Caricatures Ireland

60th Birthday Present!

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If you’d like to enquire about a caricature for a birthday present me.

Blogging’s great, bar bullshit.

Tonight Deaglán de Bréadún posted the following to the Irish Times politics blog:

Looking at the boyish face of that noble young Garda killed in Co Donegal brings home how far into the abyss this country has gone. It also reinforces my point about the decline and semi-disgrace of the Church not being good news as it leaves this society without a moral compass. I am not a religious person but I recognise the value of people whose role is to set out standards of behaviour. Unfortunately, with regard to the child abuse scandal, those standards were flouted by some of the standard-bearers themselves. Resign the lot of you and let us start again like the Twelve Apostles did way back when.

I left the following comment. It may not get published.

This is singularly the worst piece of writing I have ever seen from the Irish Times. You might as well invoke the Seven Dwarfs.
You’re not a religious person Deaglán. Well then perhaps you should stop looking to a church for a societal moral compass. The greatest lie we were ever told was that a self-appointed cabal has the right to shape an irrelevant morality in Ireland.
Stop idealising figureheads. There is no connection between the death of a young Guard and the decline of Irish civilisation. That is wishful thinking. It conveniently avoids the notion that the Republic of Ireland is corrupt from the bottom up and we’re merely experiencing the result of that corruption. A healthy democracy adheres to the tenets it was constructed on and punishes transgressions against its sovereign people. In Ireland the sovereign people reward corruption in the ballot box and collection basket and where that corruption exists in the civil service merely shrugs its shoulders; ach, it’s the way things are.
Ireland still isn’t a republic. It simply services the oligarchies of its political parties, and the dog-collared infections of an obviously decadent church.

A good poultice Deaglán, for a start, would be honesty.

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Wedding Entertainment in the Nuremore Hotel, Monaghan

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Here’s some drawings from a recent wedding in Carrickmacross.

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Friday Music Video: Rage Against the Machine, Killing in the Name

This week it has to be Rage Against the Machine’s Killing in the Name, in honour of the campaign to keep the X-Factor rubbish off the Christmas number 1 spot!
Plenty of cussing so don’t play it in the office.