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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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The Healy Rae’s are a national embarrassment.
@carol mullen: Why ? Because they get the job done ? I’m not from the constituency they’re from so they probably won’t do much for me,but why do the people of Kerry keep voting for them
@carol mullen: Only to those whose heads are too posh to push. They respond to their constituents concerns and deliver unlike the Social Democrats and Labour party who run to the hills In case they be held accountable in fairness to the Greens at least they took their place they’ve taken their beating which was unfair given they stepped up and influenced government policy.
@Paul Harte: They claim they get everything done but it is not them at all.
@Gary Kearney: So who gets it done. I understand that they don’t physically go out and do it themselves, but who is getting it done so. If more TDs worked for the constituents like these 2 and just interested in being in photos and actually did what the voters need and want, we’d be a lot better off. Yes, they are well paid for it, but are they getting anything more than the useless TDs who do nothing other than look after themselves.
If there is 1euro in agreement for the people of Kerry, there is another one in it for Healy-Rae’s
Milking the country they are.
Make kilgarvan great again
They play the oldest game in the book. All politics is local and blame it on anybody else, particularly Dublin. Works like a dream.
They complain about schemes and policies the government run and yet make millions out of them.
We can’t laugh at trump when we have e the Healy raes in politics here
Could they be any worse than Mehole and Simson
@Paul Harte: Thankfully our voters rejected being ruled by the Dark rooms of Belfast and those living in a foreign country.
Healy Raes and Mattie Mcgraw are among the few politicians that actually care about doing the job they elected for instead of rattling on about other countries business.
@gregory pym: And Michael Collins isn’t to bad either and the guy in Limerick who’s in with Michael, his name escapes me, is he Donaghue or something like that 0
so the healy raes and mucheal lowery will decide who our next government will be, we’ll its always great to have friends in low places Michael and Simon
These two should not be allowed near politics. They are a national disgrace
In fairness, he cannot say anything else now can he!
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