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Post by guillaume on Jan 27, 2011 11:13:47 GMT
Hi, I have continually tried to register on this site, several times in fact. Every time I do it tells me I must wait to be approved by the administrator. I cannot post on any other board but this one for some reason. This has been going on for months now. Is there anyone administrating on this site? If so could someone ask them to look at the section where new members are awaiting approval as I must not be the only one in this situation? I have never experienced such a long wait for approval on any other site before so I can only assume there is some kind of problem with either the admin system or the administrator is never around or not covering all his/her responsibilities? Could someone please pass on the message? Thanks...... God bless……. Hibernicus manages this Forum. Send a private message. To be honest, he is more a moderator than an administrator of this forum. As a moderator, he is great. As a manager he is .... not that good. Because most of the threads need a revamp and the whole site itself. We need to attract more souls, but Hiber still post copy and paste of blogs and articles and do not take into consideration a lad who is concerned and had been seen around 1 million times on other site.
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Post by guillaume on Jan 27, 2011 11:18:08 GMT
Keep an eye on the election coverage and decide for yourself. I wish the pro-life groups would try listing better and worse candidates. I appreciate that the whip system means this has limited value, but voting to keep out (say) bacik should help. That's crap : no clear answer at all.
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Post by Brid from Kildare on Jan 27, 2011 20:08:51 GMT
Hibernicus manages this Forum. Send a private message. To be honest, he is more a moderator than an administrator of this forum. As a moderator, he is great. As a manager he is .... not that good. Because most of the threads need a revamp and the whole site itself. We need to attract more souls, but Hiber still post copy and paste of blogs and articles and do not take into consideration a lad who is concerned and had been seen around 1 million times on other site. Thanks for the reply. As I have not been accepted as a full member I cannot PM anyone. I can only post in the area called "Not Just for Catholics" for some reason. Maybe part of the reason your forum needs a re-vamp is because when people like me attepmt to join, there is no one monitoring this and they get fed up waiting to be accepted? Anyway..... could someone pass on the message for me? Thank you!
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Post by guillaume on Jan 30, 2011 9:10:26 GMT
Hibernicus manages this Forum. Send a private message. To be honest, he is more a moderator than an administrator of this forum. As a moderator, he is great. As a manager he is .... not that good. Because most of the threads need a revamp and the whole site itself. We need to attract more souls, but Hiber still post copy and paste of blogs and articles and do not take into consideration a lad who is concerned and had been seen around 1 million times on other site. Well I am sure Hibernicus had read this post and will resolve this issue quickly. Thanks for the reply. As I have not been accepted as a full member I cannot PM anyone. I can only post in the area called "Not Just for Catholics" for some reason. Maybe part of the reason your forum needs a re-vamp is because when people like me attepmt to join, there is no one monitoring this and they get fed up waiting to be accepted? Anyway..... could someone pass on the message for me? Thank you!
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Post by Brid from Kildare on Jan 30, 2011 11:02:33 GMT
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Post by guillaume on Jan 31, 2011 8:46:13 GMT
Sorry, I was saying that Hibernicus had certainly read your post and will answer you soon. Let me know
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Post by hibernicus on Jan 31, 2011 12:05:22 GMT
Brid's account is now approved. Sorry - didn't realise this was necessary
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Post by Askel McThurkill on Feb 9, 2011 12:13:53 GMT
We've got off the point a bit (a lot) here. I wish Guillaume, whom I assume is a naturalised Irish citizen and who therefore can vote, would be a bit more respectful towards the moderator.
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Post by shane on Feb 9, 2011 12:50:24 GMT
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Post by hibernicus on Feb 10, 2011 10:39:07 GMT
The IRISH TIMES reports eight Christian Solidarity candidates standing. In their constituency profiles today Michael Larkin is listed as CS in Dublin North West (no further information given) and Manus Mac Meanmain in Meath East. Manus MAc Meanmain is one of their stalwarts, but he usually contests local and dail elections in inner-city Dublin. Why has he moved to Meath? Richard Greene has a piece in the new CATHOLIC VOICE (6 february issue) appealing for support for a new Christian party and in particular for the CSP. He suggests the Polish Solidarity movement as a model. The problem with this is that Polish Solidarity was opposing a dictatorship upheld by force, whereas our beloved politicians were elected by ourselves, that its alliance with the Church was at least partly due to the fact that the church provided the only available civic space under the dictatorship, and that Solidarity contained many different ideological currents (ranging from Catholic-nationalist to reform-marxist) which is why it splintered after the communist regime fell. We need to start at the grassroots and work upwards, talk of a spontaneous national moilisation gets nowhere and actually hinders real progress. The IRISH DAILY MAIL had a piece a few days ago on how Lucinda Creighton the FG TD took a leading role in opposing the last abortion referendum as part of a TCD student group appropriately called TARTS (Trinity Against Referendum - not sure what the second T stood for). Scratch her then- I think we can be fairly sure they were not opposing it as insufficiently restrictive.
