>with a view to keeping her out of the country for ever.
Yeah a month in chokey for lobbing the gob will do that.
I think people forget sometimes how conservative Ireland was. Right up to the nineties.
Wonder what would of happened if it was 2 men kissing, probably more than one month of prison
It’s an absolute disgrace.
The Jezebel
Won’t somebody please think of the children
Why is a Dundalk court adjudicating on something that happened in Blackrock?
Edit: nm, it’s Blackrock co Louth.
Thanks Dev!
Some people on this island will look at you with a straight face and say Ireland is a worse country now than it was in the past
That article made me really angry. The absolute state of our country under the influence of the church. Thank God we have become a developed country, now her passport would raise an alert at the border check if she had an active warrant out.
These people would turn in their graves if they knew what goes on in the Blackrock church car park these days.
Down with this sort of thing!
About two decades ago, myself and the other half were teenagers and we were getting off with each other behind the church.
The priest just came along and said “hello!” cheerily to interrupt us.
Needless to say we legged it. I was traumatised thinking about the priest watching us kissing. At that time, given the choice, prison for a month might have been preferable.
Sure was over for dinner earlier with the in laws. They were like what are you going to do when the communion is on as our child is not making it. Bearing in mind that 1/2 the class is muslim I said sure we might take her to the Mosaic that day. Why would we need to celebrate a day that 1/3 of the class is doing. People are crazy.
The way they don’t name and shame the “boy friend”
I hope Iran and Afghanistan will eventually be free too.
Meanwhile the priests……
Went to a segregated school in the 60s you got battered silly for jus looking thru the fence and an old school thrashing for talking to a girl in the corridor. Glad my kids and grand weans never had to worry bout that sadistic educational system.
Wild considering what the priests get up to on church property. Fairly sure hetro kissing is much more biblical than child rape and sodomy
I hope everyone involved in the local vigilance commitee lived a life plagued by infected bleeding haemorroids.
It’s a good old yarn all the same, isn’t it?
“Did you know your na was barred from Ireland? Right troublemaker she was, back in the day!”
Wonder what the priests got fined for what they did with the kids?
A month in jail for a consensual kiss on church grounds or no time ever served in jail for raping and molesting children in church grounds up and down the country for decades. What women do is always a “scandal”
This girl was so incredibly lucky she left the country. Had she stayed or was Irish she would have suffered immensely.
The crime was public indecency, and the relevant law was section 18 of the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1935:
> Every person who shall commit, at or near and in sight of any place along which the public habitually pass as of right or by permission, any act in such a way as to offend modesty or cause scandal or injure the morals of the community shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall on summary conviction thereof be liable to a fine not exceeding two pounds or, at the discretion of the court, to imprisonment for any term not exceeding one month.
The section was amended in 1990 — to *increase* the penalties to £500 or six months’ imprisonment.
It was ruled unconstitutional in 2013:
> The offences of causing scandal and injuring the morals of the community are hopelessly vague and subjective in character and they intrinsically lend themselves to arbitrary and inconsistent application. No clear standard of the conduct which is prohibited by law is articulated thereby and s. 18 does not contain any clear principles and policies. In this respect the relevant provisions of s. 18 are manifestly unconstitutional
€130.74 is the equivalent of £2 in 1938
To give context to the fine – from an inflationary perspective, €2 in 1938 would be around €132 today.
But from an income perspective, €2.94 was the average weekly earning of industrial workers in 1938.
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>with a view to keeping her out of the country for ever.
Yeah a month in chokey for lobbing the gob will do that.
I think people forget sometimes how conservative Ireland was. Right up to the nineties.
Wonder what would of happened if it was 2 men kissing, probably more than one month of prison
It’s an absolute disgrace.
The Jezebel
Won’t somebody please think of the children
Why is a Dundalk court adjudicating on something that happened in Blackrock?
Edit: nm, it’s Blackrock co Louth.
Thanks Dev!
Some people on this island will look at you with a straight face and say Ireland is a worse country now than it was in the past
That article made me really angry. The absolute state of our country under the influence of the church. Thank God we have become a developed country, now her passport would raise an alert at the border check if she had an active warrant out.
These people would turn in their graves if they knew what goes on in the Blackrock church car park these days.
Down with this sort of thing!
About two decades ago, myself and the other half were teenagers and we were getting off with each other behind the church.
The priest just came along and said “hello!” cheerily to interrupt us.
Needless to say we legged it. I was traumatised thinking about the priest watching us kissing. At that time, given the choice, prison for a month might have been preferable.
Sure was over for dinner earlier with the in laws. They were like what are you going to do when the communion is on as our child is not making it. Bearing in mind that 1/2 the class is muslim I said sure we might take her to the Mosaic that day. Why would we need to celebrate a day that 1/3 of the class is doing. People are crazy.
The way they don’t name and shame the “boy friend”
I hope Iran and Afghanistan will eventually be free too.
Meanwhile the priests……
Went to a segregated school in the 60s you got battered silly for jus looking thru the fence and an old school thrashing for talking to a girl in the corridor. Glad my kids and grand weans never had to worry bout that sadistic educational system.
Wild considering what the priests get up to on church property. Fairly sure hetro kissing is much more biblical than child rape and sodomy
I hope everyone involved in the local vigilance commitee lived a life plagued by infected bleeding haemorroids.
It’s a good old yarn all the same, isn’t it?
“Did you know your na was barred from Ireland? Right troublemaker she was, back in the day!”
Wonder what the priests got fined for what they did with the kids?
A month in jail for a consensual kiss on church grounds or no time ever served in jail for raping and molesting children in church grounds up and down the country for decades. What women do is always a “scandal”
This girl was so incredibly lucky she left the country. Had she stayed or was Irish she would have suffered immensely.
The crime was public indecency, and the relevant law was section 18 of the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1935:
> Every person who shall commit, at or near and in sight of any place along which the public habitually pass as of right or by permission, any act in such a way as to offend modesty or cause scandal or injure the morals of the community shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall on summary conviction thereof be liable to a fine not exceeding two pounds or, at the discretion of the court, to imprisonment for any term not exceeding one month.
The section was amended in 1990 — to *increase* the penalties to £500 or six months’ imprisonment.
It was ruled unconstitutional in 2013:
> The offences of causing scandal and injuring the morals of the community are hopelessly vague and subjective in character and they intrinsically lend themselves to arbitrary and inconsistent application. No clear standard of the conduct which is prohibited by law is articulated thereby and s. 18 does not contain any clear principles and policies. In this respect the relevant provisions of s. 18 are manifestly unconstitutional
€130.74 is the equivalent of £2 in 1938
To give context to the fine – from an inflationary perspective, €2 in 1938 would be around €132 today.
But from an income perspective, €2.94 was the average weekly earning of industrial workers in 1938.