“There I was, enjoying a light repast at the Applebuddies club, engaging in a fine and stimulating discussion of Amanda McKittrick Ros’s brilliant use of simile and metaphor, when suddenly what should assault my ears but some jenny foreigner defiling the rarefied air of our great nation with her native tongue! Well I…

They're against the church and Catholicism influencing government. Which is what it has always done in Ireland. The catholic theocracy in Ireland is the ghost they are trying to get rid of. The church is free to exist where it belongs - in the private lives of its believers. It has no right to exert any influence or…

Saying you don’t want constitutional laws based on Catholic doctrine and belief isn’t anti-Catholic. This is an ad that claims Catholic influence on law is an outdated practice. Which it very much is. If the Church wants to insist on maintaining that influence, then frankly they deserve to be attacked. But I don’t…

begs people to treat others as they would wish to be treated

It is a sad culture that attempts to demonize an institution that preaches love at every turn and begs people to treat others as they would wish to be treated.