@Darren Davis: the Illuminati. Rte

@Jim Buckley Barrett: The Old Testament is older than the Christian Bible

@Christophe Walter: the Old Testament is the first half of the Christian Bible. How can something be older than itself?

@Jonathan Nolan: First. Its in the name.

@Jim Buckley Barrett: similar but different.

@Jim Buckley Barrett: are you old enough to remember someone being jailed for being gay?

@Jim Buckley Barrett: I’m sure Gay Byrne interviewed a few gay people over the years and wasn’t jailed for it.

I don’t think anyone was ever actually jailed for being gay in the history of the state, it was certainly very rare.

@Jim Buckley Barrett: Yeah, so you said above…we heard you the first time. The thing is, the guy who was imprisoned only conducted an interview with him…what are you going to compare that to??

@Fifty Shades of Sé: Between 1940 and 1978, an average of 13 men a year were jailed for homosexual offences. Between 1962 and 1972, there were 455 convictions.

https://www.joe.ie/news/varadkar-apologises-lgbt-630278

@Fifty Shades of Sé: David Norris was on the Late Late loads of times. One memorable appearance was as a celebrity guest on the 1986 Toy Show. I immediately rang 999 and reported Gay to RTÉ but I’m not sure the cops arrested the right Gay

@Kamshafft: He`s a one trick pony at this stage

@Fifty Shades of Sé: There is so much gay in this comment that you could change your handle to Fifty Shades of Gay, fella. :-)

@Booger: Says the bloke called Booger…………. LOL

@Kamshafft: Ha ha ha! Take a chill pill you ranty oul wan!

@Kamshafft: so who made you judge and jury on what constitutes a stupid comment? You’re coming across as one nasty individual

@James Paterson: Agreed

@Kamshafft: What a load of insulting vitriol. Calm yourself. The people of Ireland, not the Catholic church, voted to respect the rights of the LGBT community. The Catholic church like Islam considers homosexuality abnormal, sinful and evil. Neither is progressive, inclusive or tolerant of diversity. If I were gay, I’d fear Christianity almost as much, especially in countries like Uganda or Kenya where the church still holds sway over peoples minds in a totalitarian manner. Thank ‘god’ we have moved on an inch by comparison. Let’s not pretend Catholicism in Ireland is a defender of equal rights for gays…

@Paul Heffernan: Well at least that isn’t an uninformed sweeping statement about a country you know nothing about.

@Before it’s too late: you cleared that right up for us thanks

@Jim Buckley Barrett: yes and we moved on from it as well ! Egypt haven’t and that’s the point here

@Sean Treacy: Sean, people in glass house….

Give the country a chance.

@Jim Buckley Barrett: ye Jim, the Catholic Church doing it makes it ok

@Jim Buckley Barrett: give the country a chance? Clearly you know very little about Africa or the middle East. This isn’t about countries its about bronze age myths made up by farmers to protect their tribes & form religions.Well a person believes that fresh water & salt water don’t mix & that a man flew off on a winged horse & split the moon in half & that their God must be protected by violence then gay rights is way down the priority list. remember religion poisons everything.

@Pixie McMullen: misinterpret another persons comment pal?? Ahh sure it happens, don’t worry about it….

@Rian O’Ceallaigh: My Bad Rian, i was thinking the guy got jailed for giving a gay man a platform on which to speak about him being Gay, never thought about it from that angle, apologies

@Devilsavocado: Ahhhhh, thanks for that, makes me feel a whole lot better getting a message of support from you….. :-)

@Pixie McMullen: Best not to jump down people’s throats so hastily as you did above. Think of the context of their comments, rather than giving into pent up emotional impulses.

@Pixie McMullen: your welcome pal,, and thanks for giving me a good laugh, I enjoyed that. Now I’m off to bed, work in the morning….:)

@Orla Smith: What on earth are you babbling on about this time Mr Orla Smith?

@Devilsavocado: No worries pal, as long as it helps you get over your “Demons” :-)

@Orla Smith: PS, i didn`t jump down anyones throat, hyperbole much?

@Pixie McMullen: Your reply to Rian, totally uncalled for. You made a very poorly judged assumption there, seems to happen a lot.

@Orla Smith: Totally uncalled for by asking questions?
What did i assume? please enlighten me, At least i don`t come onto social media masquerading as a member of the opposite sex, but whatever floats your boat, methinks you have a closet deeper than Narnia, could be time for you to step into the limelight here in Ireland

@Devilsavocado: what is this “work” you speak of?

