No quitten we're whelan on to chitchat 11

I've been following Frank Greaney (Newstalk court correspondent) on Twitter and it is like a sketch from Fr. Ted - you couldn't make it up.

It makes a fair mockery of the courts and the judicial system.

The lunatic should be locked up until he learns to have manners. Otherwise every defendant that’s in court should do the same thing and get their cases postponed and adjourned and whatever else.

Maybe so, it just goes to show that some people have no shame and also that our legal system is far too lenient.

The sad part about Enoch is there probably was a legitimate discussion worth having but he completely f**ked that up through pig headedness and stupidity, which seems very ironic considering how intelligent that family all are.

Who are these people? People missed their flights from Dublin Airport last weekend due to protesters. Port tunnel closed a few times due to the east wall protesters, they mustn't have jobs that they have time to be at that craic

He wasn't even going to be teaching that child, which makes it all the more weirder

There was a time when women working, voting, playing sport or even visiting a pub didn’t fit in with the orthodoxy.

Likewise for being gay, lesbian etc.

There’s no-one’s life any worse off but well over 50% of the population are better off now that these things do fit in with the current form of orthodoxy.

Times change, you either stay in the past or move on with them. I don’t even understand all of this non-binary and gender neutral stuff, maybe that’s more of a reflection on me than anything else, but if it’s what someone else wants for their life it won’t affect mine so the way I’d see it is let them at it.

My thoughts exactly

Maybe so, but if the bible bashers were protesting from a distance its similar. There does be bashers off the gender and gay people too in rallys and such that tend to harass their point across.

It's a funny world, but they won't annoy me personally, I'm a male and straight, and happy with the simple life.

Not as simple as that, he made a speech at mass where past and present teachers were along with students, all the students walked out and refused to go back in.

The bishop had to eventually stop him, he is just trying to stir trouble and get media attention.

It might be a good idea to stop reporting this bs

Your post proves exactly the point I was making so thank you.

You’re 100% right, people near 60 won’t remember a time when women weren’t allowed to do all those things. The same as todays teenagers and younger won’t remember a time when it was frowned upon and even illegal to be gay or lesbian. And possibly the babies being born today won’t remember a time when people were ridiculed and abused by teachers for being gender neutral. As I said in the post you replied to, times change and it’s up to people to change with them.

Burke has exactly the same latitude as everyone has and no-one was asking him to be anything he didn’t want to be

He was simply asked to have manners and courtesy by addressing a child in a certain way that they asked to be addressed. It was not going to affect his life in any way to do that and it’s a sad state of affairs when any teacher can’t to that. To be honest he’s more to be pitied than laughed at and I genuinely wouldn’t wish his mindset or attitude on anyone in this world as it must be a miserable life he leads.

I was visiting the grandparents at the weekend and my aunt was there. Her daughter is starting school next September and she (aunt) was fairly distraught at the whole trans/they/them thing and whats being planned on pushed in the schools while her daughter will be there. She was saying how kids cant be kids anymore and shes worried shell be reprimanded herself if she speaks up about what is being pushed on her daughter in the coming years. Shes by no means a religous woman whatsoever but reckons we were better off being harmless and having the catholic church brainwash us in the past than have the idea of voluntary castration being discussed in schools during a childs formative years. Burke was right to stand up for his beliefs, those who sacrifice there freedom for security deserve neither. To finish an old fella in work summed it up perfectly recently how come theres not one person he can think of in his locality on the the they/them wavelength compared to todays younger generation? Simple enough the idea was never in there heads ever. By the way hes not some backwards narrowminded fella who left home either the man has travelled the world over, spent time in indigenous cultures etc, probably one of the most liberal people i know and yet he can see its madness whats being pushed on kids these days.

Maybe if the media didn’t roll out an LGBTQ plus on every second ad and chat show that might help too.

I would consider myself fairly liberal. However don’t agree with all this . Ther is a group of kids in a school near here who define themselves as cats. They dress up with make up to make a cat face and a tie on tail. Did u ever hear such ducking nonsense.

allot of it is just looking for attention. I don’t agree with how Burke went about it but fed up of everything being pushed down people’s throats and if you don’t agree with the crowd your the problem.

For those who are saying let everyone be how they feel, fair enough. But it’s being highlighted non stop, pushed on people really. Every day there’s articles about it with no substance to the article only the fact someone has come out/gone trans etc.

if they want equality then they should get on with their lives without the need for their beliefs to be highlighted constantly. If people want to find them they will, especially with the way algorithms work now.

it is way too early to be talking about this to kids in primary school too. It’s just confusing them, and it’s sad really. I worry for my kids over the next few years