Dickie Rock has died and his funeral was stuffed with important people, all lauding his goodness,kindness, singing ability and whatever you’re having yourself. Is this kind of canonisation what should happen?
As we make our trembling way to Christmas, news that the Capuchin Centre in Dublin opened its hampers-for-the-poor one morning this week and inside 30 minutes all 3,000 hampers were gone. And yet the south of Ireland is awash with cash. Can this be allowed to continue? Marie Antoinette thought they should eat cake – until suddenly the inequality was ended in the age of the guillotine. Might it come to that in Ireland?
There is a move to end the isolation of misbehaving pupils in school. Is this sensible and humane, or people who know nothing about the classroom virtue signalling?
Finally, it’s all change in Syria. Trump says the US should just get out of Syria. Maybe he’s right…?
Bain sult as…
I’ve read Stephen Collins’s stuff for decades.
He gives a convincing impersonation of a gobshite ignoramus.
Just a typical example of his jugement:-
Cuman na nGael once issued an Election poster attacking De Valera for his Hispanic
and Sean Lemass for his French ancestry and Sean T O Ceallaigh for his Gaelic one.
Senor de Valera, Monsieur Lemass and Shanty O’Kelly.
Brainless stuff that small schoolchildren would not stoop to.
But Stephen Collins regards it as the wit of a Polymath!