@Diaspora’d: what am I looking at!? 2 articles establishing new relations 2 years after the coupe. Bravo! Although in the US it wasn’t considered a coupe as that would mean they’d have to stop funding the dictator. But I remember you fully backing El-Sisi not so long ago even stating your support for the fall of democracy as long as the democratically elected Morsi was not in power. Have you had a sudden change of heart perhaps?

@Cormac Ó Braonáin: the word is coup, with a silent p. Coupe is an alternative rendering of coupé, which is either a four-wheeled, enclosed, horse-drawn carriage or a type of car typically with two doors and sloped rear roof. I’m pretty sure Sisi is not an automobile. You obviously don’t read all that often if you can’t spot the difference. How are you able to make informed opinions if you don’t read very often?

@Brian Ó Dálaigh: quite a post for zero relevance. How’s your weeknights treating ya, pet?

@Cormac Ó Braonáin: 2 years after? Morsi was president of Egypt until July 2013, Obama froze military aid to Egypt by September 2013…Russia was in like a shot cozying up to Sissi with the hope of selling him weapons and backing him if he chose to run in the soon to be arranged elections.

@Cormac Ó Braonáin: it’s actually quite relevant. How can we treat what you say as true when it’s obvious you don’t do enough reading on the topic to inform yourself? If you did do enough reading you’d recognise the difference between a coup and a coupe. Heck, I knew the difference when I was 12. When you couple your lack of reading with the fact you support the murder and ethnic cleansing of 10,000s of innocent Tibetans, Uighurs, Hui, Kazakhs, Mongols and Christian Chinese simply because the perpetrators are not Jewish, it really leads me to believe that your opinions, including those regarding Sisi, are populist-driven rather than information-driven. So, how can we trust your opinion on Sisi and Egypt, given your lack of knowledge?

@Damon16: you mean this Israel?
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35978328

@Cormac Ó Braonáin: Yes that Israel. Obviously in the ultra-orthodox community homosexuality won’t be accepted. But I could say the same for hyper devout catholic families here. In either case its the exception not the rule, that’s the difference.

@Cormac Ó Braonáin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVJWBnPNkfk

@Cormac Ó Braonáin: Tel Aviv is one of the most gay friendly cities in the world. You really have to scrape the barrel in order to portray Israel as anti-gay.

@John Smith: ireland and Israel. But not Gaza or West Bank where gays are abused, extorted and even killed. Yet the shinners love the old Gazans and detest Israelis. Go figure..

@John Smith: ireland and Israel. But not Gaza or West Bank where gays are abused, extorted and even killed. Yet the shinners love the old Gazans and detest Israelis. Go figure..

@John Smith: ireland and Israel. But not Gaza or West Bank where gays are abused, extorted and even killed. Yet the shinners love the old Gazans and detest Israelis. Go figure..

@Diaspora’d: While El-Sisi was indeed put into power by Washington while eradicating democracy from Egypt, the US were the only country that didn’t recognise it as a coup. Most American representatives decided to celebrate the fall of democracy in Egypt focusing on the importance of getting the pro-Palestinian Morsi out of power instead of giving caution to the fact that it was a dictatorship now. Their State Dept spokesman Jen Psaki even admitted it was against their own national interest to call it a coup. Why? Because if they did, by law they would have had to cut off military and economic aid. They didn’t. In fact immediately after the coup the US gave El-Sisi a supply of F16s.

@Diaspora’d: El-Sisi closer to Russia? Where are you pulling this out of? Even Fox News wouldn’t be daft enough to say that! That must be why he immediately followed Washington’s suggestion in closing the Gaza strip after he took power. Or why he backed Saudi Arabia in their bombings of Yemen. Or why he immediately established relations with Israel. List goes on and on. Quite obvious why Washington backed up the coup.

@Cormac Ó Braonáin: There is no evidence to show that the US precipitated a coup in Egypt in 2013 to oust president Morsi. The US was funding Egypt $1.3b during Morsi’s presidency. Why would they instigate a coup, dither about it and then finally pull military funding soon after?

Morsi was the first democratically elected leader in Egypt however his tenure was plagued by some catastrophic decisions, bad underlying economic conditions and a military that was waiting to stab him in the back. El-Sisi and the coup plotters and protests against Morsi were being supported with money from UAE. Little surprise that El-Sisi is supporting the Saudi/UAE aggression in Yemen.
El-Sisi with 60,000 political prisoners in Egyptian jails is as much a de-facto dictator as Assad. El-Sisi supports Assad