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A PHARMACIST IS being praised for saving a teenager who went into anaphylactic shock on Dublin’s O’Connell Street after eating a peanut brownie by accident.
The 17-year-old teenager’s mother came into Hickey’s Pharmacy at around 9pm on Saturday night and said her son was suffering from an allergic reaction.
The young man waited outside, as he was having trouble breathing and said he wanted fresh air. The mother and her son were American tourists.
A pharmacist brought him inside, gave him an adrenaline injection, and then called the paramedics.
A witness said that the young man had “an extremely swollen neck”, was pulling at his neck and kept saying “please don’t let me die”.
The pharmacist gave the man another adrenaline injection seven minutes later and “he started to get better”.
The paramedics arrived soon afterwards, by this time the teenager’s condition had improved.
The ambulance crew took him into the back of the ambulance and monitored his condition for a few minutes and gave him oxygen, but he didn’t go to hospital.
During the incident, which lasted for 15-20 minutes, the pharmacy was closed to customers.
A witness praised the young pharmacist for her quick response to the serious incident, saying that “most people panic and do nothing out of shock, but they’re obviously trained to act quickly”.
Speaking to TheJournal.ie, head pharmacist at Hickeys Pharmacy Group Tom Concannon said that the pharmacist had just completed her training last year.
“Pharmacists are all trained for that, and other staff are also trained – not to administer drugs – but to react by closing the store to make sure the scene was safe.”
He explained that three shots of adrenaline are usually the maximum needed in cases like these, which he said are rare, but very serious.
Anaphylactic shock is really dangerous, if he hadn’t gotten to a pharmacy or a dose of adrenalin, there’s a good change he would have died – it is life threatening.
He said that this is the eighth time an incident like this has happened in its pharmacies – so it’s still a very rare occurrence.
We’re happy when things go smoothly, of course. Pharmacists are trained for those situations – but pharmacists ultimately don’t get called into those situations every day. It was after 9pm on a Saturday.
It’s a big thing… you still have to react quickly, and [the pharmacist in this case] did very well.
He said that the woman and her son were very grateful for their help; a paramedic came into the store to say everything was fine and the teenager would be ok.
Concannon said that it was important for anyone who has a known allergy to have epipens on them at all times.
Remember in this case, the shock happened at 9pm at night, we would have been one of the only pharmacies open at that time.
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Now if he heads to the North…… I’ll turn up then with some popcorn.
This makes me laugh. It’s been almost 40 years since the last visit and we are what a 2 hour flight away from his gaffe? “Careful consideration” about making an effort the year after next. You’d swear he was being asked to make the poxy journey on foot. What’s the bets that he won’t bother his bollix in the end.
Same as the muslim religion to thier own people… all religion is toxic, i could careless about the pope coming i just hope all religion will die out
@Tariq ibn Ziyad: Lets not forget the Crusader’s were Romes attempt to rule from Jerusalem before the natives decided to kick them out. Little has changed in the middle east it seems…
You’re right Tariq. Why stop there though, let’s not allow any religion to have a place in education or public society. After all it is just daft, moronic stories like blokes going to paradise on winged horses, parting seas and all that.. It is a shame that in this day and age anyone believes this nonsense and lives their lives abiding by this nonsense, even give their lives for this nonsense, kills animals in an inhumane, barbaric way because of this nonsense, even take other people’s loves for not believing in this nonsense. Remarkable.
If people are still silly enough to believe this sort of rubbish then let them be. Whatever makes them happy. But they cant turn their cheek from what that religion did to this country and the people of this country.
Take a look around and see what religion is doing all around the world. You might then see why people like me have no time for these moronic cults.
He is an anti-Pope, he spouts nothing but communist Marxist drivel.
@Tariq ibn Ziyad: the pope is most welcome to Ireland,you with your false propaganda.The Catholic Church insured their was a proper education system set up for Catholics,in this country,they opened hospitals and cared for both the old and young
⬆️⬆️⬆️ Particularly the young.
They gave them very special care and attention.
@Tariq ibn Ziyad: … what a disgraceful comments from you about the pope and the same breath you defend and justify islam treatment of Women /Gays / chistians / buddists / Hindus / Sikhism / Bahi /jews / hard left socialists / ….most all the slaughtering the mudering of yazidism men and raping and mudering of it children and young and old women and selling into SEX Slaves. …..
“Well now, is ‘e comin ti the Narth” “Ach, ní cyap ‘im”
Relax guys,I’m an atheist.
