American journalist Mary Ellen Synon, now living in Ireland, lost her regular column in an Irish national newspaper when she described the Paralympics as "grotesque"
"In the article, she wrote: 'It is time to suggest that these so-called Paralympics . . . are - well, one hesitates to say "grotesque". One will only say "perverse"…Surely physical competition is about finding the best - the fastest, strongest, highest, all that. It is not about finding someone who can wobble his way around a track in a wheelchair, or who can swim from one end of a pool to the other by Braille.'[7] She advised the disabled and blind to 'play to your competitive advantage' and added: 'In other words, Stephen Hawking shows his wisdom by staying out of the three-legged race.'"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Ellen_Synon

Last heard of was on a radio interview in Kerry, when she claimed that it was not just a right for all rural Ireland dwellers to carry arms "to protect themselves and their property, but their duty"
This was around the time that an Irish farmer was acquitted after he had (unquestionably) severely beaten and then shot to death an unarmed and badly injured Traveller, while he was lying on the ground. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_John_Ward
Funny old world
Jim Carroll