-Day and John tell’s us that Rock the Vote are relaunching for the referendum. And yes Cian was right, there was some rejoicing tonight, Lisbon was looking a little barren [...]
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Image via Wikipedia Last week’s reshuffle has no doubt caused a headache for those campaigning on the matter of recognising same sex relationships. From initial research and remembering the announcement of a new Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform may well have given lesbians and gay men and their organisations a significant migraine. I [...]
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