@ Martin wards “The Catholic Church insured there was a proper education system”. Telling people what to think instead of how to think is not education.
Why have you an Islamic picture on your profile then
The was to control the plebs.
@Martin Warde Tuam: A “proper” education system that beat,molested and murdered children by the thousand. They “cared” for both the young and old by taking every penny they ever had.
@iMoan Brutal:” Tell us about all those children that were murdered by the Catholic Church in their thousands
@ Tariq.Thank God for that!
@Vlad,I just like the colour,you’ll come across things on the Internet from time to time that don’t make 100% sense.
@Billy,word brother.
@Tariq ibn Ziyad: If your atheist then I’m God.
@Tariq ibn Ziyad: would you ever cop on, you are a toxic fool and by all accounts don’t even live in Ireland so stay out of our business and promote your vile ways elsewhere.
@Martin Warde Tuam: and the sharia lovers saw that it was good and came here to milk the very same system.
@iMoan Brutal: Where is the evidence that these babies were murdered. and you using an English newspaper as a reference is laughable considering that the Brits starved over 1 Million Catholic Irish people between 1845 and 1848
http://www.skibbereen.ie/the-great-famine/
http://www.irishtimes.com/news/cross-marks-the-graveyard-of-famine-victims-1.80552
Maybe you will start blaming the Brit for what is real murder
What’s your point Con? Do you honestly think that our education system is fine with a bunch of idiots believing that they are a link to a made up god having input into said system. Give me a break, this method just gives credibility to the nonsense that they spew out and infect our children with. Can you imagine how good the education system would be if we didn’t waste our kids time with this nonsense, maybe teach them something useful like maths, physics, business.
While the Catholic clergy didn’t starve did they, quite a few of my family back then unwittingly had to go to the states to start a new life.
@Con O Sullivan: Just search for the story in any Irish newspapers.. youll find the same story.
What has the famine got to do with anything?? The church in Rome could have fed all the starving Irish people 1000 times over with the wealth they had at the time. Why didn’t they?
Con perpetuating the great British oppression of Ireland myth. Its hypocrisy on steroids when people of his ilk constantly whinge about Britain and denigrate the UK head of state as the focus for their bigotry, yet willingly accept all the real oppression and conflict that came from devotion to their faith & individual and the States subservience to a foreign head of state in Rome.
@Bernard: Why are taxpayers, still allowing religion to be taught in a Republic’s education system and we do nothing about it?
@Jho Harris: Vile ways, are you comparing him to Christianity and the RCC?
@Stephen Murphy exactly. The teaching of religion isnt a bad thing in itself (if a broad overview of the worlds faiths) – but full scale indoctrination (brainwashing) definitely is. The Church (aided by the State) has succeeded in brainwashing generations of Irish. A Nationalist agenda curriculum, teach to the test method (instead of teaching to critically think) coupled with the Catholic dogma that Irish suffering (the most oppressed people on Earth!) is somehow necessary purgatory & Britain/Protestantism is the bogeyman has kept people in line for generations.
@iMoan Brutal: It was the Brits that starved them to death
@Bernard: I must have upset you and you British allegiance. It was the British gave us Cromwell, The redcoats, The Great Famine , The Black and Tans and The Parachute Regiment
Con, who cares? If it wasnt for that, youd have nothing to whinge about. The “Irish” (no offence to anyone else with more than 2 brain cells) like to think of themselves as so unique, so different from everyone else in the British Isles, or “these islands” that they exist in some bubble in space/time – completely outside the history that binds said islands together. “The British” – Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Gaels, Picts, invader/settler Romans, Vikings, Normans – more invasion, rebellion than Eire – are somehow collectively homogeneous in the eyes of the Irish Nationalist and somehow guilty of disproportionate “oppression”. Cromwell? Did similar in England. Redcoats? Irish enlisted. Famine? In Dickensian era pre social welfare – not responsible Black & Tans? So what – direct response to terrorist activity. Paras? UK troops operating in the UK and actions equally condemned in the rest of the UK. The only difference between the Irish and the varied peoples of the UK are attitudes and 3/4 of a mile of sea.
@Con O Sullivan: Answer the question Con, or troll on..
@Paddy Byrne: As long as they don’t finance the bigotry and propaganda. It is only the social work of the Church that should be financed when there is no alternative
@Martin Warde Tuam: Which it would not have done except to indoctrinate
A1 Sharon!
