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August 2021

August 16, 2021

Evangelical Christian loses ‘vexatious’ case against a supermarket

IRELAND'S Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) has tossed out a complaint brought by an evangelical Christian...

August 05, 2021

Ireland argues religious oaths are ‘necessary for public safety’

IN a blistering letter to The Irish Times, Atheist Ireland has described as "ridiculous" the...

January 2021

January 15, 2021

Hit them where it hurts: Ireland warns of seizing RCC assets

IN THE wake of the publication of a horrifying report detailing the extent of cruelty...

January 12, 2021

Babies ‘died like flies’ in Irish Catholic-run homes for unwed mums

THE woman pictured above is amateur historian Catherine Corless, whose investigation of infant deaths at the...

December 2020

December 09, 2020

NY priest, caught watching gay porn, accused of sexual assault

A 'CELEBRITY' New York priest, who last year expressed horror that Ireland had sunk into...

July 2020

July 09, 2020

Irish chaplain’s ‘scandalous’ Pride message outrages Catholic bigots

AN Ireland-based outfit called the Lumen Fidei Institute is calling for the punishment of a...

July 09, 2020

Collection plate crisis: RCC wants UK government funding

COVID-19 has put a bloody great dent in the Catholic Church's finances in England. But...

July 01, 2020

Former Irish President attacks ‘evil’ Catholic Church

IN a podcast interview ahead of last weekend’s Pride celebrations in Ireland, Mary McAleese, above,...

May 2020

May 05, 2020

Irish school punished for unfair treatment of an atheist pupil

YELLOW Furze primary school in Co Meath has been ordered by Ireland's Workplace Relations Commission...

October 2019

October 16, 2019

Ireland ‘forced’ to have an official rep at Newman’s canonisation

IT'S emerged that Ireland had no plans to send an official representative to the Vatican...

October 14, 2019

Irish monk’s male nude paintings prove too hot for Facebook to handle

A book containing nude paintings by brother Emmaus O’Herlihy – sent to Glenstal Abbey in...

September 2019

September 26, 2019

Exorcist has a plan to draw Ireland back from ‘a tsumani of evil’

BACK in 1979, Pope John Paul II (now up there with the saints) warned that...

May 2019

May 18, 2019

The rainbow flag ‘has replaced the Christian cross in Ireland’

IN an hysterical rant against Ireland's liberation from the jackboot of Catholicism, Anthony Murphy, above, founder...

May 13, 2019

US hate preacher becomes the first person to be banned from Ireland

IRELAND has joined several other countries who have imposed exclusion orders on Steven L Anderson, above,...

April 2019

April 16, 2019

RCC caught out lying about ‘dangers’ of non-Catholic Irish schools

The Catholic Church is Ireland has been accused by an Irish academic of spreading misinformation...

March 2019

March 06, 2019

A brief history of New Zealand’s now dead blasphemy law

NEW Zealand no longer has a blasphemy law, having decided yesterday to scrap the archaic...

February 2019

February 12, 2019

Print firm cries ‘foul’ after being fined for turning away a gay client

ALL Jonathon Brennan wanted when he went into Beulah Print and Design, a Christian-run outfit...

January 2019

January 15, 2019

Snakes alive! Is this serpent a sign of Ireland’s godlessness?

THERE are no snakes in Ireland. They were allegedly told to scoot by St Patrick....

October 2018

October 28, 2018

Ireland’s vote on blasphemy further removes it from its Catholic roots

A 'medieval' crime that was 'crowbarred' into Ireland's statute books will now be scrapped, thanks...

October 24, 2018

Victims of evil nuns in Ireland are to be exhumed and reburied

When I posted a piece this week about the religious press urging anti-abortionists to go...