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Jack of many trades, master of some. Editor, @leavenmag , '1916: The Church & the Rising'. Author, 'Cannae: The Experience of Battle'. Multiple CMA award winner.

Drogheda, Ireland

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1 year

I’m still hopeful this shattering ship will be with us a while yet, but I’ve branched out elsewhere just in case. I’m not yet sold on Mastodon, but I like the other Twitter that’s not Twitter, while @RadiopaperHQ is pleasant and thoughtful whenever I dip my toes into the water.

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4 years

We lost Mam yesterday. After the last few rough years, it was sudden in the end. She was a wonderful mother, and we’ll miss her terribly. It’s a comfort, though, to think of her renewed in God’s loving presence, caring for us from above. Veronica Daly, RIP.

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@afneil @ALucieSmith While de Valera visited the ambassador, he did not go to the embassy, and there was no book of condolences, signed or otherwise: The episode is discomforting enough without journalists and clergy perpetrating lazy falsehoods.

De Valera, Hitler & the visit of condolence May 1945

Éamon de Valera, accompanied by the Secretary of External Affairs, Joseph Walshe, ‘called on Dr Hempel, the German minister to express his condolences’.

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6 years

@dlongenecker1 Loads, and that's a question unworthy of any man, let alone of any Catholic.

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4 years

Today being the anniversary of C.S. Lewis’s death, and with me just hitting this point in Tolkien’s letters, I thought I should share it with you.

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4 years

Eight years ago today, at the tail end of a trip that had entailed a wedding, a funeral, a papal installation, and a late-night trip to hospital, I met a friend of a friend for coffee in a London bookshop. Reader, I married her.

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3 years

People, we’ve had some terrible news from the extended family in the last couple of days. If you can keep us in your prayers, please do.

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2 months

Surprising opening at Mass this lunchtime.

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2 years

St James, the Cappadocian Fathers, St Thomas Aquinas, St Vincent de Paul, William Wilberforce, Nietzsche, Pope Leo XIII, Dorothy Day, Martin Luther King, John Hume, Pope Benedict XVI, and, er, Jesus would like a word. Or even Fr Peter McVerry: he’s clued in on this stuff.

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2 years

I realise we’ve got nothing on the Welsh, but still: I approve of placenames that straddle national maps without breaking a sweat.

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4 months

It’s weird to look at the counties where there are Catholic cathedrals in Ireland, and realise that not merely are two counties home to three cathedrals each, there are no cathedrals in the most populous part of the country. Dublin and the counties surrounding it haven’t any!

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8 months

This was unveiled on the weekend. Expressing both a deep humility and a profound sense of mission, it is, I think, the best religious painting I’ve seen in a while. It’s of Bl. John Sullivan SJ, of course:

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2 years

Right, so I was tell you about our visit yesterday to this breathtaking place, the Oratory of the Sacred Heart in Dun Laoghaire. It’s a real treasure of twentieth-century Irish art and religion, like stepping into the pages of the Book of Kells. /1

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3 years

Inside you there are two toads…

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1 month

Is there a prominent official monument to the Great Famine anywhere in the UK? It was the single most lethal event in the history of the UK, after all, killing over a million people, as compared to the 880,000 and 450,000 or so who died in the First and Second World Wars.

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4 months

Every so often the world throws up examples of how biggest isn’t necessary best. I’d like to see the minutes of the meeting where people decided to copy a centuries’ old Spanish tradition with no connection to them, but to make a point of doing it on a bigger scale.

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Christendom College

4 months

Viva Cristo Rey! Christendom unveiled its new botafumeiro this afternoon as part of the college’s Summer Consortium event. The botafumeiro, which is the largest in the world, will be used for select liturgical celebrations throughout the year, celebrating Christ our King. 👑

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3 years

So, I’ve an interview later in the week, for a job I think I’d be well suited for and where I really think I could do some good and be of real service. Keep me in the prayers please, folks. And if nothing else, be glad this inspired a haircut!