@Mr Jenkins: Religion means to relink. Some are born with memoria futurii means past memories which appear in their future others are born tabula rasa no memories whatsoever so probably don’t need it?
I’ve better things to do than listen to some celibate guy in a funny hat waffle on about his imaginary mate
Says you with the picture of a cartoon.
Well said Harry.
Zing!! Wow Dan you got me don’t know how I’ll ever recover from that devastating burn!
Poor old Harry, I bet you thought The Simpson’s was a documentary. You must be gutted.
Nah Paulie I know it’s a cartoon but I don’t know why your lot can’t see you’re following a 2000 year old book of fairytales though
Would you rather they where forced to follow 1600 year old book to the letter
Both equally as daft, both equally as dangerous at certain points of time, the 1600 year old book of drivel is now the most dangerous book in the world.
That was Sarcasm Harry
My bad Paulie I’ve never been a good judge of sarcasm online
@Harry: The book is actually older, read it sometime
@#IRExit nah I’m no longer a child so fairytales don’t entertain me anymore
OMG someone get the first aid kit we have 1st degree burns here …. (Sarcasm) #worstcommentever
Absolutely will go to see him.
He is a good man trying to make the world a better place.
He is very welcome here.
@Tom Burke: It is us, that needs to do this and don’t be a sheep to the shepherd. Pull up your socks, practice what you preach and think for yourself!
Amen to that Stephen!
Tom – Go forth and think for yourself.
But first, abandon any impure thoughts that you may have already had about this decision for they have lead you astray – listen to the one true word.
This is the word of the loud.
Gather Stephen, let us Pronounce Reality And Yearn for his enlightenment.
All together…
We are the new way the new truth and the new light. Anyone who achieves happiness in this one true version of cosmic reality shall do so only by emulating our clinical, logical ways based on the accumulated scientific knowledge of our world – the centre of the thinking universe.
No free-thinking individual shall be allowed to put strange gods before the god of righteous indignation and enlightened logic – for this is the new word of the loud.
Amen.
(Ps I didn’t go the last time because, as a teen, I was not the type who was easily lead and as I haven’t changed that much, I won’t be considering going this time either)
Guess what lads?
I very much think for myself.
Never confuse intelligence with wisdom.
@Tom Burke: Yet you are the one confused, some day you’ll wise up and do the intelligent thing.
@Nydon: Sounds complicated nylon. Half hour of a Sunday meat and two veg salvation assured,why make work for yourself?
Seems a decent kind of guy but I’ve stopped buying into the nonsense he’s selling quite some time ago.
@Reg: Yet you still believe all the nonsense coming from fg .
Unless hes coming with an apology for the beasts who work for his supetstitious cult, for all wrongs inflicted on Irish victms of the clergy.
Well said that’s for sure.
An apology and financial compensation for the victims. Unfortunately though money is their real god so it will never happen.
Does it make the pain and memories go away if they are awarded money?
@chris w hopper: Yes I never heard the members of you atheist cult apologising for their atrocities to the families of the religious believers they murdered in The Soviet Union , China and North Korea.
@Con O Sullivan: You forgot atheist brethren?
@Con O Sullivan: Are you the official Irish papal troll? Has Jebus sent you in person? Do you take turns with other papal trolls? Is there a papal troll mass online? Genuine questions.
I wouldn’t pull back the curtains if was passing down my road
Unless he’s coming to tell us that the church has decided to pull out of Ireland in regards to law, no.
Non baptised kids should be able to get into school!
Let’s face it baptism is only a criteria for keeping numbers down in over subscribed school. The real problem is lack of school in the right locations. If baptism wasn’t a option for over crowded schools some other criteria would have to be used.
Bull, holy water criteria should be banned
Yawn…change the record there Adam. The majority of schools accept children of all or no religious faiths. Another typical lazy comment from lefties like yourself. Use yer energies to open new schools or to get extensions built to allow schools accept all children in their catchment area
Why do people like you Vincent continue to make uninformed stupid generalisations about school enrolment? There are 3,300 primary schools in Ireland…how many have refused enrolment based on religious faith?
Even if one school has done it Gary, it’s one too many.
@Adam Laycock: They want to control how we die next, spreading our ashes and they’ll demand a baptism cert before allowing you to do it after a nice charge is imposed.
Stephen nobody is forcing you to do anything you don’t want regarding the Catholic Church. When you die you can have your ashes spread wherever you like…it might take a while to cremate that chip on your shoulder though!!
