Pat C and Aidan agree to disagree - morning Toon

by Unamerican Chris Sat Mar 29, 2003 09:38

Could all of you more interested in squabbling over which irrelevant left wing fringe party is more irrelevant than the other either have a ceasefire while this war is ongoing and newswire space and editorial staff monitoring work load is on overload or go set up your own news serivce so the rest of us who have no interest in your petty bickering don't have to sift through your childish postings. Get a life.

by MOAB Sat Mar 29, 2003 14:11

Pat C was clearly seen by many witnesses holding a Sinn Fein placard as a participant with the Sinn Fein contingent at the protest on Day X at the US Embassy.

by imc-er Sat Mar 29, 2003 14:53

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by Precision Man Sat Mar 29, 2003 15:09

These are serious allegations to make about anyone. Also no evidence has been offered. Please stop abusing IMC resources.

by pat c Mon Mar 31, 2003 09:53

yeah i was holding a sf poster in the hope that i would be photoed & put on indy. i have to fulfil the worse nightmares of my fans. ;)

unfortunately, no photo:(

if anyone has it, please post.

as for other comment, i am not a member of any political party, but its interesting to see the touts are still active on indy.

by pat c Mon Mar 31, 2003 10:26

Somehow I thought this was the appropriate thread frothe following ;)

Celtic warriors 'were bisexual'
Jan Battles
Sunday Times

THEIR feats of heroism are legendary. Now the bisexual antics of
some of Ireland's greatest warriors will be uncovered in a new television
documentary.
The Land of Sex and Sinners will reveal that some ancient Celtic
warriors had sex with male comrades and sometimes engaged in threesomes.
Among those whose sexuality will be explored is Cu Chulainn, the mythical
hero of Ulster.

The series is being made by Tyrone Productions, the company
founded by Moya Doherty and John McColgan, the makers of Riverdance.

"A lot of warrior societies, including the Danes, would have
been partly bisexual," said Jimmy Duggan, the producer and director of the
series. "While they were off being warriors they lived in an all-male
environment."

Duggan has uncovered Roman historical accounts of such behaviour
among Celtic men. "There are hints that Cu Chulainn was bisexual," he said.
"There is one incident where he is in bed with a man."

The sexual practices of Queen Medbh of Connaught are also
examined. The legendary warrior immortalised in The Tain is portrayed as a
sexual predator.

"She encourages her warriors by offering them sexual favours,"
said Duggan. In an extract from The Tain, Queen Medbh says: "I have never
denied myself the man I took a fancy to and I never shall, whatever husband
I have now or may have hereafter."

The series, which will go into production next month, will also
contain evidence about the controversial feudal practice known as jus primae
noctis. This was an ancient privilege of the lord of the manor to share the
wedding bed with his peasants' brides. The feudal right was depicted in the
film Braveheart, even though there was no evidence that it actually
occurred. In the film, the English declare they will "breed out" the Scots
by introducing the ancient English custom, giving noblemen the right to
sleep with the bride on the night of a tenant's marriage.

Duggan says he has uncovered evidence while researching the
programme that the custom actually happened in Ireland.

"The landlord would have the first night with the bride of one
of his subjects. It seems this was happening up until the early part of the
20th century," said Duggan.

"We have evidence of such things being written into contracts.
It was part of the rights which came with the land when it was passed to the
owner. That lasted into living memory in the last century."

Duggan has interviewed a man who remembers it happening to
families in Galway. Another story he is investigating concerns a woman in
west Cork believed to have shot her husband, a landlord, when he reneged on
a promise to stop the practice.

"Ireland would have been one of the most uninhibited countries
in Europe before the church got a stranglehold on the country," said Duggan.
He has also found accounts of sexual rituals involving animals.

The Land of Sex and Sinners, a two-hour series, will "explore
the sexual culture of Ireland from pre-history to the present". The company
promised it would be "peppered with fascinating, unlikely and sometimes
shocking revelations from a land with a reputation for repression but a
millennia-long history of rampant permissiveness".

The series will also cover a collection of sexual artifacts and
erotic art from prehistoric and more recent times.

Broadcasters in several countries, including Australia, have
showed interest in buying the series. It will be shown in Irish on TG4, and
an English version is also being made.

by IMCer (Cabal) Mon Mar 31, 2003 10:48

Someone shpuld tell this to Michael O'Brien of the Socialist Party.

by Fat C Mon Mar 31, 2003 18:22

Pat you are a scumbag.

I saw you with my own eyes of you with a SF placard.

by pat c Mon Mar 31, 2003 18:48

I admitted I carried it. Did you not read my comments above?

I specifically carried it in the hope that it might appear on indy & annoy fuckwits like you.

Anyway, I have succeeded even with out a photo!

I'm happy and you are a tout!

Yadda! Yadda! Yadda! (To borrow a phrase from Aidan)

;) ;) ;)