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3 years

I'm afraid my one solid achievement since waking today has been the following joke. Ahem... 'What do you call a heresy that just rips of another heresy?' 'Pelagiarism.' Thank you, here all week, no applause please, just throw money.

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6 years

"Mrs McAleese, her head covered by a fine lace shawl but not her face, shook the outstretched hand firmly and asked the Pontiff if he was feeling better after his flu." As reported in 1999...

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4 years

Life is hard, isn’t it? I mean, don’t get me wrong: it’s good, but it’s hard for all that. This would probably be a good time to ask for prayers for my intentions, if that’s okay.

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4 years

Folks of a praying inclination, please keep my intentions in your prayers over the next couple of days if you can. I’d be most grateful. Thank you.

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2 years

@MaryKenny4 I’m not sure that’s going to hold water, Mary, not least as Ireland was poor and unsuccessful for a very long time while speaking English.

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3 years

Rough news. A friend of mine from my time as a novice friar died today while in surgery in England, the fifth of the older brothers from Cork to have died since my novitiate. He was a good friend, and a good brother, and someone I’ll miss. Fr Denis Keating OP, RIP.

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4 years

This is beautiful.

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3 years

Just to say to those of you who’ve had me in your prayers and wished me luck in my job hunt of late, and especially this week, thank you so much again. I got an offer on Wednesday, and received my contract today. I have high hopes for this.

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Greg Daly

3 years

So, two things: I've been reading the Annals of the Four Masters, like you do, and am rather struck by just how frenzied the ninth century seems to have been in Ireland; also, I've another interview tomorrow, so please do keep me in your prayers, folks.

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2 years

That Hildegard von Bingen had a way with words: 'In the same way that the stars illuminate the sky at night, God made humanity to sparkle. We’re created for maturity. We’re made to give out light like the sun, the moon, and the stars.'

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Greg Daly

9 months

For those who are praying sorts: some would be appreciated for my intentions now. Not a story for Twitter, but He knows what it’s about.

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Greg Daly

6 years

@JolietJay @roddreher Given the Big Bang was the hypothesis of a Belgian priest and evolution rests in large part of the genetic discoveries of a Silesian monk, all in line with how the scriptures had been interpreted by Augustine and many others, it's hard to imagine that they wouldn't.

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1 year

It’s exhausting that this kind of article keeps getting published, with lines like “those who came from further afield did so from Ireland, or from Britain’s white settler colonies” delivered straight-faced as though such people weren’t immigrants. /1

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The Critic

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The claim that London was “built by immigrants” is a complete distortion of history, argues @sam_bidwell

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Greg Daly

3 years

So, for those of you of a praying inclination, if you could please keep me in mind tomorrow and over the next few days I’d be hugely grateful. Not something to worry about, so much as something to hope for. Thank you.

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Greg Daly

5 years

It strikes me that we should be hearing loads about St Clare of Assisi at this time. A saint who couldn’t go to Mass due to sickness but watched visions of it from her home? That sounds very apt for these days.

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This claim that 1980s Ireland was a failed state seems very odd and clearly false. We were peaceful and societally stable. with high levels of trust and social cohesion, functioning public and civil institutions, and an excellent education system. /1

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Constantin Gurdgiev

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#Ireland is an interesting country & a very revealing political 'laboratory' for the entire West. Let's have a quick thread on that. Ireland came into this century on foot of being a failed state in the 1980s. As such, its younger generations grew up in an environment of rapid+

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3 years

Ah, I see. If ritual and music matter more than doctrine, then we needn’t worry about the moral doctrines of Christianity, and then, once we’ve ditched our duties to our neighbours, God’s call for us to love each other…

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4 years

This is hugely important. The fact that John Hume’s Catholicism drove, inspired, and fuelled him is crucial to understanding him, and tributes to him - however well-meant- that omit this misrepresent the man. His faith wasn’t a secularised and discrete compartment of his life.