Nope it’s not. Quite simply the church has run the education system in the country for decades by providing members to the boards of management. The state abdicated responsibility. If the state wishes to take over the running of the schools they need a proper management system in place to do this and not the VEC structure they proposed where some gombeen local politician will end up as chairperson of the board
What’s the difference between a gombeen politician and a gombeen that thinks he’s a link to an imaginary friend that doesn’t exist? Both have no place in the education system.
The church hijacked the state school system so it could provide jobs for its footsoldiers, grab funds and control the population. Nothing altruistic about them, no money came from Rome.
Grab funds??? What are you raving about you muppet? Every board of management in the country has to raise funds to run their schools. Instead of insulting them with disgraceful slurs you should be grateful for all the voluntary work they do making up for the states lack of investment in education
And who do you propose run the schools so Genius??? Somebody has to. Most schools struggle to fill places on the board of management
@Gary Smith: Better than a biggoted member of the clergy hiring teachers based on their religious denomination rather than on teaching qualifications.
Chris there are very open and transparent interview processes in schools these days. All candidates can ask for their marks and appeal.the results if they wish. I have sat on nearly 100 interview boards in the last 10 years and in NONE of them did we ask the candidates about their religious beliefs. Whatever went on in the country decades ago is no excuse for you to throw dirt at those working in the system today just because you’ve a chip on your shoulder
@Gary Smith: You know what Gary, I have no time for the church – any church. But you talk some sense – too often its too easy to bash the church as “god knows” they need a good bashing but your right, people were only too happy to let them raise our kids … and in many a country including Australia where I am now they are still more than happy to send their kids to catholic schools as they are perceived to be the best. People really are hypocrites.
Most schools struggle to fill boards or management…do you reckon that this could be because people don’t want to share a podium with numpties with silly stories that they pass off as fact. I know I wouldn’t because having these numpties on any board that promotes education is both a contradiction and gives these numpties and their religious bile credibility.
If these muppets were not allowed then maybe our boards of management might become a desirable place to be rather than just the joke that they are now.
How are they are joke?? Running schools thst provide excellent standards of education in schools that are among the worst funded in Europe and with the largest class sizes. Take your anti church ravings some where else
Imagine how much better they would be if they didn’t dedicate time to teaching kids there’s a make believe man in the sky that follows them everywhere and sees everything they do and if they don’t follow him they’ll go to hell. That’s raving lunacy. That’s creepy and should not be taught to children. Then again priests have a bit of a reputation for watching children though don’t they.
@Gary Smith: Why would you ever need to ask a candidate their religious denomination when one look at their cv will tell you what schools they attended. A few years where I live a priest was sued for this kind of bigotry, hiring a teacher then telling them that they were not qualified because they couldn’t teach catecism etc.
Pablo you’re 100% correct. The Catholic Church committed many horrendous crimes against children in this country but the state or many on the loony left still haven’t come up with a credible alternative for school management
@Gary Smith: By asuming that I have a chip on my shoulder you are leaving yourself open to religious bigotry. I to have spent a number of years on school boards of management and I know what goes on behind the scenes when it comes to appointing teachers.
@Gary Smith: Educate Together have a credible democratic alternative.
Chris you are showing your ignorance of the process whereby teachers are employed. The vast majority of schools now request that applicants use a standard application form instead of CV when applying for a job. This application form only asks for academic qualifications and not primary or secondary school education. You are quoting an individual case and using it to suggest the process in tainted across the country. This is a lazy vindictive accusation. You might be so kind as to provide us with more details on this case or perhaps a link to the judgement in question.
Well then Chris if you have any information on how teachers were appointed to their positions in the wrong I do hope you made this information known to the relevant authority at the time. Otherwise you have in fact broken the law and you are now also breaking the rules which govern how members of boards of management must keep information confidential. Most worrying of all you have cast a slur on the teachers who were appointed to positions in the school on which you served on the board of management. This is a reprehensible and disgusting move on your behalf just to try and give ammunition to your out dated and inaccurate comments
No they don’t. Educate together schools function perfectly well in large urban areas where there are enough parents etc willing to run the school by sitting on the BOM. This wouldn’t be practical in many small rural areas or indeed smaller provincial towns where many parents rejected divesting their school to educate together or indeed voted against having one opened in their town
@Chris Kirk: Could you provide some evidence for your assertions?
