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The Daily PollLENT BEGINS THIS week, but first we’ll have Pancake Tuesday.
For many it will mean the lead in to Easter. For others, it will be a chance to test their will and give something up for 40 (46, really) days.
Will you be one of them?
We’re asking: Are you giving something up for Lent?
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Giving up watching Liverpool
Leicester want it more in fairness.
And Arsenal… the thought of it makes me wince
If the journal hasn’t reported on the mother fighting for medicine for her sick child I will be giving up the journal for good and will switch to the lberal.the mother is yet again walking from cork to dublin because fg made an empty promise to help her child.you have till tomorrow.
@Bobby Phelan: The Liberal.ie just plagiarises websites like The Journal and is currently being sued by The Indo, they even modeled their website design on The Journal’s format, but failed.
@OpenBorders: yes but there still reporting real life story of a mothers struggle to get cbd thc for her daughter the journal is becoming increasingly selective of the storys they report.the journal didn’t report Jonathan sugarman story or didn’t bother to mention the award winning documentary the Atlantic why?
Bobby, every news organisation is always selective. They have had articles about cbd thc and The Atlantic, none about Sugarman though.
@Dave O Keeffe: I dont think they should be selective dave especially when its got to do with how this state is being run.how on earth are people supposed to vote properly if they dont get the correct news.the night in which the Atlantic was aired there was nothing the following day about how ff ruined and sold off our fish and gas assets.why?
@bobby. No offence to this woman but I think doctors should make decisions when it comes to medicine. I seriously doubt cannabis is the only medicine available to her sick child.
Bobby we get it you smoke weed you don’t need to comment about cbd and thc on every article
Bobby, perhaps because they covered The Atlantic months ago with an interview with the director and everything. Seems like your asking for a TV review. Also it wasn’t a secret that our waters were sold off. May have been news to you but still not news.
@prop joe: she has tried everything else prop.the evidence is abroad but the government is choosing to ignore it.If it was your kid prop would you do nothing.?
@Jlocoroco: I am for legalizing taxation and regulation of cannabis whats your point jlocoroco..
Interesting image chosen to accompany the article. Would the journal mock Ramadan in such a fashion I wonder?
They probably don’t want a Charlie Hebdo situation. Catholics tend not to do that kind of thing.
Bashing Catholicism is what the journal does best.
Is that like bashing the bishop?
Cigarettes…..I have a 2 and a half year head start, O and replying to the trolls on the Journal.
Jamie. . They would never be disrespectful like that .. they’d be too scared ..
Waaah! Poor alt-right snowflake.
In fairness…after all the Catholic Church has done to the country it deserves bashing. If you think this is the worst The Journal could have run with you obviously haven’t heard that, for example, the Pope has only this week reduced the penalties for pedophile priests including ones who’ve abused children here to “a lifetime of prayer”. It’s not Islam or any other religion that’s fuсked over this country… at least not yet.
**And absolutely no where in the actual article has that ridiculous tradition been mocked..
@Jamie Lyons:
Why, are there no gingers with glasses in Islam?
@filthy…both end up getting messy.
@Jamie Lyons: Raping Irish children and infants, incarcerating Irish women, child-trafficking Irish babies, kidnapping, slavery, censorship, butchering women pre-childbirth, ostracising generations of Irish people, homophobia, misogyny, sexism, beatings, all of these things perpetrated by the catholic church kind of leave a bad taste in Irish people’s mouths unsurprisingly.
And we have National Druid Genocide day coming up too where we celebrate the burning of the great druids of Ireland by Saint Patrick and his Roman Catholic armies.
Sounds like islam too Tariq. The similarity is uncanny.
Not in Ireland. You lose.
What do you mean you lose? What’s that about? You really are a sick individual tariq. Seriously, there are doctors out there that can help you.
Yeah but sure it’s a great religion behind it all…….
I’m giving up mustard beetroot and marshmallow sandwiches..I think I’ll be able for it
Gave up giving up anything for Lent a long time ago.
Vera Twomey is crossing the country to try implore our minister for health to allow her child access to life-saving medicinal cannabis. Excuse me if I couldn’t care about Lent
@Kevin Higgins: Wait a second the journal hasn’t even covered Vera Twomey’s march yet today!? How could you not cover such an important issue!?
Kevin. . She can’t get a neurosurgeon to sign off for her .. that’s the problem for her now ..
And meanwhile ava is back at 20 seizures a day. Long term this may cause permenant brain damage. Ava had a seizure a month when she was taking Charlotte’s web in Colorado. Give her the exemption to take charlottles as this is an emergency. No neurosurgeon needed.
