The higher-ups in the Catholic church are meeting today about 200 metres from my office - no, they didn’t come especially because it is my office, I just work in the university that is beside the one that they own.
They are debating what to do about the bishops that protect the child rapists.  This time […]

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I have just read how Minister Barry Andrews has referred the diocese of Cloyne to the Commission of Investigation into the Archdiocese of Dublin.
This is sad, though once again not surprising.  The level of protection the catholic church is offering to sex-offenders, even now is staggering.
The HSE have just published their investigation into the handling […]

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From ValueIreland.com:
When is a 0.5% VAT increase the cause of a 4% price increase? Isn’t this the kind of problem we knew was going to happen? Greedy businesses will start using the new 0.5% VAT increase as a further excuse for screwing even more money out of the Irish consumer.
The company with the dubious honour […]

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I read this morning how Thabo Mbeki has caused the deaths of 330,000 South Africans by ignoring the scientific evidence that HIV causes AIDS and making the decision in 1999 not to provide drugs that would somewhat stymie the rise in incidence of the disease.
Rolling forward, allowing HIV/AIDS to flourish to this extent, will result […]

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So, this is my post about what way I am going to vote and why I am going to vote that way.  As I have said a number of times, I like to make decisions based on exploring real data and information and not on the basis of supersition or gut-instinct or any of that […]

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So, oil is dangerously close to the ‘psychological’ barrier of 100 dollars a barrel? I’m not sure I know what that means, but let’s just say that oil is getting pricey.
The fall out from this is that all manner of travel will get expensive and producing anything that depends on oil for energy will […]

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I was in favour of embryonic stem cell usage and indeed I saw no problem with embryonic stem cell research. If a blastocyst was about to be destroyed then I felt it was a good thing to remove the stem cells first and use them to improve the quality of life for those who […]

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