Recession turns Limerick village into Father Ted set
The Holy Stump of Rathkeale discovered!
The Holy Stump of Rathkeale
Straight out of a Father Ted script, people in Rathkeale, Co. Limerick are now worshiping a tree stump.
According to a local interviewed on ‘Morning Ireland’ this morning, over 400 people spent up to 2am praying at the stump, which, according to local shopkeeper Séamus Hogan:
“shows a clear outline of Our Lady”.
He goes on to say
“…it’s bringing people together from young and old to black and white, Protestant and Catholic, to say a few prayers…”
Worshiping tree stumps…? Protestants praying at an apparition of the virgin Mary…? (Have I missed something or has Mary snuck into the Church of Ireland?)
Brian Cowan must be pretty pleased – this will at least distract people from the utter bollix his party has made of the country (at least in Rathkeale). They must be pissing themselves Europe!
- Irish Times story (Front Page, 9th July, 2009)
- Irish Independent story (National News, 9th July, 2009)
- Contact Séamus Hogan, 20 St. Mary’s Park, Rathkeale, Co. Limerick to sign the petition to save the Holy Stump of Rathkeale (over 2,000 signatures as off this morning!)
Five Lamps:
You missed the best quote of all, from the Times article
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A spokesman for the Limerick diocesan office said the “church’s response to phenomena of this type is one of great scepticism”.
“While we do not wish in any way to detract from devotion to Our Lady, we would also wish to avoid anything which might lead to superstition,” he said.
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Like believing that a piece of bread “mysteriously” turns into human flesh which the “Devoted” then consume is not “superstitious” ….
P.S. “They must be pissing themselves IN Europe!”
2009-07-09 09:48 UTCStyrer:
That man made gods and not the other way round is abundantly evidenced in shite like this, where pareidolia (a mis-firing of our evolutionarily evolved defence mechanism to be pattern-seeking) reminds us that we really are a bunch of pathetic bungling mammals. Spot on, whoever said: ‘we’re only a couple of chromosomes away from chimpanzees, and it fucking shows’.
Witless twats.
Styrer
2009-07-10 10:54 UTC