Kevin, i know this is going to sound horrible but isn’t it important to find out why no neurosurgeon will recommend it for her? You’re now talking about taking a medical decision away from doctors. I’d like to know why these neurosurgeons have denied her medication. The poor girl needs help, this has been proven to work in her case.
Dave her doctor is the one who made the application to the HSE. Please educated yourself to the facts before saying something lime “taking a medical decision away from doctors”. When its her actual doctor fighting for access to medicinal cannabis also!/
Yes, giving up The Daily Edge
@Ed Kelly: The cancerous Daily Edge is a wannabe Buzzfeed, which is already cancer in itself.
Giving up cigs…wish me luck
The key to not smoking is not buying packets of cigarettes. It’s remarkably easy.
Then after that it’s about not replacing one bad habit with another, like murder for example
Yes Dave, because that’s the natural progression for a responsible adult.
Quitting cigarettes surely should be grounds for diminished responsibility
It probably is in this snowflake world we live in.
I’m giving up white truffles and reading religious articles on the Journal.
Giving up the journal app
Is Lent still a thing?
No, you’re dreaming, go back to bed.
Where’s the “Why would I give something up because a fairy tale book says to” option?
@Thommo’s Big Nose:
Sorry, the rules of the game are preordained.
The only thing I give up for Lent is Lent.
Giving up travelling on bus eirann as they will no longer run from clonmel , no bus no train but we have free travel.
JJ Kavanaghs still run from Clonmel.
giving up ‘pancakes’ for 364 days
Nothing…whats the Pope giving up?…Gold?! …or coverups maybe?
James, I’m not so sure about that. The tone of that article implies that the RC Church should ‘punish’ paedophile priests by defrocking, as if that would solve anything. In my opinion it’s most likely too simplistic to regard defrocking as ‘a punishment’. There was a time when even civil judges thought that a paedophile who got married and settled down was a reformed man who wouldn’t reoffend. Obviously that turned out not to be the case. Marrying just gave a paedophile access to children, either hers or his. So when I hear people calling for paedophile priests to be no longer priests, I think of 3 things. 1) As long as they’re priests, the church keeps tabs on them, by paying & housing them. 2) Celibacy means that they are not free to marry. By keeping them as priests, they cannot marry. 3) Also, the Vatican is a very old organisation which has been dealing with such men for centuries. They must always have known the consequences of lifting the celibacy rule.
Fiona, that’s nonsense, I’ll address points 1 to 3 together, “the church has been dealing with such men for centurie” no they’ve been covering up for centuries. Priests have more access to kids that will trust them than a random stranger. That is undeniable. This paedophile church must reform massively.
Clever
Fags, drink and rollerblading.
Giving something up for lent?
I have no time for this catholic guilt malarkey.
I stopped listening to men in frocks a long time ago.
We Buddhist have lent during the summer. But we’re only allowed give up bad habits.
Why are you commenting here then? Will you stop in the summer? I would, but it’s part of my community service.
Adrian, you do understand that you don’t really exist don’t you.
Indeed, so. Non self is an important part of Buddhism.
@Adrian Matthews: Lent is also about taking on good habits as well?
I’m giving up the oul rollerblading myself!!!
Same thing I give up every lent, religion
Yes Polls
@Stephen East: The lapdancers will be confused then lol.
Isn’t it called Shrove Tuesday?
No F off!
I will be giving up the journal.ie if they block comments AFTER a courtcase OVER. They done this a few times recently. Same applies if the block overseas courtcases which Irish comments won’t prejudice. Anyone remember a certain case last August in Brazil for example&countless others where they block comments for certain individuals who seem to command undue respect from lrish media. The journal.ie don’t block comments when it comes to lower class individuals whether they Irish or overseas like cases in USA recently. They fear the sueing class very easily.
Sex, apparently
Trump
No, because I’m not a loser.
I’m giving up giving up for Lent as there’s nothing left to give up.
I voted yes only because I get so annoyed devastated and pissed off with our government, its policies and its collaborators FF. I also get mightily pissed off with our judges who seem to think we should applaud them for looking out for the ones who cause victims almighty pain. Then I say rock up Mary for whatever they decide to slap you with next.
Giving up emailing TDs. They have contempt in person as if anyone properly reads the emails
I find using their email addresses on MailBait quite cathartic… Like a mini DDOS on their email inbox…
@Seán Domhnall O’Sullivan: Visiting in person or calling the office makes a bigger difference.
Yup, emails can be ignored, a ringing phone is far more intrusive
If something is worth doing, it’s worth doing right away.
Except I might give up pancakes.
@Pharmyco: I am doing it at lent because the “New Year, New Me” crowd packed up the pool until around now. Ill be aiming to swim a mile for my Lent goal.
46 days but you only do for the 40 as you can do it on the sundays (apparently)
The journal
cutting down on Alcohol
have your say