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Strip back the myths and reveal the real St Patrick
Ulster has a Christian history that stretches back to the 5th century and the man that God raised up to bring the Christian faith to Ulster was Patrick.
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How the Catholic Church has mocked its own pastoral rules
In 1975, when two children were sworn to an oath of secrecy by senior members
of the Catholic Church about the sexual violation which they had endured
from the serial rapist priest Brendan Smyth, the Republic was essentially a
Catholic state.
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Why buying green is no excuse for acting mean
It's not easy being green, said Kermit, and what a delightful fellow he was.
Turns out those who find it easy being green also find it easy being mean.
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Abused left to deal with awful burden of silence
For decades - at least - the Catholic Church was unable to find a response to child abuse by priests that didn't make it worse.
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Brown gets right dunking over his cookie coyness
It is, I think, correct and fair to refer to Gordon Brown as a balloon, a numptie, a phoney, a nutter, a clot, a clown, a poltroon, an incompetent, a blusterer, a blowhard, a hypocrite, a mountebank, a cad, an oddball, a misfit, a bungler, botcher, blunderer, bumbler, duffer, galoot, fool, failure, nincompoop, wally, a five-star featherbrained drivelling dullard and, arguably, a jobbernowl.
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We do not need to be told the truth. We need truth to be told
Why Bloody Sunday? There have been bigger death tolls. Fifteen Catholics in McGurk’s Bar in the New Lodge in Belfast the previous month. Eighteen Paras at Warrenpoint in 1979.
Why Church must confess all for sake of my abused friend
For evil to succeed it is only necessary that good men either do nothing ? or that they get the victims of evil to sign vows of silence promising never to reveal details of the terrible abuse they suffered.
Why this little pop tart fills me full of dread for our daughters
If you go on Lady Gaga’s website you can buy a T-shirt that says ‘I’m A Free Bitch’. The T-shirt isn’t free, however. It costs £19.99. I’m not sure what a ‘free bitch’ is, but I think it might be a prostitute that you don’t have to pay for.
Lobby our MPs on 'grey issues'
Recently I was pleased to get the first instalment of my state pension. I was less pleased to receive notification that I would lose 25% of my pension through taxation.
Editor's Viewpoint: Full inquiry to restore our faith
Even those who have been following the revelations about child abuse by priests very closely must be confused by the mixed messages coming from the Catholic Church.
Why Christine really is the One
Isn't our own Christine Bleakley turning out to be a really class act? Her Sport Relief Waterski Challenge was a kind of David Walliams/Eddie Izzard moment when the Newtownards woman moved officially into the ranks of minor national treasure.
A lesson in history for Cameron: unionists always do it their way
If I refer to the imbroglio of the UUP as ‘the Hermon mess', I hope Lady Hermon will not take it amiss.
PPS must prove to public that it is fit for purpose
Whoever becomes the new Justice Minister won’t have to look far for his first task — to examine the performance of the Public Prosecution Service and determine if it is fit for purpose.
Swashbuckling Sir Reg finally delivers a shot across the bows
No matter how much positive spin is placed on the transfer of policing and justice powers to Stormont, concerns remain. Will what has not worked in the past be any better in the future?
Loud, aggressive and mean, Carol’s number’s really up
For years she has been paraded as the ultimate poster girl for attractive, smart, self-sufficient forty-something women, but last week we saw the real face of Carol Vorderman and boy, it ain’t pretty.
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Democracy doesn't seem to work when occupied by Western troops
In 2005 the Iraqis walked in their tens of thousands through the thunder of suicide bombers, and voted – the Shias on the instructions of their clerics, the Sunnis sulking in a boycott – to prove Iraq was a "democracy".
Mark Steel: My advice to Obama – throw away the kid gloves
When you watch Barack Obama make these speeches to try and introduce healthcare to America, you have to wonder whether he might improve his ratings if he lost his temper and chucked things.
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