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Lolek Ltd, Trading as 'The Iona Institute'

lazygal · 2012-03-12 14:16:25

Does anyone know anything about this organisation? Where it is funded from and by whom? Who runs it? Why it gets such a platform? I've been digging around a bit but its very difficult to find out anything about it. I'm also mystified as to why David Quinn appears so often representing a relatively new body which seems to…

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#1292 01-01-2016 8:53pm
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#1293 01-01-2016 9:17pm
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Dricmeister wrote: »

Wow what?

Do you think that a "Queen of Ireland" broadcast by a HIV Positive transvestite is appropriate for 3pm on Christmas Day?

So you've decided to dodge the questions put to you and just lay on some hate for the craic.

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#1294 06-01-2016 8:17pm
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Dricmeister wrote: »

Wow what?

Do you think that a "Queen of Ireland" broadcast by a HIV Positive transvestite is appropriate for 3pm on Christmas Day?

Who watches tv at 3pm on Christmas day?

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#1295 06-01-2016 10:35pm
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looksee wrote: »

Who watches tv at 3pm on Christmas day?

Professional offence takers, it seems.

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#1296 07-01-2016 12:55pm
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Does David Quinn expect people to party on the streets over an abortion referendum? David, weddings are fun , abortion isn't.

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#1297 08-01-2016 10:45am
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Ash.J.Williams wrote: »

Does David Quinn expect people to party on the streets over an abortion referendum? David, weddings are fun , abortion isn't.

He and his like are paranoid as hell,
They fear progression and freedoms in Ireland

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fFFIBS8rwU

This video is from back in April 2015, even back then he's obsessed about abortion

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#1298 08-01-2016 1:03pm
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"My suggestion is that if you are pro-life, and you have a Renua candidate locally, find out if they back the Eighth Amendment and if they do, then consider giving them a vote"
http://www.independent.ie/opinion/columnists/david-quinn/prolife-supporters-must-consider-voting-for-their-local-renua-candidate-34345460.html

Or not.

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#1299 08-01-2016 1:37pm
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Love this bit: "I think a big part of the answer lies in the nature of our media. They control the public discourse" - he says, speaking through his media platform......

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#1300 08-01-2016 1:45pm
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Nodin wrote: »

"My suggestion is that if you are pro-life, and you have a Renua candidate locally, find out if they back the Eighth Amendment and if they do, then consider giving them a vote"
http://www.independent.ie/opinion/columnists/david-quinn/prolife-supporters-must-consider-voting-for-their-local-renua-candidate-34345460.html

Or not.

A thumbs up from Iona. What more could ReNua candidates want.

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#1301 08-01-2016 3:14pm
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Nodin wrote: »

"My suggestion is that if you are pro-life, and you have a Renua candidate locally, find out if they back the Eighth Amendment and if they do, then consider giving them a vote"
http://www.independent.ie/opinion/columnists/david-quinn/prolife-supporters-must-consider-voting-for-their-local-renua-candidate-34345460.html

Or not.

Of course I'm pro-life. But I won't be voting Renua, David, because I'm pro-choice.

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The Catholic "Democrats" and Christian Solidarity Party must be throwing a tantrum because they weren't mentioned. :pac:

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Himself and Breda have been in election mode for a while now. Expect more of this, and on the airwaves because a small little think tank that produces no original research, has no influence on Irish discourse, at all...

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#1305 08-01-2016 6:39pm
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No, but expect plenty of columns about anti-Catholic Labour and FG destroying the social fabric of society, or some such.

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Fred Swanson wrote: »

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I would very much hope they'll at least be filling out their lobbying returns though. Look forward to seeing that

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But they're a charity, yez cynical shower.

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They are treading a fine line between being lobbyists and being a charity.
Michael Nugent knows more about this issue than most, he explained it as...

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The Litigious One has taken time out of his busy day to tell us why Bowie was bad and we should feel bad: http://www.ionainstitute.ie/index.php?id=4245

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Without art and boundary pushing where would we be?

The Middle Ages and Dark ages spring to mind!

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#1312 16-01-2016 1:51pm
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PopePalpatine wrote: »

The Litigious One has taken time out of his busy day to tell us why Bowie was bad and we should feel bad: http://www.ionainstitute.ie/index.php?id=4245

He really is a nasty, nasty man.

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Ah, so that's his effort at balance, is it? He really has a peculiar fixation with liberalism/liberals.

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#1314 16-01-2016 7:36pm
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The Black Oil wrote: »

Ah, so that's his effort at balance, is it? He really has a peculiar fixation with liberalism/liberals.

He is the spirit of Miserable Ireland I grew up with. Ban music, ban movies, don't let stuff on TV, whinge about everything new as if it was to blame for ills known since written history began. Women who have sex are judged, women who conform to 19th century notions of "niceness" praised, wanting conformity to notions and ideals that should have been flushed down the jacks many years ago.

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What is with the rant about David Bowie? Hideous, nasty, spiteful, hateful little twerp! Bowie was brilliant and magical. In fact Quinn is right in one respect, everything about Bowie, and everything Bowie stood for, is the exact, polar opposite of him, and the hate and prejudice that he represents.

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#1316 16-01-2016 10:40pm
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Kiwi in IE wrote: »

What is with the rant about David Bowie? Hideous, nasty, spiteful, hateful little twerp! Bowie was brilliant and magical. In fact Quinn is right in one respect, everything about Bowie, and everything Bowie stood for, is the exact, polar opposite of him, and the hate and prejudice that he represents.

And then Quinn has the cheek to complain when someone paints him in a less than rosy light and demand money and apologies.

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#1317 17-01-2016 12:54am
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lazygal wrote: »

And then Quinn has the cheek to complain when someone paints him in a less than rosy light and demand money and apologies.

You can't libel the dead- he knows the rules

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Next week in Iona-land: Why we hate Alan Rickman.

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The Black Oil wrote: »

Next week in Iona-land: Why we hate Alan Rickman.

Alan Rickman was a good actor, but he ****ed around with witchcraft like new liberalism does which leads to cancer.

Also Im being censored because the liberal media.

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#1320 17-01-2016 5:59pm
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He'll probably follow Milo Yiannopoulus's lead and give out about how Rickman supported feminism.

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#1321 17-01-2016 10:17pm
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The Randy Riverbeast wrote: »

Alan Rickman was a good actor, but he ****ed around with witchcraft like new liberalism does which leads to cancer.

Also Im being censored because the liberal media.

As Alan Rickman put on a play re Rachel Corrie (a young American activist killed by the IDF), he may yet come in for some remark, Quinn being fairly rabidly pro-Israel. He tends to keep that and his other less salubrious notions to twitter, for some reason.

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