Some years ago Ireland was abuzz with discussion on rural crime when a farmer, finding a Traveller trespassing on his property, executed him - he wounded him with a shotgun, beat him around the head with a fence-pole as he lay on the ground, then went into the house, reloaded his shotgun and administered the coup de grâce, killing him.
Despite the fact that there was no question of his having done this, he was found not guilty and freed
Shortly after this, an Irish American journalist, Mary Ellen Synon, then living in Kerry, was interviewed on Kerry Radio about America's gun laws.
She said that it was the duty of all rural dwellers to own and be prepared to use a gun.
Synon had made her name earlier by describing the Sydney Paralympics as "grotesque".
Her statement, "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."
Yet we are supposed to imagine that there is some kind of equivalence in value between what the cripples do and what the truly fastest, strongest, highest do. There isn't", lost her her job as a regular contributor to The Irish Times, and several other lucrative appointments.
perverse".
it was revealed later that she was nicknamed "the Bonk of England" by tabloid newspapers in 1995 after she disclosed that she and Rupert Pennant-Rea had had sex on the governor's dressing room floor at the Bank.
Wonder if she ever 'met' Donald Trump !!
People who advocate the ownership and use of guns seem to have come out of a certain mold
Jim Carroll