@Con O Sullivan: What evidence can you provide for all the religious hogwash you spout, Con?
@Fintan Oflaois: “To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.”St Thomas Aquinas
@Gary Smith: I know what I know about how teachers are appointed into national schools from my own experiences on a board of management. It isn’t as you suggest a ‘standard application’, there are a lot of underhand background checks into how teachers conducted themselves at previous schools. I know this for a fact. Why would I give you details of any particular case, if you have served on boards of management you should know better than to ask questions like that
How many parents have taken their children out ot RCC schools and moved to ET ?
“The best cure for Christianity, is to read the bible” Mark Twain
Some reading for Gary Smith on how the church hijacked out education & health systems. http://www.irishtimes.com/news/lessons-in-the-power-of-the-church-1.778683
Why has it taken over 37 years for another visit to Ireland by a Pope. Has Rome any clue or even care what has been going on in Ireland and with “its flock” since 1979. Ireland has traditionally been held up as a beacon for the Catholic faith and has spent 100′s of years spreading the Christian Faith and Catholicism at home and around the world. In our greatest time of crisis and loss of faith, where has the church leadership been. 37 years is a life time and almost 2 generations and I’m afraid it may be too little, too late. There are too may young people have grown up since then and see no relevance to the church and faith in their lives. The feedback from Rome is that they are giving it ‘careful consideration ‘. What kind of nonsense reply is that. While I have huge respect for Pope Francis, he shouldn’t need an invitation. We needed that help/visit years ago and I think it’s too late. Well it certainly is for me.
“Careful consideration” sounds like he’ll only bother if he doesn’t get a better offer.
@Aidan O’Leary: I understand why you might view a drop off in belief as a crisis, but if it is it is a crisis for the church not the country. I would not view it as a negative it is simply a natural evolution for a country with a high level of education (no matter how prejudiced to religion) and modern communication services.
People do not need rescuing from a lack of religious belief, it is not a negative.
Seriously who cares except crumblies…
@Aidan O’Leary: Thirty seven years is not long in the scheme of things when you consider that the Christian faith has been around for about two thousand years. The first time that the head of the Roman Catholic church had ever been to Ireland in 1979 and left a lasting impression. The fact that the Catholic church has fallen from grace through its own bad behaviour, it is now time to try and bring closure to past mistakes and move on. Personally I won’t be going to see the pope because I have little interest in being fooled a second time.
The Facebook MASS event this week has showed what a lot of mainly under 40 year old Irish people think of the Church and religion
@Pauliebhoy: So now the comments of the atheist anti Catholic bigots for the majority of Irish people under 40.?.
Seriously most of those plebs on Facebook haven’t been to mass, nor do they practice.
Con, you’ve been conned. Its not too late pal.
@oldschoolcelt: I am quite happy as I am. and i am not conned
You believe in the supernatural and indeed the impossible. You may be happy but comforting lies are still lies
@oldschoolcelt: I am quite happy with my belief. As least everyone can believe in God in this country if they wish not like countries run by your atheist brethren like China and The Soviet Union, where religious believers were persecuted and murdered
@Con O Sullivan: Has it never occurred to you that the papacy with its political networking and which ruled the papal states invited all that persecution? Would u want say a Muslim denomination that gives allegiance to a religious caliph somewhere who is a head of state to thrive in Ireland? You would see treason as waiting to happen.
He might have a word in the Healy Ray’s ear. Talk some sense into him about climate change
Damn, August 2018 you say? I’m fully booked that month I’m afraid
Same here. Spending that whole month not believing in fairytales with talking snakes and donkeys.
The lady doth protest too much JJ
No, I don’t practice religion.
They’ve practicing it for 6000 years and it’s shite. Practice makes perfect my ass.
@JJ O Riordan: They don’t practice what they preach, there’s the problem and talk out both sides of their mouth.
You’re grand thanks.
Unless he’s coming with a cheque for the billion euros abuse compensation that was foisted on the taxpayer under the unjust Woods Deal.
I’d rather try and teach enda Kenny to count to ten without help from his advisors than go watch that shit
10 Tom? Really? That’ll be a long, long weekend.
Lads there’s enough articles on here about politics without yee turning this into one.yee need to get out more
@Alan b..: When the Church stops being political, we become a Real Republic and then we can keep politics out of it.