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8 months

It’s very weird to read Cromwell’s own account of the taking of Drogheda and realise that some people think there wasn’t a massacre of inhabitants here. Look at these passages from his own 17 September 1649 letter, for instance, as taken from Reilly’s ‘Cromwell was Framed’. /1

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Greg Daly

6 months

New job today, which is very exciting. Back last autumn I was asking for prayers from you all in connection with this. I realise petitionary prayer is more about bringing us in harmony with God’s will than changing his mind - we don’t control that! - but still, thank you again.

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Greg Daly

6 years

Not really surprising that Together For Yes is welcoming Google's decision, announced today, to shut down domestic as well as foreign advertising in the referendum campaign. Perhaps a bit more surprising that their press release is dated as of *yesterday*.

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@FrMatthewLC @AMWClarkLaw @FLOTUS @JoeBiden @LeahLibresco @firstthingsmag Except you’re not, because they didn’t “deny [their] son the grace of the final sacraments before he died”. They made an understandable decision based on not wanting to distress their son for him not to receive extreme unction *on one occasion* but did not block it another time.

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11 months

Which way, western man?

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1 year

@JSMilbank Is this the same 'hand-wringing Britain' that even now is doing all it can to protect murderous members of her armed forces from facing prosecutions in Northern Ireland, after having protected her murderous forces time and again in Ireland, and only maybe once apologised for it?

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3 years

@KevPow3 Dissing the Credit Union is most definitely not the way to go.

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4 months

Rotten day. My childhood best friend’s sister, who’d been my sister’s childhood best friend, died last night. Over the decades she’s been almost a surrogate sister, a co-worker, and always a very dear friend. I’m bereft, and can barely imagine how her family are.

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7 years

@cathyby @john_mcguirk It'd be an odd 'natural state' that was marked by so much conflict.

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1 year

It’s kind of wild this kind of nonsense being shared by at least somewhat respected academics. It not being politically correct is one thing; it not even being close to factually correct is another. Racist fictions are no better in tweed jackets than coming from shaven heads.

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This is a fabulous review. I hope the author writes similar reviews of history books he hasn’t read on, say, Nazis, torture, rape, genocide, slavery, apartheid, etc. Biggaresque pseudo-history is a hell of a drug, dangerous even in small doses, folk: just say no.

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4 years

It's very strange to see people who genuinely see themselves as pro-lifers deploying classic pro-choice arguments for doing without masks, or reopening pubs or restaurants or shops, or resuming collective worship. /1

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Greg Daly

3 years

Thanks again to everyone who's had me in their prayers of late. Unfortunately, I didn't get the job I was hoping for - and where I really think I could have done some good. Still, as Katie Taylor said back in the day, sometimes the plans you have in your heart aren't God's plans.

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6 months

It'd have been her birthday today. I do miss her. 1/2

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Greg Daly

4 years

You think you’ve seen them all, and then someone delights you afresh.

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4 years

So, this has been interesting. A tweet yesterday has led to a bunch of fellow Catholics calling me a fool, a liar, a ‘lying bastard’, a Francis-worshipper, and someone whose brain has melted. It’s striking that I’ve never had online atheists say such things to me.

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4 years

@ArchbishopEamon @rte @RTEOne I’m pretty sure that even ‘joking’ that Christians worship a rapist must count as hate speech, never mind being gratuitously insulting.

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11 months

@ctrlamb This seems appropriate and long overdue, but what’s the formal reason that’s given? Is there one?

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2 years

I have a gloomy suspicion that next year’s inaugural Brigidine bank holiday will see a whole new level of mythwashing, that vice of modern Irish popular culture where we suppress inconvenient facts about our forebears in favour of what we’d prefer them to have believed. /1

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2 years

It’s a special anniversary.

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Greg Daly

9 months

Things have improved. Not beyond worry, but still. Thank you all.

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Greg Daly

9 months

For those who are praying sorts: some would be appreciated for my intentions now. Not a story for Twitter, but He knows what it’s about.

