Slugger O'Toole

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1. Comment on The withering of Irish Catholicism sees Sunday attendance plummet in the cities…
   on 18 May 2012 at 8:12 pm

   @oldhack apologies, the Irish News must be going for a better class of readers these days then, because it wasn’t obvious to thickos like me and I’m sure many others who read the piece.

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2. Comment on The withering of Irish Catholicism sees Sunday attendance plummet in the cities…
   on 18 May 2012 at 3:46 pm

   @oldhack I’ll assume you have some connection to the Irish News as you only ever seem to respond to me when I comment on something from that paper so here is something for you. I wasn’t looking for conspiracy theories as if you look at my post, I provided two alternatives. Fair enough if the vigil figures are included, however then my other alternative stands i.e. the Irish News author of these pieces didn’t mention the vigil Mass figures anywhere and as that was the first question that popped into my head with all of the references to “Sunday Mass”, then it’s clear she is either a poor journalist or ignorant of what she is writing about (maybe both).

   As you know I don’t buy the rag anymore after the disgraceful story relating to the GAA player who died on the pitch, so I don’t really know if this is these prevailing low standards the Irish News reader has come accustomed too over the intervening years.

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3. Comment on The withering of Irish Catholicism sees Sunday attendance plummet in the cities…
   on 18 May 2012 at 1:29 pm

   Just bought the paper (for the Ulster Championship supplement), read the articles and one thing stands out as curious. The articles repeatedly refer to “Sunday Mass” but surely most people now go to the vigil Mass on Saturday evening? Is that this isn’t mentioned mere ignorance on the part of the author, Meave Connolly i.e. in not making it clear the figures include the vigil Mass or is it a deliberate misrepresentation of the figures? If the latter, I smell an agenda at work.

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4. Comment on The withering of Irish Catholicism sees Sunday attendance plummet in the cities…
   on 18 May 2012 at 11:48 am

   A little bit facetious but if I was a Catholic I wouldn’t go to Mass there either. Here are a couple of pictures from the interior of the Church of the Nativity, Poleglass.

   http://bit.ly/J2icOp

   http://bit.ly/JXbywN

   Let’s face it they would be unrecognisable to most Catholics. More like the RTE studio mock-up on a Sunday morning.

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5. Comment on Normality and rugby
   on 18 May 2012 at 12:55 am

   @Mike, any Irish game I’ve been to in Lansdowne Rd has both the Irish national and Ulster flags on the flag poles with supporters waving both in the stands. I’ve no issue with either. Neither do I have an issue with people waving the old NI banner at Ravenhill, the difference being nowadays the equal use of the Ulster flag (red and yellow) makes for a more inclusive atmosphere.

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6. Comment on Normality and rugby
   on 17 May 2012 at 10:45 pm

   Oh look, ‘true’ NI Ulster fans trying to pick and choose who should support ‘their’ team. Alan, as Dec says, rugby was always popular across the divide only the propensity of Ulster supporters to fly the Stormont Banner banner put many of us off (lesson for the NI soccer people). I live only a stones throw from Ravenhill and enjoy getting down for a game and on my visits I’ve met many fellow GAA members and republicans, including ‘Baz’. In fact even Joe Brolly was waxing lyrical in the Gaelic Life a few weeks ago about the discipline and respect rugby fosters in young players (his son plays for Malone), so before you get all possessive and shit you might want to remember a significant part of the income for the (now professional) Ulster rugby team comes from northern republicans like ‘Baz’, Joe and myself.

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7. Comment on Licence fee freeze leads BBC NI slashes top journalist jobs…
   on 10 May 2012 at 1:41 pm

   They weren’t sacked, they took voluntary redundancy, probably a very generous package at that. No doubt they’ll be able to take that package and use their contacts to waltz into a new post at the Stormont Press Office.

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8. Comment on Snap, Craickle and Pop: The Controversy of Popular Gaelicisation
   on 2 May 2012 at 11:33 am

   Irish words have been Anglicised for hundreds of years as any glance at the map will tell you. Here we’ve maybe one going the other way, big deal…

   If this is how O’Muirithe “keeps his hand in” he’d better advised maybe finding another hobby of more import such as flower arraging instead of boring us with his foibles.

   No Seamus you know-all arrogant sod, we don’t “think that the word is an Irish one”, it’s just a word we use and like all languages words and meaning change over time. Get over it…

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9. Comment on Imitation is the greatest form of flattery? Is the Belfast Telegraph standing on the shoulders of the News Letter?
   on 1 May 2012 at 6:08 pm

   The Tele did the same with the Derrytresk from the Irish News the other day.

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10. Comment on Father Brian D’arcy told to submit copy to Church censor…
    on 29 April 2012 at 8:49 pm

    We’ve already had Barney the Dinosaur appear at Mass in Cork. Fr D’arcy and the “liberal” ACP would have Holy Mass transformed into a circus like the “liberal” Austrians in this video:

    http://bit.ly/IxYJeb

    or this farce of a “Mass” from the ‘Neocatechumenal Way’

    http://bit.ly/Ko96fc

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