It’s Sunday morning chill out man
A stunt by the religious right FG to try bring him in 2018. If a referendum on repeal the 8th is called for it will be in 2018. Thus head cheerleader el papa here to tell us we all sin
If I do, I’ll bring a placard saying ‘ Did you compensate your victims yet’.
Don’t forget the question mark. You don’t want to look uneducated.
@Stephen murphy: Life gives you lemons .. but why is it that compensation makes it all better? Did people in Ireland not have their own brains because listening to the stories of how the church ruled the country its clear they didn’t. Cant pass the buck everytime.
Let’s be honest, the pope believes that jesus is a biscuit and that worshiping a dead guy on a stick is perfectly normal. I don’t think anybody is going to look uneducated in comparison.
No, I’ll be washing my hair!
All depends where he goes to.. I’ll be looking for him to come down my way because I wouldn’t go too far out of my way to see him..
Not a chance have better things to be doing no with myself
Perhaps our ‘crisis of faith’ is actually quite positive. Being a young catholic today is difficult and an unpopular belief but it means that those practising are doing so by personal choice. The next generation church will be truly alive with genuine loving Catholics living the faith as it should be.
I would be happy to welcome the Pope but I would also welcome an apology on behalf of the Vatican.
@Rachel: true Rachel. The young new upcoming catholic church is alive and growing. We as young catholics can see the faults of the old church. Instilling fear of god instead of teaching his love and Compassion. But thankfully it’s changing and I’m so happy to be part of it. I’d be list without my faith.
Janey you do realise its referred to as ‘faith’ because its not fact and indeed is utter drivel, right? Stupid ideas existing in peoples minds only, the exact details depending on quirks of geography. Naive bs.
@janey mackle: Young catholics of every generation have seen the faults of the old church. It will only change as people walk away from the old church and revive their belief in God under a different script.
Seriously ? They are still the same church of 100 yrs ago, nothing to going to change.
@Rachel: The Bible hasn’t changed, so what will change and it is a book written by ignorant men!
@janey mackle: Jesus alleged that he and God gave Moses the savage commandments of the Old Testament. I’m sure faith meant a lot to the women who were stoned to death in those days as a result of the rules
We get the Repeal the 8th vote first.
It should boost his Pope-ularity.
@Denis Lucey:Hoiws that good? Deviants of children Progress’s to killers of children …cop on!
No – because I don’t support paedophilia, misogyny, or bigotry.
@Congress Tart: sounds very like a somewhat bigotry comment to me, I wont be going simply because I dont want to, I thing religeon is a private matter between yourself and whatever higher being you wish to share your inner thoughts with….
@Peter donnelly: it’s not private if it’s in our schools and our tax money pays for these visits.
And are you really pulling the “being intolerant of bigots makes you intolerant” angle? Really?
@Congress Tart: Thats strange for your Atheist brethren in The Soviet Union, China and North Korea Committed and are still committing paedophilia, misogyny, or bigotry. and we can add the mass murder of millions of religious people to that. I think you are a hypocrite. You mention misogyny perhaps you can explain if the rape of 200,000 women by your atheist brethren in Germany in 1945 is not misogoyny,?
@Congress Tart: But your OK with the penal laws and attack the only institution that gave us a break during the Irish pogroms educating us to give us a fighting chance which ironically proved successful. As for the deviants mentioned in your comment infiltrators and saboteurs have alwaysbeen a problem with revolution ever considered that ?They would ber excommunicated at the very second of such deviance found out or not and enjoined the ranks of the other hordes of hell which this church has built itself in the gates of.
I remember the last time a Pope came to Ireland. We saw him in Drogheda beggibg the IRA to cease their violence, and again in Galway telling the young people of Ireland that he loves them.
I wonder what message the Pope has this time, perhaps he will tell his church followers not to be greedy and instead be more compasionate towards unbelievers and people of other faiths.
In other words, more fairy tales!
@Daisy Chainsaw: Certainly won’t be canvassing foir penal laws like some on here..should read their history.
Who gives a flying fk about that filthy paedophile protector.
This is the typical article to generate anti-Catholic sentiment and hatred the editor has as her agenda.
Huge crowds will turn out to see the pope – fact.
Not for me, lost my imaginary friend when i was 5, but enjoy if its your thing.
Looking forward to his visit
Our ‘crisis of faith’ is quite a positive thing. Being a young catholic today is difficult and an unpopular belief but it means that those practising are doing so by personal choice. The next generation church will be truly alive with genuine loving Catholics living the faith as it should be.
