Ireland – Europe’s last theocracy?
Francis Sedgemore, Thursday 9 July 2009 at 12:33 UTC
As reported by Index on Censorship‘s political editor Padraig Reidy, the Republic of Ireland has under the guise of a defamation law reform just created new offence of blasphemy.
Is Éire Europe’s last theocracy? It was certainly like that when I lived there as a child in the 1970s. But I was under the impression that the Republic of Ireland had since moved on and become a modern, democratic and thoroughly European country guided by enlightenment principles.
Where is Dermot Morgan when we need him? He’s a dead fecker, that’s what he is.
And as for Irish Justice Minister Dermot Ahern, Holy Mother of God! I thought that British politicians were bad enough.
Feed the writer! 
Thursday 9 July 2009 at 12:57 UTC
Shouldn’t Dermot Morgan be canonised? On several occasions I have been pissed off to a horrendous extent. And then, thanks to His intercession (via the medium of a repeat of Father Ted), I have become well again. On the basis that the RC Church operates (cf all the stuff about Cardinal Newman) doesn’t this constitute grounds for him becoming a Saint? Mind you I think he was an atheist.
Thursday 9 July 2009 at 13:04 UTC
I think Morgan’s remains should be dug up and set on permanent display outside Séan Brady’s archiepiscopal palace in Armagh.
Thursday 9 July 2009 at 14:43 UTC
You have to admit “Saint Father Ted” has a rather good ring to it. Nearly as good as The Reverend Brother Al Green. But not quite as funky, except when he’s listening to Shaft.