150 years of the irish times

(Episode Four: Abort The Mission, I Mean The Babies.)
All this week we've been celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Irish Times, a newspaper known to friends and foes alike as The Oul Bat of D'Olier Street. It has sometimes been difficult to pick out the best moments from the Irish Times' illustrious history. Whether it was rooting for the Russians throughout the Cold War, justifying dictatorships in Africa, or simply trying to destroy the Catholic church as a platform for public influence in Ireland, the Irish Times has never been shy about manipulating the news for its own ends. At heart the Irish Times is an ideologically driven deeply dishonourable entity. How its particular ideological posture arose, has never been adequately explained. In the 1980's an editor sought to secure full disclosure from his journalists of any political movements they might have been a part of. He was not successful. One wonders why he bothered. Actually we know why. From the 1980's the dogs in the street were aware of someone or something pursuing societal agendas for Ireland from within the Irish Times. Was the Irish Times a front for the Soviet KGB? Was it infiltrated by Free Masonic elements? Were staff members and editors simply a collection of intellectual duds? The answer to all these questions is of course yes.

Favourite Memories of The Irish Times: Several decades ago, a teenage girl called Ann Lovett gave birth to a child in a field near a church. Ann Lovett and the baby died. The media groups of Ireland, television, radio and newspapers, seized upon Ann Lovett's death and attempted to construe it as an indictment of the Catholic church. The Irish Times was to the fore in hijacking this young woman for its own propaganda against the Christian faith. The Irish Times ran copious coverage from its various dimlight feature writers suggesting that Ann Lovett's death was to be laid at the door of believing Christians. On RTE radio and television, the coverage was similarly manipulated. The most cretinous among our political classes emerged to sneer at Christianity. A politician called Nuala Fennell, a particular favourite with the Irish Times, was most vociferous in her castigation of the Catholic church and of Christian values generally. One ray of light emerged during that dark time. A teenage friend of Ann Lovett's was being interviewed on the radio. The RTE interviewer dealing with Ann Lovett's teenage friend had been disappointed that the friend had made no remarks criticising Christian values but had simply shed tears for the death of Ann Lovett. Hoping to gain an anti Catholic sound bite, the RTE interviewer asked Ann Lovett's teenage friend what she thought of Nuala Fennell. Ann Lovett's friend replied spontaneously: "Nuala Fennell is a silly bitch." It was the most insightful remark ever uttered on RTE radio or television. That remark came on a morning news programme. RTE edited it out from all later transmissions. Not bleeped it out. Censored it. It was as though it had never been uttered. The Irish Times certainly didn't care to report it. But Nuala Fennell is indeed a silly bitch. And so are they all, all silly bitches. Independent Newspapers. RTE. And of course The Irish Times. Between them they've been attempting to destroy the Catholic church for forty years. And look what they've done to Ireland. Look what they've given us. The violent society. Drug dealers in every primary and secondary school. Hospitals where nursies murder patients. More and more children being murdered by their parents. Strange that. The Irish Times had told us that if we legalised divorce, there would be less violence in the home. Very strange indeed. But keep looking at what we've become. The church is indeed marginalised. Promiscuity is a norm. Suicide is off the scale. Judge Liberal refuses to send criminals to jail. Social Worker Liberal refuses to remove children from violent homes until the kids are dead. Prison Warden Liberal (I mean John Lonnergan) lets the crims out at weekends so that they can kill and kill again. The McCarthy Dundon crime gang has taken over the city of Limerick. The number of crime gangs carving up Dublin is too high to name them all. And a nifty little social work outfit called Al Qaeda is now using Ireland as a forward operations and planning base for its missions against the United Kingdom and the USA. Seriously though Irish Times. Seriously. You're doing a brilliant job.