I would be delighted to welcome the Pope but I would also welcome an apology on behalf of the vatican.
If it was Bill Murray, yes. The Pope, nope.
the papal nuncio is not an “excellency” hes a fallible man just like fallible pope he means nothing to us irish anymore anyone who goes to see this papal parade is a hypocrit and endorsing a regime of elite corruption why should we celebrate anything with papal parade who cares !
I suppose if you’ve seen one pope, you’ve seen them all.
I was within arm’s reach of one, the Polish fellow JPII, in Turku Cathedral in June 1989. I was there as an invited guest of the Lutheran Church and thought the poor old Popey looked very tired and could do with a bit of a holiday. Understandably, since it was only a day after news of the Tienanmen Square massacre had reached us.
I might go and see Frankie if both of us are still alive in two years’ time and he comes to somewhere close, like Portlaoise or Tullamore, but it would be more to study the phenomenon of groupieism than to take much notice of whatever platitudes and self-evident selective truths he shares with the starstruck multitude.
@Con O Sullivan: Would you have found it less objectionable if it had been committed by religiously-motivated people?
You have atheists on the brain, Con, you poor klutz, because my take on the Tiananmen massacres was that it was carried out by a regime that does not tolerate criticism of any kind. Rather like a lot of religious ones.
@Fintan Oflaois: Con doesn’t let facts get in the way of his drivel :)
Que the religeon haters, they are guaranteed to religeously pop up here whenever there is a story about the RC church, they must have very boring lives if that is all they can find to complain about….
@Peter donnelly: They must be the offspring of the Penal law supporters.
Those of you who don’t practice catholicism don’t need to worry about the Pope. Many many irish people would love to see him in Ireland. The church did alot of damage and many catholics too were hurt as a result. But the faith in God through catholicism is a personal experience and unless you’ve experienced the love of god then you couldn’t understand why people practice faith. It would be nice in today’s very “tolerant” society that all people are respected despite their beliefs.
Bound to be some nut job atheist group protesting about the visit.
We all know the type.
Grudge against humanity.
@Daniel Fontaine: The nut job atheist group were not around protesting when Prime Minister Li of of China visited Ireland last year. Everyone knows that China has an appalling record of human rights but since Li is one of their atheist brethren they were out with their red flags to welcome their hero.
Bunch of hypocrites Con.
@Daniel Fontaine: The brethren seem to be disappearing again. Maybe “Atheist Ireland” are having their monthly “atheist in the pub” meeting tonight.
@janey mackle: I agree.Catholicism makes us believe we are holy and the republic makes us holy and free…therefore wholly free. Did you know it was an Irish Catholic named General Stephen Moylan whom first named the Americas the United States of America? He had to be educated in France as the Penal laws forbade the education of Catholics. Ironic he should lead the charge to defeat the instigators of those Irish pogroms and rid the free world of them.
YES.
Definitely.
***ATHEIST FREE DAY***
Have a read below how Gareth O Callaghan has uncovered paedophiles at the highest levels in the Irish franchise of the Catholic Church https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=698553233625809&id=305722736242196
Thou shall not whorship false idols ..
I think that a representative of the foreign companies who have set up here should attend- maybe the PayPal Nuncio?
I wouldn’t go to the bottom of my road to see him BUT I accept that there are those that would so I accept that he should be invited and even welcomed by those people even when I personally dislike the idea.
Bring it on. Huge protests will put him in his place
ye cant fool us irish !
@Patrick Healy: FG/FF/L/SF, are doing it daily.
@Stephen murphy: yes you are right Stephen and we should be very worried when government in Ireland are now changing their stance on how they view Vatican and welcome him here to Ireland .That should send alarm bells to everyone here in Ireland something has changed when a corrupt government like what we have in Ireland welcomes a pope .It means pope is corrupt too stands to reason eh ? when every other pope in last 30 years has been given the two fingers from progressive irish governments not long ago kenny had got rid of papal nuncio .People need to ask why they are calling “excellency” maybe be cause they are all eating from same plate of corrupt shit !!!
@Patrick Healy: For Enda Kenny to be welcoming the Pope to Ireland is like Boris Johnson trying to reinstate the Royal Yacht Britannia. Both men are living on past glories and wishing for public recognition and a saintly/royal knighthood.
Have a referendum to ban the teaching of all religions in schools. Then every school will have the opportunity of becoming an ‘Educate Together’ School
Tell me something Andi.
For how long have you embraced democratic principles like tolerance?
