On a kinder, gentler and certainly less pissed-off note than my previous few posts, it has very belatedly come to my attention that Ireland is reverting to the Middle Ages. No doubt they’ll soon be ripping out the paved roads and returning them to the mud pits of yore and returning Ireland to the feudal system.

After all, they might as well, having passed a blasphemy law. “It defines blasphemy as “publishing or uttering matter that is grossly abusive or insulting in relation to matters sacred by any religion, thereby intentionally causing outrage among a substantial number of adherents of that religion, with some defenses permitted”.”

Got that? Now get this: The fine for violating the new law, which was passed in July, means that blasphemy in Ireland is now a crime punishable with a fine of up to €25,000 (£22,000).
For those of us who use US dollars, that’s about $34,000. So if you say “Islam is a crock of horsecrap” out loud in public, that’s not just your opinion, to which you were formerly entitled, now it’s blasphemy. If you should be overheard discussing the facts of Mohammad’s pedophilia and general insanity, that’s blasphemy!

Good job, you Irish. When do you start conducting public hangings and letting pigs run free in the streets again?