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Updated at 10.34pm
MINISTER FOR JOBS Richard Bruton did a short canvass around Dublin city centre this afternoon meeting mixed reaction from potential voters.
The Fine Gael director of elections was distributing the party’s latest booklets outlining the reasons for and the benefits of abolishing the upper house.
He was accompanied by a number of councillors and potential local election candidates.
Among them were former Dublin Lord Mayor Gerry Breen – a two-time Seanad candidate himself – and councillor Neale Richmond, also a Seanad hopeful in 2011 who campaigned on getting rid of the upper house.
Things got off to a good start on Hibernian Way just off Dawson Street as Bruton found at least one supporter, though he did want something in return:
Down Grafton Street, the Minister was accosted by a man who appeared to be looking for some money.
“Catch you later,” Bruton told the man, who was less than pleased:
A woman selling flowers just off Grafton Street admitted she did not know much about the forthcoming referendum but promised to read the shiny new booklet:
Then Bruton bumped into his Cabinet colleague Leo Varadkar for a bit of awkward banter:
This article was originally posted at 4.14pm
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“[The] sacrament is like the 3D glasses we watch movies with; love is not just between the couple themselves, but firmly united with God.”
What kind of weird, 3 way entanglement is this guy trying to badly explain?!?
Love it when celibate old men give advice on marriage.
@Stanley Marsh: you’re assuming that these old men are celibate or always have been. History suggests otherwise in many instances.
That they’re great for the action parts, but really you just wish you had gone to a 2D film on your own.
Next, they’ll need to involve Fortnite analogies in their sermons to reach out to the young generation. The old Jesus story is not selling so well anymore.
So a celibate old men “blesses” young couples in the presence of someone’s corpse with some bizarre incoherent ramblings about a god and 3D glasses. Why is this on the news? Sounds like this people need mental health professional help, not press.
3-D glasses?
One blue eye and one red?
Them 3-D glasses?
At the risk of publicly exposing an unrecognised personal obtuseness, I say: I don’t get it.
Hah?
Sometimes when the clergy get creative all they achieve is a demonstration of their crippled inner awkwardness and psychological unfitness to dictate rules of behaviour or to provide inexperienced advice to mass society.
Like the folk music cringefest introduced in the 1970s. Not a clue. So many of them are the last people to be counselling troubled souls.
This 3-D character might as well have compared marriage to a slinky, a Rubik’s cube, the four of spades, shoe polish, or windscreen wipers.
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