Online Presidential Debate

[3Crowns3Stars]

Anglican churches are catholic.
Just not Roman catholic.

 

[kh1152]

There is. They're largely catholics who have become disaffected with the Vatican and all it stands for, but retain essentially the same values. I'd say in Norris's case, his catholic church doesn't mind him being gay.

EDIT: here's the wikipedia version

Norris is Church of Ireland.

According to wiki:

"Like other Anglican churches it has retained elements of pre-Reformation practice and is episcopal in polity, while rejecting papal authority and incorporating many of the theological and liturgical reforms of the Reformation and the English Reformation in particular; in this regard the church formally identifies as both Catholic and Reformed, though people within the church may identify themselves more strongly as one or the other. Unlike most other churches of the Anglican Communion, however, for particular historical and cultural reasons the Church of Ireland is generally identified as being a Protestant church."

So Irish Protestants were Catholics all along????

Why didn't they just say so, look at all the fuss that could have been avoided........


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_Ireland

 

[delzer]

Michael D. Higgins has emerged as the overall winner in a Newstalk post-debate poll.

The Labour Candidate got 38% of the listener vote.

Sean Gallagher and Martin McGuinness both came away with 20%.

Meanwhile David Norris was 3rd with 11%.

Gay Mitchell of Fine Gael got 6% while Mary Davis was on 3%.

Dana Rosemary Scallon trailed with just 2% of the vote.

The poll was conducted in association with esri Ireland.
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The Labour supports were out in force. The poll is obviously flawed.

Bizzare. Michael D said absolutely nothing of consequence to win it by that much.

 

[CORKBHOY]

Lads, Michael D is 5/2 in Paddy Power. I just backed him. Gallagher is 1/4!

 

[3Crowns3Stars]

Lads, Michael D is 5/2 in Paddy Power. I just backed him. Gallagher is 1/4!

I'm not betting until I see the jockies.