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Paul Larkin

Chroniclers are privileged to enter where they list, to come and go through keyholes, to ride upon the wind, to overcome in their soarings up and down, all obstacles of distance, time and place.
Charles Dickens - Barnaby Rudge, Chapter The Ninth

The devil at the heart of the Irish Catholic Church

800 rapists and/or abusers within 200 religious schools and “care” institutions in Ireland. (My paraphrase of a statistic given in the Report by the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse – Mr. Justice Ryan - 2009)

Readers may wish to go this YouTube clip where a victim of Irish religious sex abusers describes his ordeal in gripping and heart breaking detail:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jHqndf9Kx4

All cultures have devils and bogeymen. These are not just some product of a passing bad dream but real live powers of darkness that are able to intervene directly in the lives of humans so as to inflict pain or oppression on them and turn them away from the good. In broad cultural terms, the devil represents the dark side of a struggle between day and night, between good and evil, between hope and despair. This myth, or if you like this metaphor for the capacity for evil within man, has been with us since we first started to tell stories.

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A response from Brian Anson to today's May Day blog on Martin McGuinness

A RESPONSE TO PAUL’S BLOG ON JACK JONES & MARTIN McGUINNESS.

I agree with everything Paul has written. The worrying, and sad, possibility is that the threat to Martin McGuinness could become a replay of the Michael Collins tragedy in 1922.
Collins who, almost single-handedly, had created the Republican Army, was a good man. I don’t believe he was right to sign the Treaty which partitioned Ireland, but I do believe that he did it in good faith believing that it was a crucial step towards the unification of the country, a goal which he believed would come, by force or negotiation, soon after The Treaty. There was a certain logic in his thinking: The Republic had been fighting to free it’s entire country: The Treaty left just six counties to free. Collins was not a politician, he was a freedom fighter. Who knows what the history of Ireland would have been during the past century had this genuine Republican fighter not been assassinated by his former comrades? Léigh an t-alt uilig - Read Full Article....

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