Stella O'Malley on the cowardice of the Irish media

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Really blistering article from Stella O'Malley on the failure of the Irish media (particularly the Irish Times and RTE) to report on the trans issue. It's in the Irish Catholic (one of the few publications in Ireland that will run these type of articles).

It's a familiar and depressing tale of capitulation by organisations following bullying by trans activists. The Irish Times is now in a reflective mood about Woke 1.0, and Stella isn't having it.

Not sure if those on X will be able to read this. Are there any alternatives to Nitter?

https://x.com/stellaomalley3/status/2095532646839271615

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I admire Stella so much.

It’s readable on X, she’s posted screenshots of the print.

Agree, she is great.

Thanks, I just wasn't sure if anyone without an X account would be able to read it.

So the great panjandrums of ' liberal ' media have been outflanked on women's rights by the Irish Catholic. Who'da thunk it?

I’ve some admiration for the RC Church, despite all the obvious. I was v impressed, when I married a catholic, at the questions I was asked by the priests, like was I happy, sure, not being coerced, was I pregnant and if so did I know that didn’t mean I had to be married - there was a leaflet on this - I could have the child single and get support from the church and the child be welcomed… my fiancé wasn’t even a regular churchgoer.

The older I get, the more sides there seem to everything.

DH and I were asked to attend an RC pre-marriage course which actually asked lots of great questions. For example, we were asked to discuss how we would approach one of us wanting to move home for a new job and the other not wanting to do so. I also remember being asked to discuss which one of us would clean the toilet. The point was to get us communicating with each other, and one of the couples subsequently broke off their wedding as a direct result of the course. Which is sort of a good thing, I guess.

'The Catholic Church in Ireland' has always been a multifaceted thing - the bishops in their palaces shuffling child abusing priests around from one parish to another, the claustrophobic and frighteningly powerful hold on people's minds and behaviour, the cruelty against children in institutions, the unhealthy yoking together of state and church on both sides of the border, 'A Protestant state for a Protestant people' [James Craig] in Northern Ireland, a more-or-less Catholic state for a mostly Catholic people in the Republic.

And yet, the 1937 Irish constitution was careful to guarantee protection and freedom to all religions, including the non-Catholic ones that had been used as a stick to beat the Irish for centuries [and - significantly in Europe in the 1930s - specifically guarantees the rights of the Jewish community].

The Irish Catholic church isn't just the bishops in their palaces and the abusive clergymen: it was the comfort and strength of a despised people through centuries of cruel and violent oppression; it is also social justice campaigners and activists and do-ers, like Sister Stanislaus and Brother Kevin, it was the [mostly] nuns who nursed and taught and inspired and helped the outcasts of society - who were, yes it is true, outcast by the other parts of the Church, but many of them devoted their lives sincerely to keeping heads above water, when the impoverished new state could not afford a safety net of benefits.

It is the Liberation Theology priests who were silenced by the Vatican, the trendy-Leftie clergy trying desperately to be 'relevant' to the youth, and it is also the people who queued to see the relics of St Therese 'on tour'.

It has never been a monolith, it has always evoked mixed feelings in lapsed-Catholic-atheists like myself, so if the Catholic press is now one of the few parts of the media open to sex-realist thought - it's just another quirk in the relationship...

It's unfortunate, because it reinforces the erroneous association of gender critical/sex realism with Christianity and 'the right', but... what can you do?

I agree that Stella O'Malley is great, and she is another sex realist/GC woman who has suffered for her beliefs - she used to be a regular, popular and respected media contributor, but I doubt if the phone rings much these days...

Billboard Chris has spoken about his visit to the UN and the discussions he had there. The Catholic Church and Iran are strange bedfellows but we are living in strange times.

Ireland has drunk deeply of the koolaid

Do you think it has, or is it only in certain circles? I've not lived in Ireland for years. My family back home (not in a city) have no idea about any of this. They are very much live and let live, but I can say categorically that they would not be ok with men breastfeeding or with men and boys playing in women's GAA. I think lot of this stuff goes under the radar.

Also, the Irish Examiner gets a lot of criticism for unquestioningly embracing woke. My dad reads it religiously because it's still the Cork Examiner to him, but he is definitely not woke 😂 I must ask him about it.

I think it’s a response to decades of dogmatic control by the Church. But they have just swapped one dogma for the new woke dogma.

Paddy O’Gorman speaks on You Tube about amount of government subsidy the whole media industry in Ireland receives and how the industry thus peddles the government propaganda. It’s very interesting from an academic perspective- not so much from a free media perspective.