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Greg Daly

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I’ve often thought about this picture from late 2005, the first selfie I was ever in, though how Seb twisted his arm to do it do not know. Paul, in the middle, died in an accident a few months later. And now today I learned that we lost Seb yesterday. RIP, old friends.

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4 years

This would be a fine gift for anyone with an interest in birds or photography. We got it a couple of months back, and it's an absolute delight.

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Greg Daly

4 years

Happy birthday, Mam. I’m sorry neither Dad nor I nor any of the rest of us can be with you today, but I’m so glad you’re being kept safe.

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@tonyannett I don’t think that’s quite correct. Killed by the Romans rather than ‘the Jews’, yes, for sure, but not really because of his teachings except insofar as the claim to kingship was taken at face value such that he was formally executed as a dissident.

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1 year

I’m not sure I’ll ever cease to be perplexed by Catholics thinking the common good should be construed in national rather than common terms. I mean, in talking of our duties, Jesus answers the “who is my neighbour?” question by telling a story that transcends national boundaries.

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4 years

@HollyCairnsTD Have you tried? One angle is that this matters at a profound level to lots of people, and that the churches generate huge amounts of social capital that is worth sustaining. Another is that this is practical: big buildings, people reliably socially distanced, limited movement.

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2 months

Honestly, this is nuts. Yes, this scene may have been rubbish, but it seems it has nothing to do with the Last Supper. It’s a catwalk at a nightclub, where the framing at times concealed how there were people along both sides of it. That was it. Let’s stop embarrassing ourselves.

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Bishop Robert Barron

2 months

Friends, my thoughts on the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics. #Olimpiadas2024 #OlympicGames

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Greg Daly

19 days

Grateful to the Diocese of Cork and Ross providing a fresh example of why the lack of an Oxford Comma can lead to chaos. Chaos, I tell you.

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Greg Daly

3 years

Crucially the point Tom is making here is that human rights - understood as things intrinsic to our very humanity and that remain so regardless of what laws are passed etc - have such theological roots.

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Tom Holland

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Human rights are a concept deeply rooted in Christian theology, & it requires quite as much a leap of faith to believe in them as it does to believe in God. The genius of the American & French revolutionaries was to make us forget this.

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Like I've said, this has been a hard year and I'm tired of losing people. My auntie Eileen passed today, joining my mum and the rest of her older sisters. She was always the one I was told I was most like. I didn't see it myself, but everyone else did. RIP, so.

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Greg Daly

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Anyway, enough of the madness. Another big day for me career-wise in the morning, so please keep the hands steepled for me if you’re a praying sort, fingers crossed if you’re a superstitious sort, and good thoughts transmitted if you’re a telepathic sort.

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Greg Daly

4 years

@neilhimself Madness. I’m still glad I got to talk fondly of it in The Irish Catholic. I wish I’d had more space, in fairness, but that’s journalism.

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4 years

@DawnHFoster All it cost him was his freedom from the threat of dying from Covid.

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Greg Daly

1 year

This is disgraceful and needs disavowing pronto. None of this ‘hoping it blows over’ nonsense. We do that too often, and though the storms pass theres’s always damage that remains.

@nilepostnews

Nile Post

1 year

“The poor will not go to heaven”- Archbishop Ssemogerere. More details: I #NilePostNews

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1 year

I’ve been thinking a fair bit lately - perhaps more than I should have - about lists people post of books that will always stay with them, or books to know them, or whatever. And so, after lots of pondering here’s what I come up with *today* as ‘twelve books to know me’. /1

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3 years

Reminder for the day that when it came to penance for terrible sin, St Colmcille reckoned spending a dozen years among the British could do the job.

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Greg Daly

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Very sorry to hear that Jean Vanier has died. A friend of mine had her life transformed by her time in L'Arche, volunteering at L'Arche in Cork has been a real highlight of my life in recent years, and Jean Vanier's books are an inspiration. I doubt he'll need our prayers.