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Post by hibernicus on Feb 10, 2011 11:10:14 GMT
According to Elections Ireland, these are the Christian Solidarity candidates Dun Laoghaire - Daire Fitzgerald Dublin South - Jane Murphy Dublin South Central - Colm Callanan Dublin North West - Michael Larkin Dublin Central - Paul O'Loughlin Cork North Central - Harry Rea Meath West - Manus Mac Meanmain Limerick City - Conor O'Donoghue electionsireland.org/results/general/31stdail/candidates.cfm
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Post by Alaisdir Ua Séaghdha on Feb 10, 2011 12:17:51 GMT
The IRISH TIMES reports eight Christian Solidarity candidates standing. In their constituency profiles today Michael Larkin is listed as CS in Dublin North West (no further information given) and Manus Mac Meanmain in Meath East. Manus MAc Meanmain is one of their stalwarts, but he usually contests local and dail elections in inner-city Dublin. Why has he moved to Meath? I know Manus slightly. He is Dublin, but he has been living in Enfield, Co Meath with his family for the past several years (he's a relatively young man). However, he's hardly the one to incrementally build up a grass roots organisation. None of them are - individually or collectively.
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Post by humphrey on Feb 10, 2011 22:00:51 GMT
One of the features of this election is the plethora of independent candidates. From a socially conservative point of view they are a mixed bag. They all present themselves as reformers. On one hand you have the likes of John McGuirk who worked with Declan Ganley during his euro campaigns. www.youtube.com/watch?v=siA4E2Ve21U He is associated with the National Forum. He's conservative economically (although he was at pains to say that he is not neo-liberal) and socially. On the other hand you have independents like Stephen Donnelly who is pro choice. Or Dylan Haskins, another independent with a visually striking campaign. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLdHZ5LNIhs He wants "full equality" for gay people. You see civil partnership is an intolerable inequality for most gay rights campaigners. Nothing but full civil marriage will do. And I would guess that many of these independents are pro choice.I get the feeling that many of them are in the PD gene pool. Just because they have right wing economics doesn't mean they are friendly to Church. And what about political reform? Should Catholics support it? A new constitution would be written in secular platitudes. And I would bet that the need for referendums would be reduced. Different forms of list system are proposed in order to provide expertise. But I don't still like the idea of giving political parties more power. This election is seen by everyone as a chance for major changes. But will these reforms mean the end the last vestiges of Ireland's Catholic ethos? I know that Catholic Ireland has a mixed record but do we really want a purely secular state that actively rejects traditional Irish ethos?
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Post by hibernicus on Feb 11, 2011 14:20:33 GMT
Right-wing economic views are not synonymous with Catholicism - not at all. I would have supported an old-style Catholic Labourite like Frank Prendergast, Michael Pat Murphy or Sean Treacy - a breed now more or less politically extinct - before I would support the PDs. Proposals for a new constitution should IMHO be resisted tooth and nail as it would be full of politically correct nostrums. (This is not a specifically Catholic position - I know an elderly Protestant who opposes any wholesale replacement of the 1937 Constitution on the grounds that it safeguards certain rights - such as the right to send your child to a school of your choice - which might be lost in a new text.) A list system is morally neutral - depending on the way it was framed it might actually make it easier for a small Christian party to get TDs - if it could get its act together, which on the basis of events since 1992 it probably couldn't. The need for referenda is pretty much a nullity as is because the constituion makes it very difficult to secure one if the politicla parties combine to squeeze it out. (We only got the Pro-Life Amendment because a major party was prepared to take it up, and even then they insisted on a wording which caused serious difficulties - though I suspect certain Supreme Court justices would have found the way they did in the X Case even if the archangel Gabriel had drawn up the wording.) Here is a depressing thread from Politics.ie, commenting on a David Quinn column which points out that Labour are in favour of legalised abortion. It is depressin gbecause of the vehemence and bigotry of the pro-abortion sentiments expressed by many (not all) of the posters. www.politics.ie/elections/151736-vote-labour-vote-abortion.html
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Post by hibernicus on Feb 11, 2011 14:24:38 GMT
I must say that this post is in one sense refreshing since it shows a basic desire to protect human life surviving the loss of religious faith - but I suspect such views will wane as it sinks into a secularising provincial Ireland how intimately the agenda of "sexual liberation" is linked to and requires abortion. (The fact that this poster is gay may, oddly, have helped to insulate him from this since his vices do not involve the possibility of "unwanted pregnancy".)
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Thanks Mr. Quinn , the best propogandist Labour has had in years. Any hope that Dana might cut loose shortly ?
I disagree. Quinn clearly comes across as a right wing fundamentalist homophobic bigot and no doubt he is. As such I just ignore his rantings on everything from gay marriage to catholic doctrine as I would those of any fool. He does however raise the issue of Labour's support for abortion and this is significant. As a hugely disaffected FF member, I was committed to working for and voting for Labour for well over a year now. Because of their support for abortion, I will now be voting for FG and FF while Labour won't be getting as much as a preference. I'm young, gay, liberal, anti-death penalty, campaigned for divorce and have zero interest in anything the catholic church has to say. Abortion, however, is a red line issue for me and many like me. If you think that absolutely all pro-life people are bible bashing bigots then you are making a big mistake. Outside of the Pale, this matters, and Labour's vote will suffer. END
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