Conor Lenihan: “Back off Vincent!”

Via Cedar Lounge, human passion from Conor Lenihan sufficient to take Vincent Browne out of this own programme. Impressive stuff. It put me in mind of Shylock’s speech in Act Three, Scene One of the Merchant of Venice: If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we …

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Good heavens! You’re the science minister…

At least Edwin Poots was only the culture minister…  The Fianna Fáil junior minister “with special responsibility for science”, Conor Lenihan, may believe the party has been “very damaged”, but he’s also got reason to thank his lucky stars for the recent controversy about Brian Cowen’s under par interview. At the start of the week the Irish government’s Minister for Science had been due to officially launch an anti-evolution book, “The Origin of Specious Nonsense” [Link? – Ed] You can google it yourself. …

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