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Greg Daly

3 years

Given that CS Lewis was neither English nor Catholic, he seems an odd choice for so prominent a position on this advert.

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1 year

@kisstheblade_ That’s a great one. I also think often of Charlie Brown having hoes and this:

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Greg Daly

2 years

Today’s been a busy, hectic, wonderful day, and one of its highlights from receiving this penal cross @gymforthesoul carved from 3,000-year-old bog oak. Isn’t it beautiful? Frankly, meeting Jim for the first time would have been delight aplenty, but this is breathtaking.

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Greg Daly

4 years

It’s beautiful and heartbreaking to see the 2,945 candles burning at @knockshrine to commemorate the 2,945 lives lost to Covid in Ireland so far this year, reminding us to pray for their souls and those they leave behind, and urging us to solidarity in the face of the pandemic.

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There’s something structurally dishonest about modern Ireland that we’ll post a biography of an artist on a wall, describing her as having issues with the Catholic Ireland of her day, but wholly omitting how her deep Catholic faith drove her life, her work, and her critique. 1/3

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Greg Daly

5 years

These are all very admirable, but it would be interesting to have @AmnestyIreland explain how it supports a fundamental right to life when it has sought and spent large sums of money to campaign for a right to end human lives.

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Amnesty International

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❤️ Right to life. ⚖️ Right to access the law. 📢 Right to freedom of expression. 💭 Right to freedom of thought. 👯‍♀️ Right to peaceful assembly & association. 👨🏽‍🏫 Right to education. 😴 Right to rest. These—& more—are our fundamental rights.

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4 years

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a more beautiful piece of metalwork anywhere in the world than this marvellous chalice, made to hold a greater treasure still, and which we’re lucky enough to have in Dublin.

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Elva Johnston 🌻

4 years

The beautiful Ardagh Chalice @NMIreland , out of lockdown & gleaming; this magnificent work dates to the 8th century & was found in Co. #Limerick ; the chalice incorporates gold, amber, enamel, glass & spun silver [Ardagh Chalice & detail, self-photographed]

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Greg Daly

2 years

Mass today saw the priest dropping the Gloria and the Creed, and engineering a hybrid Eucharistic prayer. As with people who pick and choose between Church teachings they advocate, this kind of stuff baffles me: as much as anything, it's surely easier to think with the Church. /1

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Greg Daly

1 year

It turns out the Pope’s answers were well thought out and carefully expressed, making it sad that these chaps then stamped their feet, saying, ‘“Yes” or “no” answers only! That’s how Dubia work! We’ll ask again!’ - and then asked questions that can’t be answered ‘yes’ or ‘no’. /1

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Cardinal Burke

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Brothers and Sisters in Christ, we have manifested our deepest concern to the Roman Pontiff…

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2 years

Well, the solemn profession is looming. Three cheers for Sr Carino, formerly Megan Hodder of this digital parish, who’s signing up for life with @DomSrStJoseph very soon. It’s looking like a #nuntastic day!

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Greg Daly

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“The Romanov Empire, the Byzantine Empire, the Roman Empire, the British Empire… empires come and empires go, leaving blood-stained pages in history - that is their legacy. The meek will inherit the earth.” Quite the homily this morning.

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Greg Daly

11 months

I wonder what it is about Twitter that invites such odd behaviour. You can say something to someone you know, and then dozens of people with whom you’ve never interacted all jump in shouting at you, sneering and gasping and hurling abuse. Do they do this in their normal lives?

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Greg Daly

1 year

It's funny to revisit Bertrand Russell's 'Why I Am Not a Christian' and realise that his tone is almost indistinguishable from that of C.S. Lewis and indeed Ronald Knox. It's as though 'Oxbridge chap writing about religious matters for the common man' was a formal genre.

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Greg Daly

5 years

@TomBlenkinsop @SalmaYaqoob I’m pretty sure he’ll be remembered for his contribution to peace in Ireland too.

