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UP TO 1,400 people turned up to see controversial pastor Angus Buchan giving a talk in Kilkenny last night.
The South African evangelical preacher, who styles himself as Uncle Angus and has his own app, says gay men can be cured by prayer – with his help.
As part of his lucrative brand, Buchan hosts ‘mighty men’ conferences, where he teaches that women should submit to their husbands, and that men should physically discipline their children without their wives’ ‘interference’.
He was previously banned from using council property in Scotland for his talks, and last week Kilkenny’s 28-year-old mayor Patrick O’Neill signed an online petition objecting to his visit.
Alan Slattery of the LGBT community in Kilkenny said 60 people protested outside the event in Cíllin Hill, Kilkenny last night – although they decided to oppose his views, rather than his right to host the event.
“Our only intention was to go there and to say we don’t agree with his views on LGBT, women or how parents,” Slattery told TheJournal.ie.
We weren’t protesting the event taking place.
“There was a petition to stop him coming to Kilkenny, but that was a separate thing I wasn’t involved in. We had a meeting that was decided we should go down and have a peaceful protest.”
He was told by organisers there were 1,400 people at the event in the Hub at Cillín Hill.
TheJournal.ie was unable to reach the events centre and calls to Buchan’s Irish operation were not returned.
Kilkenny mayor Patrick O’Neill said “there seemed to be a good crowd inside”.
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So to sum it up: Yay, we’re shite at our jobs. But not as shite as last year… #progress
If they kept their hands out of peoples luggage I’d be happier, twice had locks broken and items stolen including cash the last time when I forgot to move it to carry on bag. Zero come back also as they declare to be non-liable for any items which go missing while in their custody.
Why on earth would you put cash or valuables in checked luggage? You’re only asking for trouble! It is also a known fact that the TSA in United States will cut your bag open if its locked
Why are these figures counted as “mishandled bags per 1,000 passengers” rather than, let’s say, “mishandled bags per 1,000 pieces of luggage“?
Great spot there Dennis. Data manipulation at it’s best.
Thank god for that. Had my bags mishandled in Amsterdam a few years back.
How about they tackle the mishandling of claims for mishandled bagged procedure… It’s a nightmare still waiting on a cheque for the tour of the globe my bag took for Thanksgiving 2012…
Went to Paris to propose to my now wife, ring went to Barcelona with my bag. Couldn’t say anything. Longest 3 days of my life. Thankfully it all worked out. Staff at Charles de Gaulle were absolutely no help whatsoever though
Rookie error. Never check a ring in! What if tour bag had been lost for good or someone robbed it?
Was a very early flight and forgot to put it in the carry on. If it was robbed I could never tell her and just order another ring. That’s really where my head was during the episode.
Well it all worked out in the end. Nice name btw!
Back at ya brother!
There’s an episode of “Learn French By Podcast” about the staff at CdG being no help whatsoever. Seems to be a common theme emerging here.
While travelling to Brazil with TAP (Air Portugal) at the start of this year with my partner we had to make 2 connections in Europe, one in Frankfurt and the other in Lisbon, in Frankfurt our flight to Lisbon was delayed by over an hour due to technical issues. When we arrived to Lisbon we had to run to make our flight to Sao Paulo, our luggage never made it on the flight, in Sao Paulo we were treated very cold by TAP staff and told we were entitled to R$100 compensation (about €35) to buy clothes etc; which we had to argue for when we went to the relevant person. When our luggage arrived at my partner’s home in Brasilia a day later than expected we realised that 7 bottles of expensive perfumes had been stolen from my partner’s bag, not to mention a Barbie doll and a pair of new jeans. After many stressful attempts to contact TAP about receiving compensation they finally agreed to giving my partner a free return ticket to any city, they refuse to refund him the vale of the perfumes as we do not have proof of purchase, and they actually expect us to use their rude, unhelpful airline again.
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