@Tom Burke: I hope the irony isnt lost on you there Tom
Leftist pro islamification nut job he’s not welcome here. The left bring in these head hackers for votes the Pope wants them hoping to convert them.
@Alex Jones: The left, for the most part do not practice any form of religion.
@Alex Jones: I thought the left, were mostly Atheist and open minded about life?
@Stephen murphy:”I thought the left, were mostly Atheist and open minded about life?” I do not think the residents of North Korea and China bot run by atheists would agree about atheists being open minded about life
@Con O Sullivan: Change the record, Con. It’s nearly as cracked as yourself.
Criticism of the odious cult that you so blindly and always defend, and the many sickening crimes of which are only too well documented, does not constitute hatred of Catholics – most of whom IMHO deserve pity rather than hatred for continuing to be taken in by such hogwash – and is likewise neither a defence or an endorsement of other kinds of totalitarianism.
@Fintan Oflaois: Maybe you should look at the activities of you atheist brethren in the countries they run in China and North before you bash Catholics. I do not think the people like Father Peter McVerry, Sister Stan, The people of St Vincent The Paul who through the generosity of Catholic congregation feed the the hungry are odious. Your atheist brethren have committed odious crimes that are well documented or will you blame Catholics for Stalin , Mao or Lenin
I will make myself available for him to come and see me. MK.
It’s great to see the poll results like this. I’d bet it would look exactly opposite 20 years ago. Hopefully people are finally ralising that having faith has nothing to do with religion…definitely not like any of these clowns in shiny hats wants us to believe…
Religion. Fkin idiots wasting there lives.
#nobbyforpope
Perhaps our ‘crisis of faith’ is actually quite positive. Being a young catholic today is difficult and an unpopular belief but it means that those practising are doing so by personal choice. The next generation church will be truly alive with genuine loving Catholics living the faith as it should be.
I would be happy to welcome the Pope but I would also welcome an apology on behalf of the Vatican.
I dig this guy Pope but I only go to so many concerts a year and I’m not sure about this guy, but hey, who knows.
Wont go but no real objection to him coming.
It’s worth pointing out that you can go and see him without believing in what he’s peddling. He’s arguably the world’s most famous man – it’s like going to see a famous painting.
@James Xenophon: would you go to see Jimmy Savile too?
If he was preaching in my back yard, I’d shut the curtains
I dig this guy Pope but I only get to so many concerts each year, but hey, it’s 2018 who knows?
Who is picking up the bill
,those that issue the invite should !!!!!
Love thy neighbour, as you would wish to be love, this is the forgotten rule of all religious groups, is this Pope a leader of men??? Or the head of a religion, which is his main function, if he is a leader I for one will be interested in what he has to say
Yes I’ll go, to protest against him and the evil institution he leads
It’s a bit like asking what type of std would you like to have.
W anker
He lives in a ‘ Palace ‘, what’s he got in Common with us.!!!
I am an atheist, thank god
A leader who lives in a ‘ Palace ‘ and resides in a ‘ Castle ‘ for summer breaks, and Flys around in Jets, is no Example .!!!
Any one else have problems replying to posts
@Alex Jones: The pope, had a word with God and you’re busted mate. 10 hail Mary’s, 15 Our fathers and kneel on a bed of nails for forgiveness!
Few naggins be grand..but its not no its never.
I hope everyone had a very Happy Diwali.
I’d say there’ll be a great turnout with people of all ages and creeds. Look at the people that came out in their thousands to greet Pope Benedict when he visited the UK. Religion is far from dead in Ireland. I think all the anti-Catholic rhetoric will actually backfire and it’ll be a great occasion for Ireland coinciding with the World Meeting of Families. Not too bad for tourism either! I’m looking forward to it.
I like this one so I probably would, wasn’t too gone on the look of the previous guy.
Why do you even feel the need to publish this? You know the majority will vote no. I am not religious but it gets tedious seeing your posts about religion over and over again. Get over it journal just get over it
Only if He accepts the crown and throne in Dublin castle as His toilet.
Will youse imbecilic ignoramously famous for knocking truths that stare in all our faces please wake up to other discussions beyond the narrow eyesights of journo people or their views… here’s one that I came across… Yez might need to check with yer mammies, daddies, aunties, uncles, cousins, friends and others on what they say about the power of scapulas in this day and age… Have you or your family members have a scapula or two around yer necks?
If you don’t, you’re DOOMED…
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