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Greg Daly

5 years

This seems a depressingly apt image of modern Ireland: the Baby Jesus is missing from the crib across from the GPO, while Mary’s hands have been broken off.

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Greg Daly

4 years

It’s very strange to join remotely in your own mother’s Month’s Mind Mass, and not even to be able to see your own family. These are strange, sad times. I think the restrictions are justified, and am sure there’s not a hint of an intention there to cause pain, but it does hurt.

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Greg Daly

3 years

There we go. The Lego Star Wars Christmas diorama is pretty much complete, with the @ebruenig -approved tree having its home, though it’ll be another month and a half till the party happens. Luke, you’ll notice, is early.

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Greg Daly

4 years

If Easter were derived from a pagan nature festival, this *might* be correct, but as it is it sits where it does on the calendar because of Passover. I hope the Taoiseach wouldn’t insult Jewish people by describing Pesach as their festival that marks winter becoming spring.

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Leo Varadkar

4 years

Easter is a special moment in the Christian calendar marking rebirth and resurrection as winter turns to spring. Am sorry that people of faith cannot attend mass or service in person this year but your prayers today matter more than ever before

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Greg Daly

3 years

Tomorrow morning's the main event, so please: don't forget me!

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Greg Daly

3 years

So, I’ve an interview later in the week, for a job I think I’d be well suited for and where I really think I could do some good and be of real service. Keep me in the prayers please, folks. And if nothing else, be glad this inspired a haircut!

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Greg Daly

5 years

Salvador de Madariaga wrote in 1948, "This Europe must be born. And she will, when Spaniards say 'our Chartres', Englishmen say 'our Cracow', Italians 'our Copenhagen' and Germans 'our Bruges'. Then Europe will live." Tonight, at least, we say 'our Paris' and lament Notre Dame.

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Greg Daly

2 years

@KevinSJoyce I think this might be places with the term ‘saint’ in their name, as there’d be loads of places in Ireland named after saints that don’t feature the term ‘saint’ or ‘san’ or ‘naomh’.

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Greg Daly

4 years

Well, it’s taken six weeks but we’ve finally finished an amazing and at times impossible-seeming jigsaw puzzle, courtesy of @frbobmac . In fairness, @jfount did about 90% of it.

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Greg Daly

2 years

The fact that there are two barbers beside the Wellington memorial in the centre of Trim, with neither called ‘Just a Trim’, is really a scandal.

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Greg Daly

6 years

Given Google's monopolistic position, its mid-campaign changing of the electoral landscape, and its links to Yes campaigners, its scorning of any transparency by refusing to justify its electoral interference shows how empty its old boast 'don't be evil' has become.

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Greg Daly

1 year

Fancy marrying in a non-religious church setting? A medieval Catholic monastery, dissolved by the English, and occupied by Anglicans, who built a Georgian church just over 200 years ago. Now you can party with Christian aesthetics but without any inconvenient beliefs or duties!

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Greg Daly

3 years

@bridsmithTD @IrishAntiWarMvt This is ‘both sides’ nonsense, making it seem as though you Putin’s actions are justified. All else aside, NATO exists in no small part so countries are guaranteed allies in the case of being attacked. It doesn’t ‘expand’ - countries wanting protection join it. Why oppose that?

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Greg Daly

2 years

I know Eamon Duffy talks of how in 1950s Dundalk 12-minute Masses were loved, and when I was growing up 25-minute ones were normal, but I really don’t see any excuse for 30-minute Sunday Masses now. We shouldn’t be communicating that this is something to just get out of the way.

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Greg Daly

3 years

Well. This has been a marvellous anniversary dinner with @jfount - here’s to many more!

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Greg Daly

3 years

To look at my dad, you’d never know he was a day over 89. He’s not doing badly, either - he cycled over to Mam’s grave yesterday, and seems to have spent most of today on the phone to sundry siblings, when not being distracted by visiting children, grandchildren, and neighbours!

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